| CONTENTS |
|
| Text Sources and Credits |
vii |
| Acknowledgments |
xiii |
| General Introduction |
1 |
| PART I LOGIC AND EPISTEMOLOGY |
27 |
| Introduction |
27 |
| Philosophy, Theology, Logic, and the Sciences |
31 |
| 1 Augustine on Ancient Philosophy |
31 |
| 2 Dialectica Monacensis (anonymous, twelfth century) on the Division of Science |
43 |
| 3 Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Scope of Sacred Doctrine |
45 |
| The Problem of Universals |
59 |
| 4 Boethius Against Real Universals |
59 |
| 5 John of Salisbury on the Controversy over Universals |
63 |
| 6 The Summa Lamberti on the Properties of Terms |
66 |
| 7 William Ockham on Universals |
71 |
| 8 John Buridan on the Predicables |
79 |
| Illumination vs. Abstraction, and Scientific Knowledge |
83 |
| 9 Augustine on Divine Ideas and Illumination |
83 |
| 10 Thomas Aquinas on Illumination vs. Abstraction |
87 |
| 11 Thomas Aquinas on our Knowledge of the First Principles of Demonstration |
98 |
| 12 Henry of Ghent on Divine Illumination |
103 |
| 13 Duns Scotus on Divine Illumination |
110 |
| Knowledge and Skepticism |
117 |
| 14 Augustine on the Certainty of Self Knowledge |
117 |
| 15 Thomas Aquinas on whether the Intellect Can Be False |
120 |
| 16 Henry of Chent on whether a Human Being Can Know Anything |
123 |
| 17 Nicholas of Autrecourt on Skepticism about Substance and Causality |
134 |
| 18 John Buridan on Scientific Knowledge |
143 |
| PART II PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE, PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOUL, METAPHYSICS |
151 |
| Introduction |
151 |
| Hylomorphism, Causality, Natural Philosophy |
157 |
| 19 Thomas Aquinas on the Principles of Nature |
157 |
| 20 Thomas Aquinas on the Mixture of Elements |
168 |
| 21 Giles of Rome on the Errors of the Philosophers |
171 |
| 22 Selections from the Condemnation of 1277 |
180 |
| 23 John Buridan and the Theory of Impetus |
190 |
| Human Nature and the Philosophy of the Soul |
195 |
| 24 Augustine on the Soul |
195 |
| 25 Averroes on the Immateriality of the Intellect |
198 |
| 26 Siger of Brabant on the Intellective Soul |
203 |
| 27 Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Powers of the Human Soul |
207 |
| 28 John Buridan on the Immateriality of the Soul |
219 |
| Metaphysics, Existence, and Essence |
225 |
| 29 Avicenna on Common Nature |
225 |
| 30 Thomas Aquinas on Being and Essence |
227 |
| 31 John Buridan on Essence and Existence |
250 |
| God's Existence and Essence |
255 |
| 32 Augustine on Divine Immutability |
255 |
| 33 Anselm of Canterbury on God's Existence |
259 |
| 34 Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence and Simplicity |
266 |
| PART III PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY |
303 |
| Introduction |
303 |
| Goodness and Being |
309 |
| 35 Augustine on Evil as the Privation of Goodness |
309 |
| 36 Augustine on the Origin of Moral Evil |
311 |
| 37 Boethius on Being and Goodness |
318 |
| 38 Thomas Aquinas on the Convertibility of Being and Goodness |
322 |
| Freedom of the Will |
325 |
| 39 Augustine on the "Divided Will |
325 |
| 40 Boethius on Divine Providence and the Freedom of the Will |
331 |
| 41 Anselm of Canterbury on Free Will |
337 |
| 42 Henry of Chent on the Primacy of the Will |
349 |
| Virtues and Happiness |
353 |
| 43 Boethius on the Supreme Good |
353 |
| 44 Thomas Aquinas on Happiness |
358 |
| Divine Law, Natural Law, Positive Law |
361 |
| 45 Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and Positive Law |
361 |
| 46 John Duns Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Law |
375 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading |
382 |
| Index |
388 |