| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy ; 6
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| Contents |
Cover; Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy: Volume 6; Copyright; Contents; Augustine on the Election of Jacob: A Philosophical Defense of Divine Predestination; 1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUGUSTINE'S CAUSAL ACCOUNT OF PREDESTINATION; 2. PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF AUGUSTINIAN PREDESTINATION: THE IDLE ARGUMENT AND THE MANIPULATION ARGUMENT; 3. AUGUSTINE ON THE ASYMMETRY OF HUMAN AGENCY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; The Reality of the Non-Existent Object of Thought: The Possible, the Impossible, and Mental Existence in Islamic Philosophy (eleventh-thirteenth centuries); 1. INTRODUCTION |
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2. MUʿTAZILITES' REALISM: OBJECTS OF THOUGHTS AND INTENTIONS3. THE "POSITIVE OF POSITIVE RULE" AND MENTAL EXISTENCE; 4. ASHʿARITES AND FAKHR AL-DĪN AL-RĀZĪ: MENTAL EXISTENCE AND PLATONIC FORMS; 5. THE IMPOSSIBLE: PARACONSISTENCY OR REDUCTIONISM; 6. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; "Signum est in praedicamento relationis": Roger Bacon's Semantics Revisited in the Light of His Relational Theory of the Sign; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. A READING HYPOTHESIS: THE RELATIONAL NATURE OF THE SIGN; a. The Two Semantic Relations; b. The Augustinian Background; 3. BACON'S SEMANTICS REVISITED |
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A.A Typology of Semantic Relationsb. Natural and ad placitum Relations between Words, Concepts, and Things; c. Transfers of Words and Re-Imposition; 4. UNDERLYING METAPHYSICS AND SEMANTIC ISSUES; a. Bacon's Theory of Relation; b. Semantic Issues: Bacon as a Critic of His Contemporaries; 5. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Is Anything in the Intellect that Was Not First in Sense?: Empiricism and Knowledge of the Incorporeal in Aquinas; 1. ACCESS AND CONCEPTUALIZING; a. Access; b. How Access Affects Conceptualizing; c. Are the Senses My Intellect's Gatekeepers? |
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2. SELF-AWARENESS AND OUR CONCEPT OF THE INCORPOREALa. Accessing the Incorporeal Intellect; b. Conceptualizing the Incorporeal? A Misconception; c. Conceptualizing a Kind of Being that is Not Corporeal; 3. HUMANS AND THE INCORPOREAL "ABOVE"; a. Central Intelligence Puzzles; b. The Two Kinds of Genus-Species Relationships; c. Situating the Human Intellect in the Scale of Intellectual Perfection; d. Puzzle 1 Solved: Composite Intellects Conceptualizing Simple Ones; e. Puzzles 2 & 3 Solved; 4. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources |
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Merciful Demand: Fraternal Correction as a Form of Blame1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ACCOUNTS OF FRATERNAL CORRECTION; a. From the Bible to the Thirteenth Century; b. The Augustinian Inheritance; c. Thirteenth-Century Innovations; d. The Stages of Correction; e. Omission of Correction; 3. MORAL ADDRESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND BLAME; 4. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Marguerite Porete and Godfrey of Fontaines: Detachable Will, Discardable Virtue, Transformative Love; 1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; 2. MARGUERITE'S REASONS; 3. BEYOND POLITICS; 4. DETACHABLE WILL; 5. DISCARDABLE VIRTUE |
| Summary |
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy' showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness, and will be an essential resource for anyone working in the area |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2018) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Medieval.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pasnau, Robert, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192561893 |
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0192561898 |
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9780191866005 |
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0191866008 |
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