The Modern Students Library PHILOSOPHY SERIES THE Modern Students
Library has been en larged to include a series of volumes con
taining writings of the great philosophers. These volumes are
edited by the most competent authorities at home and abroad. The
selections are comprehensive and suited to the special needs of
students and the general reading public. Each volume contains an
introduction giving a brief outline of the system of the author and
indicating hisplace in the history of thought. The Philosophy
Series is under the general edi torship of Ralph Barton Perry,
Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. For a complete list of
THE MODERN STUDENTS LIBRARY see the page following the text CHARLES
SCRIBNERS SONS THE MODERN STUDENTS LIBRARY SELECTIONS FROM MEDIEVAL
PHILOSOPHERS i AUGUSTINE TO ALBERT THE GREAT SELECTIONS FROM
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS i AUGUSTINE TO ALBERT THE GREAT EDITED AND
TRANSLATED, WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY RICHARD McKEON ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONDON CHARLES
SCRIBNERS SONS 1980 CONTENTS PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION RICHARD
MCKEON ix I. SAINT AUGUSTINE Introduction 3 On the Free Will, Book
II, 1-46 11 II. BOETHIUS Introduction 65 The Second Edition of the
Commentar ies on the Isagoge of Porphyry, Book I . 70 III. JOHN
SCOTUS ERIUGENA Introduction 100 On the Division of Nature Book IV,
7-9 106 IV. SAINT ANSELM Introduction 142 Dialogue on Truth 150 V.
PETER LOMBARD Introduction 185 The Four Books of Sentences. Book I,
Distinction III 189 VI. PETER ABAILARD Introduction 202 The Glosses
of Peter Abailard on Por phyry Introduction 208 viii CONTENTS VII.
ROBERT GROSSETESTE Introduction 259 On Truth 263 On the Truth of
Proposition 282 Onthe Knowledge of God 285 VIII. THE
PSEUDO-GROSSETESTE Introduction 288 The Summa of Philosophy 290 IX.
ALBERT THE GREAT Introduction 315 On the Intellect and the
Intelligible. Book I 326 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The reestimation of
medieval culture began, about eighty years ago, to make difficult
the continued cur rency of the old strictures against medieval
philosophy. Judgments of philosophers in the ordinary tradition
had, up to that time, continued almost unchanged from the form in
which they first appeared in the writings of sixteenth and
seventeenth century philosophers who represented themselves in
revolt against a scholasticism, vain, authority-ridden, tenuous,
repetitious, logic-chop ping, inadequate to the revolutions of
modern thought. Only slowly have these opinions been altered until
in more recent years increasingly impressive contributions in
scholarly research have made possible the return of medieval
speculations to a place of dignity in the history of thought. The
noises of these changes have by now spread rather generally in
literary and philosophical discussions, but the layman, the student
who has no access to writings in latin and greek, and the casual
essayist of the day who is tempted to generalities con cerning
centuries and cultures, are still limited to the vaguest of
secondary and tertiary impressions. Little of the material examined
in the reestimation has been translated into the modern languages,
and the transla tions in english are perhaps fewer than in most lan
guages. Between Augustine and the seventeenth cen tury, twelve
hundred years which are crammed with the writings of voluminous
workers who initiated some of the most significant, though
almostforgotten, developments of philosophic thought, there is
almost nothing in eng x GENERAL INTRODUCTION lish save some partial
and not always satisfactory trans lations of Anselm and Aquinas. So
striking is the paucity that, although the present selections,
translated from fifteen philosophers of the middle ages, were made
with an eye only to the importance of the pages selected,
subsequent inquiry disclosed that none of the passages had ever
been translated into english before...
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2007 |
First published: |
March 2007 |
Authors: |
Richard McKeon
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216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4067-6924-1 |
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LSN: |
1-4067-6924-X |
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9781406769241 |
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