John Blund -

John Blund

Treatise on the Soul

Michael Dunne, R. W. Hunt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2012 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726514-7 (ISBN)
79,95 inkl. MwSt
John Blund's Treatise on the Soul is probably the earliest text of its kind: a witness to the first reception of Greek and Arabic psychology at Oxford and foundation for a new area of medieval philosophical speculation. This book contains Hunt's Latin edition with a new English translation and a new introduction to the text by Michael Dunne.
Since the publication of the edition of John Blund's Tractatus de anima by the British Academy in 1970 there has been widespread acceptance of the importance of this text for the history of thought. Blund (ca. 1175-1248) was probably one of the first commentators on the libri naturales at Paris before the prohibition of 1210, and later introduced them to Oxford. Indeed, apart from the prohibitions of 1210 and 1215, the De anima of Blund is the one text which sheds light on the first reception of Aristotle at Paris. The text was probably composed at Paris, before 1204.

Blund taught arts at Paris ca. 1200-1205, then at Oxford towards 1207-1209. He returned to study theology at Paris during the interdict (1208-1214) and the contemporaneous suspension of the schools at Oxford (1209-1214). He was regent in theology at Paris for twelve years, and taught theology at Oxford after 1229.

With the Tractatus a whole area of philosophical speculation - namely Greek and Arabic psychology - arrived at Oxford, where it would continue to grow and be debated throughout the century. Blund did not know Averroës but he reflects the state of Latin Aristotelianism during the first third of the thirteenth century. Like his contemporaries Blund regarded the De anima of Avicenna as a commentary on Aristotle; indeed they found it clearer than the text of Aristotle and were guided by it. Blund is faithful to Aristotle and to Avicenna, rejecting, for example, the binarium famosissimum drawn from the Fons vitae of Avicebron. In expounding the doctrine of Aristotle and following the plan laid out by Avicenna, he considers the arguments for and against before offering his own reasoned position in the solutio. He defends the role of the philosopher as considering the nature of the soul and as distinct from theological considerations.

This new English translation makes available this important text to a wider audience of scholars interested in philosophy, theology, medieval history and the history of science and psychology. Students who are learning medieval Latin will be able to follow the original Latin with the help of the parallel translation and text notes.

Michael Dunne is currently Head of the Department of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth and is President of the Irish Philosophical Society. His main area of interest is Ireland's mediaeval university philosophical heritage. His current research project involves the edition of the scholastic works of Richard FitzRalph (1300-1360). Among his recent publications is (with J. McEvoy) The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009). Michael is a member of numerous learned societies, including the Royal Historical Society and the Société internationale pour l'étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM).

Introduction to the New Edition ; Introduction to the Latin Edition of 1970 ; Addenda to the Latin Text ; Sigla codicum ; Index capitulorum (Chapter index) ; Tractatus de anima secundum Iohannem Blondum ; Appendix ; Index auctorum (Index of authors) ; Index nominum et verborum potiorum (Index of names and key words) ; Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.9.2012
Reihe/Serie Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi ; 2
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 167 x 241 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-726514-6 / 0197265146
ISBN-13 978-0-19-726514-7 / 9780197265147
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