Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul

Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century

José Filipe Silva (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2012
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-22662-3 (ISBN)

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Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul examines Kilwardby’s role in conciliating Aristotelian and Augustinian views on the soul, soul-body relation, and cognition. The detailed investigation into Kilwardby’s pluralism of forms sheds new light into the Oxford Prohibitions of 1277.

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.

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’.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.6.2012
Reihe/Serie	Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1420 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-22662-1 / 9004226621
ISBN-13	978-90-04-22662-3 / 9789004226623
Zustand	Neuware