José Filipe Silva

Robert Kilwardby

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780190674762
• ISBN-10: 0190674768
• Artikelnr.: 58411488

Autorenporträt

José Filipe Silva is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the Director of the ERC research project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550, and the author of Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul: Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Brian Davies
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. LIVING
The Life and Works of Robert Kilwardby
The Life
The Works
II. BEING
Introduction
The Metaphysics of Plurality
Matter
Form
The Letter to Peter of Conflans
Introduction
Animal Generation
Active Potencies
The Human Soul
Is the Soul (the) One?
The Unity of Form(s)
At Oxford in 1277
Excursus: The Human Soul in the Sentences
Motion
A Questionnaire
Celestial Motion
Time
III. BEING LOGICAL
Introduction
Words, Thoughts and Things
Interpretation
The Category of Relation
IV. KNOWING
Introduction
Perception
On the Reception of Sensible Species
Attention and Activity
Cognition
Introduction
Thinking
Representing and Instantiating
Universality
Scientific Knowledge
Introduction
Knowledge
Demonstration
Pre-existing Knowledge
First Principles
Principles
Conditions for Predication
Signs of Affections
What Can Be Demonstrated?
Definitions
Disciplining the Disciplines
Subalternation
V. BEHAVING
Introduction
Ethics: The Science of Happiness
The Good
The Cause of Happiness
The Virtues
Voluntary Action
VI. BELIEVING
Introduction
Theology
Divine Trinity
Where from? Creation as a Kind of Change
Angels
Creator and Creatures
Which One? The Free Choice of the Will
By Heaven's Grace
Gratis: Sin and Evil
On Sacraments
Faith
VII. INCARNATING
Introduction
I Assume
I Know
I Suffer
Bibliography
Notes
Index