Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy)

 Content: Logic and epistemology --
 Philosophy, theology, logic, and the sciences --
 Augustine on ancient philosophy --
 Dialectica Monaccensis (anonymous, twelfth century) on the division of science --
 Thomas Aquinas on the nature and scope of sacred doctrine --
 The problem of universals --
 Boethius against real universals --
 John of Salisbury on the controversy over universals --
 The Summa Lamberti on the properties of terms --
 William Ockham on universals --
 John Buridan on the predicables --
 Illumination vs. abstraction, and scientific knowledge --
 Augustine on divine ideas and illumination --
 Thomas Aquinas on illumination vs. abstraction --
 Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of the first principles of demonstration --
 Henry of Ghent on divine illumination --
 Duns Scotus on divine illumination --
 Knowledge and skepticism --
 Augustine on the certainty of self-knowledge --
 Thomas Aquinas on whether the intellect can be false --
 Henry of Ghent on whether a human being can know anything --
 Nicholas of Autrecourt on skepticism about substance and causality --
 John Buridan on scientific knowledge --
 Philosophy of nature, philosophy of the soul, metaphysics --
 Hylomorphism, causality, natural philosophy --
 Thomas Aquinas on the principles of nature --
 Thomas Aquinas on the mixture of elements --
 Giles of Rome on the errors of philosophers --
 Selections from the condemnation of 1277 --
 John Buridan on the impetus theory of projectile motion --
 Human nature and the philosophy of the soul --
 Augustine on the soul --
 Averroës on the immateriality of the intellect --
 Siger of Brabant on the intellective soul --
 Thomas Aquinas on the nature and powers of the human soul --
 John Buridan on the immateriality of the soul --
 Metaphysics, existence and essence --
 Avicenna on common nature --
 Thomas Aquinas on being and essence --
 John Buridan on essence and existence --
 God\'s existence and essence --
 Augustine on divine immutability --
 Anselm of Canterbury on God\'s existence --
 Thomas Aquinas on God\'s existence and simplicity --
 Practical philosophy --
 Goodness and being --
 Augustine on evil as the privation of goodness --
 Augustine on the origin of moral evil --
 Boethius on being and goodness --
 Thomas Aquinas on the convertibility of being and goodness --
 Freedom of the will --
 Augustine on the \"divided will\" --
 Boethius on divine providence and the freedom of the will --
 Anselm of Canterbury on free will --
 Henry of Ghent on the primacy of the will --
 Virtues and happiness --
 Boethius of Dacia on the supreme good --
 Thomas Aquinas on happiness --
 Divine law, natural law, positive law --
 Thomas Aquinas on natural law and positive law --
 John Duns Scotus on natural law and divine law.
 Abstract:             
              This collection of readings with extensive editorial commentary brings together key texts of the most influential philosophers of the medieval era to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of philosophy. .                 Read more...