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Author | : Thomas Michael Osborne |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813221781 |
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This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author | : Sacha Golob |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108206107 |
Download The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Rawls, as well as numerous key ideas and schools of thought. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, drawing on the latest research to offer rigorous analysis of the canonical figures and movements of this branch of philosophy. The volume provides a comprehensive yet philosophically advanced resource for students and teachers alike as they approach, and refine their understanding of, the central issues in moral thought.
Author | : Paul Vincent Spade |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1999-12-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139825682 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ockham Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1288–1347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150. Ockham is important not only in the history of philosophy and theology, but also in the development of early modern science and of modern notions of property rights and church-state relations. This volume offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of Ockham's thought: logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology, ethics, action theory, political thought and theology. It is the first study of Ockham in any language to make full use of the new critical editions of his works, and to consider recent discoveries concerning his life, education, and influences.
Author | : Thomas Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 623 |
Release | : 2002-12-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139825828 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6–1308) was (along with Aquinas and Ockham) one of the three principal figures in medieval philosophy and theology, with an influence on modern thought arguably even greater than that of Aquinas. The essays in this volume systematically survey the full range of Scotus' thought. They take care to explain the technical details of his writing in lucid terms and demonstrate the relevance of his work to contemporary philosophical debate. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Scotus currently available.
Author | : Joseph Pilsner |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191608696 |
Download The Specification of Human Actions in St Thomas Aquinas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving. A problem arises, however, concerning his teaching on how such moral kinds are determined. Aquinas uses five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance, and motive - to identify what gives species to human actions. Although similarities in meaning can be discerned between certain of these terms, apparent differences between others make it difficult to grasp how all five could refer to what specifies human actions. Joseph Pilsner examines and compares Aquinas's understanding of these five terms to see if a consistent account of his teaching on specification can be proposed.
Author | : Richard Cross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1999-06-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195352254 |
Download Duns Scotus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an accessible introduction to the life and thought of John Duns Scotus (c. 1266--1308), the scholastic philosopher and theologian who came to be called the Subtle Doctor. A native of Scotland (as his name implies), Scotus became a Franciscan and taught in Oxford, Paris, and Cologne. In his writings he put Aristotelian thought to the service of Christian theology and was the founder of a school of scholasticism called Scotism, which was often opposed to the Thomism of the followers of Thomas Aquinas. In particular, Scotus is well known for his defense of contra-causal free will and logical possibility and for his account of individuation in terms of "haecceity" or "thisness." Cross offers a clear introductory account of the most significant aspects of Scotus's theological thought. Theology is here construed broadly to include Scotus's philosophical investigation of God's existence and attributes. In addition to providing a clear, though not always uncritical, outline of Scotus's positions, Cross aims to show how Scotus's theories fit into modern debates, particularly contemporary debates in philosophical theology, and to point out Scotus's historical significance in the development of theology.
Author | : John Duns Scotus |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813208955 |
Download Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Sacha Golob |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 2017-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108215556 |
Download The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought, perfectionism, pragmatism, idealism and intuitionism are all explored, as are figures including Aristotle, Boethius, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and Rawls, as well as numerous key ideas and schools of thought. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, drawing on the latest research to offer rigorous analysis of the canonical figures and movements of this branch of philosophy. The volume provides a comprehensive yet philosophically advanced resource for students and teachers alike as they approach, and refine their understanding of, the central issues in moral thought.
Author | : Colleen McCluskey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107175275 |
Download Thomas Aquinas on Moral Wrongdoing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive examination of the moral psychology of wrongdoing from a major historical figure, Thomas Aquinas.
Author | : Can Laurens Löwe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108988660 |
Download Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a novel account of Aquinas's theory of the human act. It argues that Aquinas takes a human act to be a composite of two power-exercises, where one relates to the other as form to matter. The formal component is an act of the will, and the material component is a power-exercise caused by the will, which Aquinas refers to as the 'commanded act.' The book also argues that Aquinas conceptualizes the act of free choice as a hylomorphic composite: it is, materially, an act of the will, but it inherits a form from reason. As the book aims to show, the core idea of Aquinas's hylomorphic action theory is that the exercise of one power can structure the exercise of another power, and this provides a helpful way to think of the presence of cognition in conation and of intention in bodily movement.