The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics

Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on Proclus’ Elements of Theology

Buch | Hardcover

514 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-45380-7 (ISBN)

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The volume is dedicated to Berthold of Moosburg’s commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. This overlooked work from the 14th century proposed, as an alternative to the prevailing Aristotelian metaphysics, a superior wisdom of the Good articulated within the Platonic tradition, both pagan and Christian.

This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolidate and transform a legacy of metaphysics developed in the German-speaking lands by Peripatetic authors (like Albert the Great, Ulrich of Strassburg, and Dietrich of Freiberg). This volume aims to provide a basis for further research and discussion of this unduly overlooked commentary, whose historical-philosophical importance as an attempt to refound Western metaphysics is beginning to be recognized.

The publication of this volume has received the generous support of the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the ERC Consolidator Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th Centuries), grant agreement No 771640 (www.neoplat.eu).

“[…] the volume displays various aspects of the richness hidden in this Commentary on Proclus: the contributions mentioned here are merely representative of such richness. Nonetheless, a desideratum of the research on Berthold remains a closer analysis of his polemical relations with his still unknown adversaries.”

-Giuseppe Thomas Vitale, Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 89.2

Dragos Calma, Ph.D. (2008), Sorbonne University – Paris, is Associate Professor of Medieval Philosophy at University College Dublin. On Neoplatonism, he has published Neoplatonism in the Middles Ages (with Brepols, 2 vols, 2016) and Reading Proclus and Book of Causes (with Brill, vol. 1 in 2019 and vol. 2 in 2020). Evan King, Ph.D. (2017), University of Cambridge, is a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project NeoplAT: Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions (University College Dublin). His monograph, Supersapientia. Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists, is forthcoming in 2021. Contributors are: Henryk Anzulewicz, Alessandra Beccarisi, Dragos Calma, Michael W. Dunne, Tommaso Ferro, Stephen Gersh, Wouter Goris, Paul Hellmeier, Evan King, Theo Kobusch, Ezequiel Ludueña, Alessandro Palazzo, Fiorella Retucci, Sylvain Roudaut, Loris Sturlese.

1 Introduction

Dragos Calma and Evan King

part 1: Sources

2 The Meaning of the Biblical Citations in the Expositio of Berthold of Moosburg

Paul D. Hellmeier OP

3 Avicebron (Solomon Ibn Gabirol) and Berthold of Moosburg on Essential Causality

Alessandra Beccarisi

4 Between Cologne and Oxford: Berthold of Moosburg and Thomas of York’s Sapientiale

Fiorella Retucci

5 Die Kontinuität der intellektuellen Tradition des Albertus Magnus: Berthold von Moosburgs Theorie des Intellekts

Henryk Anzulewicz

6 The Gods and Causality. On Aquinas’ Presence in Berthold’s Expositio

Ezequiel Ludueña

7 Berthold of Moosburg, Reader of Ulrich of Strassburg. On Natural Providence

Tommaso Ferro

8 Sapiens modernus: The Reception of Dietrich of Freiberg in Berthold of Moosburg

Evan King

part 2: Doctrines

9 Berthold of Moosburg, the unum animae, and Deification

Loris Sturlese

10 Metaphysical Freedom. From Albert the Great to Berthold of Moosburg

Wouter Goris

11 Doppelte Providenz. Die Rezeption einer neuplatonischen Tradition bei Berthold von Moosburg

Theo Kobusch

12 Regna duo duorum. Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Providence and Fate

Alessandro Palazzo

13 Founding a Metaphysics of Light in Proclus’ Universe: Berthold of Moosburg’s Theory of Forms

Sylvain Roudaut

part 3: Comparisons

14 Peter of Ireland and Berthold of Moosburg on First Being, First Life, and First Mind

Michael W. Dunne

15 Berthold of Moosburg, Nicholas of Cusa, and Marsilio Ficino as Historians of Philosophy

Stephen Gersh

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern ; 2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	986 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	90-04-45380-6 / 9004453806
ISBN-13	978-90-04-45380-7 / 9789004453807
Zustand	Neuware