Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12

Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 205
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781443881500
ISBN-13 : 1443881503
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12 by : Gyula Klima

Download or read book Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures as regards the thirteenth-century philosophical tradition that developed out of the Western Christian reception of the Neo-Platonized Aristotelianism of Islamic and Jewish thinkers. Whereas the writings of Maimonides count among the received works that inaugurate and shape this span, the variety of conceptual instruments developed by Scotus arguably signal its end, preparing the way for the emergence of diverse fourteenth-century philosophical worldviews. Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics explores the eponymous thinkers’ work across a variety of fields. In the domain of natural theology, Maimonides presses for creation de novo, adapting from the Islamic Kalām tradition what has come to be known as the Argument from Particularity, which deduces intelligent design when science seems, in principle, unable to account for states of affairs that conceivably needn’t obtain (to take an example from modern physics, the strength of the four fundamental forces). Part one of this volume contrasts Maimonides’s and Aquinas’s parallel treatments of this and other proof strategies still employed by contemporary philosophers. Part two, on Scotus, includes discussion of the authenticity of the logical writings attributed to him, the evolution of his thought in this field against the backdrop of various thirteenth-century developments, the types of Aristotelian universals theorized by Scotus, his semantics of theological discourse and ontology of possible entities.


Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12 Related Books

Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Gyula Klima
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-04 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures as regards the thirteenth-century philosophical tradition that developed out of the Western Christian rece
Aquinas and Us (Volume 18
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Timothy Kearns
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-06 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume considers the contemporary relevance of Aquinas’ thought and what parameters should influence its reception. It discusses the reception of Aquinas
Being, Goodness and Truth (Volume 16
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Gyula Klima
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-18 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume considers the Aristotelian virtue-ethics tradition as it develops in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. Part One studies the types of virtues Aquinas b
The Metaphysics of Personal Identity
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Gyula Klima
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-22 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

One of the most debated topics in medieval philosophy was the metaphysics of identity—that is, what accounts for the distinctness (non-identity) of different
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 115
Authors: Gyula Klima
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-21 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Contemporary introductions to the theme of self-knowledge too often trace its emergence in the history of philosophy to thinkers such as René Descartes and Dav