Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy

Name: Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521866729

ISBN-10: 0521866723

ISBN-13: 9780521866729

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Pasnau, Christina van Dyke

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Book details

List price: $380.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2009
Pages: 1242
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 2.80" tall
Weight: 5.214
Language: English



Introduction




Fundamentals



Origins in Baghdad




The emergence of medieval Latin philosophy




Byzantium




The rise of the universities




Monks and friars




Platonism




Augustinianism




Censorship




Modernity




Logic and Language



The development of logic in the twelfth century




Terminist logic




Nominalist semantics




Inferences




Sophismata




Grammar




Natural Philosophy



Natural philosophy in earlier Latin thought




Creation and causation




The influence of Arabic Aristotelianism on scholastic natural philosophy: projectile motion, the place of the universe, and elemental composition




Change, time, and place




The nature of change




Soul and Knowledge



Soul and body




The soul's faculties




The nature of intellect




Perception




Mental representation




Science and certainty




Divine illumination




Skepticism




Will and Desire



Freedom and determinism




Intellectualism and voluntarism




Emotion




Weakness and grace




Ethics



Happiness




Identity and moral agency




The inclination for justice




Virtue theory




Action and intention




The care of souls and 'practical ethics'




Political Philosophy



Religious authority and the state




Individual autonomy




Law and nature




Poverty




Just war




Metaphysics



The subject of the Aristotelian science of metaphysics




Essence and existence




Form and matter




Realism




Nominalism in the later Middle




Accidents and modes




Theology



Philosophy and theology




Faith and reason




Mysticism




Arguments for God's existence




Describing God




Providence Hester




The problem of evil



Appendices



Doctrinal Creeds



The Nicene Creed




Creeds in Islam




Maimonides's Thirteen Principles of Faith




Medieval translations



Greek Aristotelian works translated into Latin



Greek philosophical works translated into Latin




Greek philosophical works translated into Arabic




Arabic philosophical works translated into




Latin philosophical works translated into Greek




Ancient philosophical works and commentaries translated into Hebrew




Biographies



Bibliography of primary sources


Bibliography of secondary sources


Index nominun


Index rerum