Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schierbaum, Sonja; Müller, Jörn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the 13th to 18th centuries. By crossing the conventional dividing line between the medieval and early modern periods, the volume draws important new insights on the historical development of voluntarism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003848325
• Artikelnr.: 69572403

Autorenporträt

Sonja Schierbaum is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group "Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720-1780)" at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of Ockham's Assumption of Mental Speech (2014) and has co-edited a volume on late-medieval conceptions of self-knowledge (with Dominik Perler, 2014). Jörn Müller is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on practical philosophy, anthropology, and philosophical psychology. His publications include monographs on Aristotle's ethics, Albert the Great and Henry of Ghent, as well as on weakness of will from Socrates to Duns Scotus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Voluntarism: Central Philosophical Issues and Problems Sonja
Schierbaum and Jörn Müller Part 1: Psychological Voluntarism 1. Does
Voluntarism Lead to Irrationalism? A Medieval Case Study Dominik Perler 2.
Voluntarism and Aristotelian akrasia: Radicalizing Views on Incontinence
around 1277 Jörn Müller 3. Henry of Ghent and John of Pouilly on
"Aristotle's Prophecy about Incontinence" Tobias Hoffmann 4. Descartes and
Leibniz on the Nature of the Will Stephan Schmid 5. Faith and Will in
Francisco de Vitoria Christophe Grellard Part 2: Ethical Voluntarism 6. The
Blind Will Is No King: Henry of Ghent's Voluntarism and the Act of Choice
Michael Szlachta 7. Descartes's Conception of Freedom: Between Voluntarism
and Intellectualism Ariane Cäcilie Schneck 8. Hobbes against liberum
arbitrium Thomas Pink 9. Freedom of the Will and the Passions in
Pufendorf's Action Theory Heikki Haara 10. Heavenly "Freedom" in
Fourteenth-Century Voluntarism Eric W. Hagedorn Part 3: Theological
Voluntarism 11. From Moral to Modal Voluntarism: Descartes on the Status of
Eternal Truths Sebastian Bender 12. Grounding the Principle of Plenitude,
or Why Leibniz Rehabilitated Divine Will Ursula Renz and Sarah Tropper 13.
Catharine Trotter Cockburn against Theological Voluntarism Ruth Boeker 14.
Crusius against the Arbitrariness of Moral Obligation: An Alternative to
Theological Voluntarism? Sonja Schierbaum