Willing and Understanding: Late Medieval Debates on the Will, the Intellect, and Practical Knowledge

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54032-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 238 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Reihe: Investigating Medieval Philosophy

Willing and Understanding elucidates a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the will-intellect interplay in the late Middle Ages. Authored by prominent scholars in the field, the contributions offer different perspectives on the development of late medieval theories of the will.

Charting a dense map of voluntarist and epistemological ideas—entrenched leitmotifs of late medieval philosophy, seminal insights sparking original trends, and ephemeral novelties—the volume is a testimony to the conceptual multidimensionality and ethical complexity of the past and present iterations of the debate on the will.

Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Magdalena Bieniak, Michael W. Dunne, Riccardo Fedriga, Giacomo Fornasieri, Tobias Hoffmann, Severin V. Kitanov, Monika Michalowska, Riccardo Saccenti, Sonja Schierbaum, Michael Szlachta, Lukasz Tomanek, and Francesco Omar Zamboni.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Michalowska, Monika

Fedriga, Riccardo

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1 The Complexity of Late Medieval Debates on the Will

Introduction

Riccardo Fedriga and Monika Michalowska

2 Fear and Conditional Will in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones and in the Summa Halensis

Magdalena Bieniak

3 What Tips the Scales?

Volition, Motivation, and Choice in FaHr al-Din al-Razi

Francesco Omar Zamboni

4 How Do Intellect and Will Interact?

Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines, and the Determination-Exercise Distinction

Michael Szlachta

5 Understanding and Acting

Deliberation, the Practical Intellect, and Moral Science at the University of Bologna (Gentile da Cingoli, Angelo d’Arezzo, and Cambiolo da Bologna)

Riccardo Saccenti

6 John of Pouilly’s Intellectualist Reading of the March 7, 1277 Condemnation

Tobias Hoffmann

7 Cognitive Attention and Impressions

The Role of the Will in Peter Auriol’s Theory of Concept Formation

Giacomo Fornasieri

8 Dissolving the Air of Inconsistency

William Ockham on Virtuous Volitions and Cognitive Error

Sonja Schierbaum

9 Hybernicus contra Thomam

Richard FitzRalph on the Will and His Critique of Aquinas on the Primacy of the Intellect over the Will

Michael W. Dunne

10 Cracking the Code of the Will

Richard Kilvington on the Will and Logic

Monika Michalowska

11 Adam Wodeham’s Analysis and Defense of Free Will

Severin V. Kitanov

12 Gregory of Rimini and the Augustinian Theory of the Will

Examples of a Mediaeval Reading of Augustine’s De libero arbitrio

Pascale Bermon

13 Necessity, Contingency, and Free Will in John of Jandun and John Aurifaber of Halberstadt

The Transmission of Ideas from Paris to Erfurt in the 14th Century

Lukasz Tomanek

Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names

Index of Modern Names

Über Autor(innen)

Monika Michalowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Lódz. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023).

Riccardo Fedriga is Professor of history of ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will (Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2022) with Monika Michalowska.