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Author: Tobias Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 110715538X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies medieval theories of free will, including explanations of how angels - that is, ideal agents - can choose evil.
Author: Tobias Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108916325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Tobias Hoffmann studies the medieval free will debate during its liveliest period, from the 1220s to the 1320s, and clarifies its background in Aristotle, Augustine, and earlier medieval thinkers. Among the wide range of authors he examines are not only well-known thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham, but also a number of authors who were just as important in their time and deserve to be rediscovered today. To shed further light on their theories of free will, Hoffmann also explores their competing philosophical explanations of the fall of the angels, that is, the hypothesis of an evil choice made by rational beings under optimal psychological conditions. As he shows, this test case imposed limits on tracing free choices to cognition. His book provides a comprehensive account of a debate that was central to medieval philosophy and continues to occupy philosophers today.
Author: John Marenbon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780521663991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) which shows that he was a far more constructive and wider-ranging thinker than has usually been supposed. It combines detailed historical discussion, based on published and manuscript sources, with philosophical analysis which aims to make clear Abelard's central arguments about the nature of things, language and the mind, and about morality. Although the book concentrates on these philosophical questions, it places them within their theological and wider intellectual context.
Author: Norman Kretzmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-05-28
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1139825097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.
Author: Tobias Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1107276403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.
Author: Robert Pasnau
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 1218
ISBN-13: 9781107675100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes the reader through developments in many and varied fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. Close attention is paid to the context of medieval philosophy, with discussions of the rise of the universities and developments in the cultural and linguistic spheres. A striking feature is the continuous coverage of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian material. There are useful biographies of the philosophers, and a comprehensive bibliography. The volumes illuminate a rich and remarkable period in the history of philosophy and will be the authoritative source on medieval philosophy for the next generation of scholars and students alike.
Author: Thomas Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521635639
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Author: Tobias Hoffmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-08-03
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9004183469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies medieval theories of angelology insofar as they made groundbreaking contributions to medieval philosophy. It centers on the period from Bonaventure to Ockham while also discussing some original positions by earlier thinkers.
Author: Meredith J. Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1107027950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance art and religion from Dante to the Counter-Reformation.
Author: Lawrence Nolan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 1642
ISBN-13: 1316380939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.
