Blackwell Readings in Medieval Philosophy

(Ed. Gyula Klima, Fordham University)

General Introduction

Table of Contents

List of Sources 

Part 1: Logic and Epistemology

A. Philosophy, Theology, Logic, and the Sciences

1. Augustine on ancient philosophy

2. Anonymous 12th-century author on the division of science

3. Thomas Aquinas on the nature and scope of sacred doctrine

B. The Problem of Universals

4. Boethius against real universals

5. John of Salisbury on the controversy over universals

6. The Summa Lamberti on the properties of terms

7. William Ockham on universals

8. John Buridan on the predicables

C. Illumination vs. Abstraction, and Scientific Knowledge

9. Augustine on divine ideas and illumination

10. Thomas Aquinas on illumination vs. abstraction 

11. Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of the first principles of demonstration

12. Henry of Ghent on divine illumination

13. Duns Scotus on divine illumination

D. Knowledge and Skepticism

14. Augustine on the certainty of self-knowledge

15. Thomas Aquinas on whether the intellect can be false

16. Henry of Ghent on whether a human being can know anything

17. Nicholas of Autrecourt on skepticism about substance and causality

18. John Buridan on scientific knowledge

Part 2: Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of the Soul, Metaphysics

A. Hylomorphism, Causality, Natural Philosophy

19. Thomas Aquinas on the principles of nature

20. Thomas Aquinas on the mixture of elements

21. Giles of Rome on the errors of philosophers

22. Selections from the Condemnation of 1277

23. John Buridan on the theory of impetus

B. Human Nature and the Philosophy of the Soul

24. Augustine on the soul

25. Averroes on the immateriality of the intellect

26. Siger of Brabant on the intellective soul

27. Thomas Aquinas on the nature and powers of the human soul

28. John Buridan on the immateriality of the soul

C. Metaphysics, Existence and Essence

29. Avicenna on common nature

30. Thomas Aquinas on being and essence

31. John Buridan on essence and existence

D. God’s Existence and Essence

32. Augustine on divine immutability

33. Anselm of Canterbury on God’s existence

34. Thomas Aquinas on God’s existence and simplicity

Part 3: Practical Philosophy

A. Goodness and Being

35. Augustine on evil as the privation of goodness

36. Augustine on the origin of moral evil

37. Boethius on being and goodness

38. Thomas Aquinas on the convertibility of being and goodness

B. Freedom of the Will

39. Augustine on the “divided will”

40. Boethius on divine providence and the freedom of the will

41. Anselm of Canterbury on free will

42. Henry of Ghent on the primacy of the will

C. Virtues and Happiness

43. Boethius Dacus on the supreme good

44. Thomas Aquinas on happiness

D. Divine Law, Natural Law, Positive Law

45. Thomas Aquinas on natural law and positive law

46. John Duns Scotus on natural law and divine law

 

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index