Medieval Philosophy : A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2.
Title:
Medieval Philosophy : A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2.
Author:
Kenny, Anthony.
ISBN:
9780191524981
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1 online resource (353 pages)
Series:
New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 ; v.v. 2
New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2
Contents:
Contents -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides -- Augustine on History -- Augustine's Two Cities -- The Consolations of Boethius -- The Greek Philosophy of Late Antiquity -- Philosophy in the Carolingian Empire -- Muslim and Jewish Philosophers -- Avicenna and his Successors -- Anselm of Canterbury -- Abelard -- Averroes -- Maimonides -- 2. The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance -- Robert Grosseteste and Albert the Great -- St Bonaventure -- Thomas Aquinas -- The Afterlife of Aquinas -- Siger of Brabant and Roger Bacon -- Duns Scotus -- William Ockham -- The Reception of Ockham -- The Oxford Calculators -- John Wyclif -- Beyond Paris and Oxford -- Renaissance Platonism -- Renaissance Aristotelianism -- 3. Logic and Language -- Augustine on Language -- The Logic of Boethius -- Abelard as Logician -- The Thirteenth-Century Logic of Terms -- Propositions and Syllogisms -- Aquinas on Thought and Language -- Analogy and Univocity -- Modistic Logic -- Ockham's Mental Language -- Truth and Inference in Ockham -- Walter Burley and John Wyclif -- Three-Valued Logic at Louvain -- 4. Knowledge -- Augustine on Scepticism, Faith, and Knowledge -- Augustine on Divine Illumination -- Bonaventure on Illumination -- Aquinas on Concept-Formation -- Aquinas on Faith, Knowledge, and Science -- The Epistemology of Duns Scotus -- Intuitive and Abstractive Knowledge in Ockham -- 5. Physics -- Augustine on Time -- Philoponus, Critic of Aristotle -- Natural Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century -- Actual and Potential Infinity -- 6. Metaphysics -- Avicenna on Being, Essence, and Existence -- Aquinas on Actuality and Potentiality -- The Metaphysics of Duns Scotus -- Ockham's Reductive Programme -- Wyclif and Determinism -- 7. Mind and Soul -- Augustine on the Inner Life -- Augustine on the Will.
The Agent Intellect in Islamic Thought -- Avicenna on Intellect and Imagination -- The Psychology of Averroes -- Aquinas on the Senses and the Intellect -- Aquinas on the Will -- Scotus versus Aquinas -- Ockham versus Scotus -- Pomponazzi on the Soul -- 8. Ethics -- Augustine on How to be Happy -- Augustine on Lying, Murder, and Sex -- Abelard's Ethic of Intention -- Aquinas' Ethical System -- Aquinas as Moralist -- Scotus on Divine Law -- The Ethics of Ockham -- 9. God -- The God of Augustine -- Boethius on Divine Foreknowledge -- Negative Theology in Eriugena -- Islamic Arguments for God's Existence -- Anselm's Proof of God -- Omnipotence in Damiani and Abelard -- Grosseteste on Omniscience -- Aquinas on God's Eternal Knowledge and Power -- Aquinas' Proofs of God's Existence -- Duns Scotus' Metaphysical Proof of an Infinite Being -- Scotus, Ockham, and Valla on Divine Foreknowledge -- The Informed Ignorance of Nicholas of Cusa -- Chronology -- List of Abbreviations and Conventions -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance. The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of such great thinkers as Thomas. Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the. course of Western thought. - ;Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of the great schoolmen such as. Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. - ;from the reviews of the preceding volume..... This wonderful book . . . is not only an authoritative guide to the history of philosophy but also a compelling introduction to every major area of philosophical inquiry. . . . Kennys prose
is exceptionally clear . . . He conveys his rich subject matter with a light touch of which only the greatest of writers are capable. . . . This, combined with his breadth and depth of learning and philosophical sophistication, make reading this book. hugely rewarding. It is also worth mentioning that the book is beautifully illustrated . . . One is left eager for subsequent volumes and convinced that the intellectual cosmos is, indeed, boundlessly rich. - James Ladyman, Times Higher Education Supplement.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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