| preface |
xiii |
| PROLOGUE: EARLY CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTS |
1 |
| JESUS |
5 |
| New Testament: Gospel |
7 |
| PAUL AND THE EARLY CHURCH |
17 |
| New Testament: Acts, Pauline letters, and Revelation |
19 |
| THE CHURCH FATHER |
32 |
| Justin Martyr |
35 |
| Clement of Alexandria |
37 |
| Tertullian |
38 |
| Origen |
40 |
| PLOTINUS |
43 |
| Enneads |
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| AUGUSTINE |
51 |
| On the Free Choice of the Will (Book II) |
54 |
| Confessions (Book VIII, 5, 8-12; Book XI, 14-28) |
81 |
| City of God (Book VIII, Chapters 1-12; Book XI, Chapter 26; Book XII, Chapters 1-9; Book XIX, Chapters 11-17) |
95 |
| EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY |
125 |
| PSEUDO – DIONYSIUS |
127 |
| The Divine Names |
128 |
| BOETHIUS |
134 |
| From the same to the same… |
136 |
| The Second Editon of the Commentaries on the Isagoge of Porphyry (Book I Chapters 10-11) |
139 |
| The Consolation of Philosophy (Book V) |
142 |
| JOHN SCOTUS ERIUGENA |
148 |
| On the Division of Nature (Periphyseon) (Book I, Chapters 1-7, 11-12, 13-14) |
150 |
| ANSLEM |
157 |
| Proslogion (Preface, Chapters 1-4) |
159 |
| Anslem and Gaunilo: Debate |
160 |
| PETER ABELARD |
166 |
| On Universals |
168 |
| Ethics (Prologue, Chapters 1-3, 10-12) |
176 |
| HILDEGARD OF BINGEN |
188 |
| Scivias (Book I, Vision 4, Chapters 16-26) |
190 |
| JOHN OF SALISBURY |
195 |
| Metalogicon (Book II, Chapter 17) |
197 |
| Statesman (Policratus) (Chapters 1-3) |
199 |
| ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES |
205 |
| AVICENNA |
207 |
| Essay on the Secret of Destiny |
209 |
| Concerning the Soul (Chapters 1-2, 4, 6, 12-13) |
211 |
| AVERROES |
222 |
| The Decisive Treatise |
224 |
| MAIMONIDES |
234 |
| The Guide for the Perplexed ( Part I, Chapters 51-52, 58; Part II Introduction, Chapters 13,17; Part III, Chapter 12) |
| THIRTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY |
263 |
| ROBERT GROSSETESTE |
265 |
| On Light |
266 |
| ROGER BACON |
273 |
| The Opus Majus (Part IV, 1,3; Part VI, 1-2) |
275 |
| BONAVENTURE |
284 |
| The Mind's Road to God (Prologue, Chapters 1-3) |
286 |
| On the Eternity of the World (selections) |
298 |
| SIGER OF BRABANT |
307 |
| Question on the Eternity of the World The Condemnations of 1270 (complete) and 1277 (in part) |
308 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS |
321 |
| Summa Theologica (selections) |
325 |
| ELIHU PALMER |
395 |
| The Principles of Nature |
405 |
| Late Medieval Philosophy |
521 |
| JOHN DUNS SCOTUS |
423 |
| A Treatise on God as First Principle (Chapter 3) |
425 |
| Reportata Parisiensia (in part) |
430 |
| The Oxfort Commentary |
432 |
| Prologue to the Ordinatio |
436 |
| WILLIAM OF OCKHAM |
456 |
| On Universals (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapters 14-16; Part II, Chapter 2) |
459 |
| On Being (Summa Logicae, Part I, Chapter 38) |
470 |
| On God (selections) |
473 |
| On Politics (eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, Questions 2, Chapters 1,7) |
481 |
| MEISTER ECKHART |
485 |
| Sermon #1 |
487 |
| CATHERINE OF SIENA |
492 |
| Letter # 58 |
494 |
| The Dialogue |
496 |
| RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY |
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| NCHOLAS CUSANAS |
505 |
| On Learned Ignorance (Chapter 1-4, 26) |
506 |
| GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA |
513 |
| Oration on the Dignity of Man (in part) |
515 |