Thomas Bradwardine: A View of Time and a Vision of Eternity in Fourteenth-Century Thought

Thomas Bradwardine: A View of Time and a Vision of Eternity in Fourteenth-Century Thought

Author: Edith Wilks Dolnikowski

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 900445182X

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This volume evaluates Thomas Bradwardine's view of time as a mathematical, philosophical and theological concept within the context of ancient and medieval discussions of the problem of time. The book begins with an historiographical analysis of Bradwardine's mathematical and theological works, followed by an examination of the problem of time in classical, early medieval and thirteenth-century texts. Next, a series of chapters surveys Bradwardine's view of time as it related to proportionality, contingency, continuity and predestination. A final chapter establishes Bradwardine's place among fourteenth-century natural philosophers and theologians. As it uses a wide range of Bradwardine's writings, this book is able to show how Bradwardine's philosophical and theological views converged. This study is especially useful for historians of late medieval science, philosophy and theology.


Concepts of Space in Greek Thought

Concepts of Space in Greek Thought

Author: Keimpe Algra

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9004320873

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Concepts of Space in Greek Thought studies ancient Greek theories of physical space and place, in particular those of the classical and Hellenistic period. These theories are explained primarily with reference to the general philosophical or methodological framework within which they took shape. Special attention is paid to the nature and status of the sources. Two introductory chapters deal with the interrelations between various concepts of space and with Greek spatial terminology (including case studies of the Eleatics, Democritus and Epicurus). The remaining chapters contain detailed studies on the theories of space of Plato, Aristotle, the early Peripatetics and the Stoics. The book is especially useful for historians of ancient physics, but may also be of interest to students of Aristotelian dialectic, ancient metaphysics, doxography, and medieval and early modern physics.


Nicole Oresme, Questiones super Physicam (Books I-VII)

Nicole Oresme, Questiones super Physicam (Books I-VII)

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 9004250255

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Oresme's commentary is one of the most relevant documents of the discussions at Paris University in the midst of the 14th Century. Original solutions concerning the main philosophical issues are associated with sharp criticism of the realist and nominalist positions.


Ockham and Ockhamism

Ockham and Ockhamism

Author: William J. Courtenay

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9004168303

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Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockhama (TM)s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris around 1340, and the legacy of Ockhamist thought into the sixteenth century.


John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam)

John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam)

Author: John Buridan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9004322353

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John Buridan (d. ca. 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris, producing commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. His Questions Commentary on the eight books of Aristotle's Physics is the most important witness to Buridan's teachings in the field of natural philosophy. The commentary was widely read during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume presents the first critical edition of books III and IV of the final redaction of Buridan's Questions Commentary on the Physics. The critical edition of the Latin text is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions.