Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul

Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22662-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Reihe: Investigating Medieval Philosophy

Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul is the first in-depth study on Kilwardby’s contribution to the thirteenth-century philosophical and theological debate on the nature of the soul and its relation with the body. The book examines his innovative approach to the plurality of substantial forms in the human person and argues against the traditional interpretation of the Prohibitions of 1277 in Oxford as being directed to Thomas Aquinas. The investigation into Kilwardby’s theory of knowledge provides new insight on his project to integrate Aristotelian and Augustinian doctrines. The originality of his account of the active nature of perception and his role in shaping standard views on truth, universals and intentions bespeaks of his relevance for understanding later medieval philosophical thought.

Zielgruppe

All students and specialists interested in the history of philosophy, especially in medieval theories of the soul, soul-body-relation, perception and divine illumination, and all those concerned with medieval Augustinianism and its relation with Aristotelianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silva, José Filipe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.vii
Acknowledgments.ix
Abbreviations.xi

Introduction.1
1. Life.1
2. Writings. 5
3. Nature and Scope.9

Part One: Human Beings
1. The Soul.27
2. Matter, Form, and Change.43
2.1. A Man Generates a Man.52
3. The Soul as una forma viventis.69
3.1. Unicity and Plurality of Substantial Forms.97
3.2. The Posicio de Unitate Formarum in Epistola. 105
3.3. The Disembodied Soul. 117
3.4. Dead Body: Resurrection and Bodily Continuity. 121

Part Two: Theory Of Knowledge
4. Sense Perception. 131
4.1. The Two Processes Model.132
4.2. The Active Nature of Perception. 160
4.3. The Organ of the Common Sense. 171
5. Intellectual Cognition.177
5.1. Abstraction.177
5.2. Universals. 183
5.3. The Trinitarian Model the Soul. 189
5.4. Memories and Intelligence. 199
5.5. Monopsychism.205
5.6. Individuation. 210
5.7. Scientia.215
5.8. Truth.226
5.9. Language.233
5.10. Angelic Intellect.237
5.11. Divine Illumination.242
5.12. Demons.246
5.13. Divine Ideas.249

Part Three: Discussion
6. The Oxford Prohibitions of 1277.259

Conclusion.275

Bibliography
Primary Sources. 281
Secondary Sources.286
Index of Names.307
Index of Subjects.309

Über Autor(innen)

Silva, José Filipe
José Filipe Silva, PhD (2009), Porto University, is Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has published articles on medieval and late scholastic epistemology, including ‘Robert Kilwardby on Sense Perception’.