Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World
Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World

Author: Richard C. Dales

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1989-11-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9004246673

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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: THE LEGACY FROM ANTIQUITY -- CHAPTER TWO: ERIUGENA AND HIS FOLLOWERS -- CHAPTER THREE: THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER FOUR: EXOTIC VIEWS -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER SIX: THE DECADE OF THE 1250S -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONDEMNATION OF 1270 AND ITS AFTERMATH -- CHAPTER NINE: THE CLIMAX OF THE CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER TEN: THE AFTERMATH OF THE CONDEMNATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY: OXFORD -- CHAPTER TWELVE: THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY: PARIS -- EPILOGUE -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX.

The Medieval Concept of Time
The Medieval Concept of Time

Author: Pasquale Porro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9004453199

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This volume examines the changing perceptions of time in the transition from the medieval debate to early modern philosophy. Some of the foremost contemporary experts try to weave the various strands of the topic into a methodological and doctrinal whole. The book consists of 21 studies (19 in English, 2 in French) subdivided into five main sections, entitled respectively The Late Antique Legacy, The Scholastic Debate, Late Scholasticism, Time and Medicine, Early Modern Philosophy. Themes discussed include the reception of Aristotle’s doctrine of time, the Augustinian and Neoplatonic heritage, the concepts of divine eternity and angelic duration, and the particular role attributed to time in medieval and early modern medicine. This collection of studies aims at offering a comprehensive historico-doctrinal analysis of one of the most fascinating topics in western intellectual history.

Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy

Author: Herbert A. Davidson

Publisher: Oneworld Academic

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780861542406

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This exhaustive study of medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for eternity, creation, and the existence of God classifies the proofs systematically, analyses and explains them, and traces their sources in Greek philosophy. Davidson pursues the penetration of some of these Islamic and Jewish arguments into medieval Christian philosophy and, in a few instances, all the way into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European philosophy. He attempts to treat every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for eternity, creation, and the existence of God which has philosophical character, disregarding only those that rest entirely on religious faith or fall below a minimum level of plausibility. Unique in both its classification of the proofs and its comprehensiveness, this will serve historians of philosophy, historians of ideas, and medievalists.

The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Contemporaries
The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Contemporaries

Author: Wissink

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-06-08

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9004452656

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This study forms part of a research programme aiming to interpret and evaluate the theology of Thomas Aquinas and the later reception of his theology. In particular, it deals with the reception of Aquinas' thinking about the eternity of the world by theologians at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century. De Grijs defends the thesis that Aquinas' main interest in De Aeternitate Mundi is not philosophical but theological; while Aertsen opposes this thesis and tries to demonstrate Aquinas' philosophical purposes by comparing his De Aeternitate Mundi with his De Potentia and by study of his concept of creation. Van Veldhuijsen sketches the difference between Aquinas and Bonaventure in this respect. M. Hoenen concentrates on the importance of William de la Mare's Correctorium fratris Thomae and of the Correctoria Corruptorii for our understanding of the history of the reception of the views of Aquinas. F. Thijssen discusses the criticism of the Oxford theologian Henry of Harclay (died 1317) of Aquinas' views on two central issues that are involved in an eternal world: the traversal of an infinity and the existence of unequal infinities. Van Veldhuijsen, finally investigates Aquinas' reception by Richard of Middleton.

On the Eternity of the World
On the Eternity of the World

Author: Saint Thomas (Aquinas)

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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"The translation of Aristotle's philosophical works into Latin in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries produced a crisis for Christian thinkers insofar as the Aristotelian writing seemed to offer demonstrative proof that the world has always existed without a beginning at some point finitely distant in the past. The present volume offers the reader three different responses to the Aristotelian doctrine of the eternity of the world: the radical Aristotelian views of Siger of Brabant contrasted with those of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure. The latter two both held creation in time, though Aquinas believed that the question could only be decided on the basis of revelation, while Bonaventure argued that creation in time could be proved by reason."--

Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350
Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350

Author: Mikko Posti

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9004429727

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In Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350 Mikko Posti presents a historical and philosophical study of the doctrine of divine providence in 13th- and 14th-century Latin philosophical theology.

De Aeternitate Mundi
De Aeternitate Mundi

Author: Proclus

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0520225546

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The first Argument, which survives in Arabic, is also included and makes this the only complete edition of On the Eternity of the World since antiquity.".

The Intellectual Life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages
The Intellectual Life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Author: Richard C. Dales

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9789004096226

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A connected account of European thought from the Patristic age through the mid-fourteenth century, and emphasizing educational systems, the interaction between the popular and elite cultures, and medieval humanism; with excellent interpretive chapters on science and philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of Humanism
The Oxford Handbook of Humanism

Author: Anthony B. Pinn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 0190921560

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While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent development. As a system of thought that values human needs and experiences over supernatural concerns, humanism has gained greater attention amid the rapidly shifting demographics of religious communities, especially in Europe and North America. This outlook on the world has taken on global dimensions as well, with activists, artists, and thinkers forming a humanistic response not only to traditional religion, but to the pressing social and political issues of the 21st century. With in-depth, scholarly chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Humanism aims to cover the subject by analyzing its history, its philosophical development, its influence on culture, and its engagement with social and political issues. In order to expand the field beyond more Western-focused works, the Handook discusses humanism as a worldwide phenomenon, with regional surveys that explore how the concept has developed in particular contexts. The Handbook also approaches humanism as both an opponent to traditional religion as well as a philosophy that some religions have explicitly adopted. By both synthesizing the field, and discussing how it continues to grow and develop, the Handbook promises to be a landmark volume, relevant to both humanism and the rapidly changing religious landscape.