Notes on contributors
Preface
Abbreviations and forms of reference
Introduction A.S. McGRADE
Entry points
Otherness
What is medieval philosophy?
Going further
A final image: medieval philosophy
and freedom
1 Medieval philosophy in context
STEVEN P. MARRONE
Emergence of medieval philosophy in the late
Roman Empire
Monastic discipline and scholarship
Islam
The rise of the West and the reemergence of
philosophy
Rationalization in society: politics, religion,
and educational institutions
Aristotle and thirteenth-century
scholasticism
The contested fourteenth century
The place of authority in medieval
thought
Philosophical sources
Genres
2 Two medieval ideas: eternity and hierarchy
JOHN MARENBON AND D. E. LUSCOMBE
Eternity
Hierarchy
Language and logic
E. J. ASHWORTH
Sources and developments
The purpose and nature of language
and logic
Signification, conventional and mental
language
Paronymy and analogy
Reference: supposition theory
Truth and paradox
Inference and paradox
4 Philosophy in Islam
THERESE-ANNE DRUART
Philosophy, religion, and culture
Psychology and metaphysics
Ethics
Jewish philosophy
IDIT DOBBS-WEINSTEIN
The roots of knowledge - Saadiah Gaon
Universal hylomorphism - Ibn Gabirol
The limits of reason - Moses Maimonides
A purer Aristotelianism - Gersonides
Jewish-Christian interactions
Metaphysics: God and being
STEPHEN P. MENN
Physical and metaphysical proofs of God
Avicenna's argument and some
challenges to it
Essence and existence
Only one necessary being?
Challenges to essence-existence
composition
Challenges about God and esse
Univocity, equivocity, analogy
7 Creation and nature
EDITH DUDLEY SYLLA
Creation
Nature as epiphany: natural philosophy through
the twelfth century
Astronomy and astrology
Scholastic natural philosophy
Interactions of natural philosophy and
theology
8 Natures: the problem of universals
GYULA KLIMA
Exemplarist realism: universals as divine
reasons
Common natures, singular existents, active
minds
Common terms, singular natures
9 Human nature
ROBERT PASNAU
Mind and body and soul
Cognition
Will, passion, and action
Freedom and immortality
10 The moral life
BONNIE KENT
Augustine and classical ethics
Happiness and morality
Evil, badness, vice, and sin
Virtues, theological and other
11 Ultimate goods: happiness, friendship, and bliss
JAMES Mc EVOY
Augustine and the universal desire for
happiness
Boethius: philosophy has its consolations
Thomas Aquinas
Happiness in the intellectual life
Theories of friendship
Happiness and peace at the end of history:
Joachim of Fiore
12 Political philosophy
ANNABEL S. BRETT
The one true city
Reason, nature, and the human good
Election and consent
Hierarchy and grace
History, autonomy, and rights
Conclusion
13 Medieval philosophy in later thought
P. J. FITZPATRICK AND JOHN HALDANE
The Renaissance and seventeenth century
Current engagements
14 Transmission and translation
THOMAS WILLIAMS
Channels of transmission
Three case studies
Translating medieval philosophy
Pairs and snares
A word of encouragement
Chronology of philosophers and major events
Biographies of major medieval philosophers
Bibliography
Index
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