John Marenbon

Early Medieval Philosophy 480-1150

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Compact but singularly well thought out material of a theological, logical, poetic as well as philosophical nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd Rev edition
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780415000703
• ISBN-10: 041500070X
• Artikelnr.: 21928277

Autorenporträt

John Marenbon is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Born in London, he was educated at Westeminster School and at Trinity College. He is the author of From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and Later Medieval Philosophy (1150-1350), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part One The antique heritage 1 Platonism in the ancient world
Plato
From Platonism to Neoplatonism
Plotinus, Porphyry and Latin Neoplatonism
2 Neoplatonism and the Church Fathers
Augustine's treatment of pagan philosophy
The Greek Christian Platonists
Iamblichus, Proclus and the pseudo-Dionysius 3 The antique logical tradition
Aristotle
Logic in late antiquity
4 Boethius
The treatises on the arts
The logical works
The 'Opuscula sacra'
The 'Consolation of Philosophy'
Part Two The beginnings of medieval philosophy
5 The earliest medieval philosophers
From Cassiodorus to Alcuin
The circle of Alcuin
6 Philosophy in the age of John Scottus Eriugena
Ratramnus of Corbie and Macarius the Irishman
John Scottus and the controversy on Predestination
John Scottus and the Greeks
The Periphyseon
7 The aftermath of Eriugena: philosophy at the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century
The influence of Eriugena
The traditions of glosses to school texts
Remigius of Auxerre
8 Logic and scholarship in the tenth and earlier eleventh century
Tenth-century logic
Antique philosophy and the Christian scholar
9 Logic and theology in the age of Anselm
Dialectic and its place in theology
Anselm
Anselm's pupils and influence
Logic and grammar at the end of the eleventh Century
Part Three 1100-50
10 Masters and schools
11 The antique philosophical tradition: scholarship, science and poetry
William of Conches
Minor cosmological works
Bernard Silvestris
12 Grammar and logic
Grammar
Logic
Abelard's philosophy of logic 13 Theology
The varieties of theology
The 'Opuscula sacra'
Gilbert of Poitiers 14 Abelard and the beginnings of medieval ethics