Studies in Medieval Philosophy
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Studies in Medieval Philosophy

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Studies in Medieval Philosophy

About this book

Those new to Gilson can get a sense of the theme that dominated most of his life's work in the central essay on the historical significance of Thomism. Those familiar with him will perhaps be surprised by the sympathy with which he treats the more traditional theologians who resisted Aquinas and the Latin Averroists alike. Gilson prolongs his seminal demonstration of Scholastic influence on Descartes's philosophy by showing that there is also some unfortunate Scholastic influence in what we would call Descartes's natural science, specifically his meteorology. Both new and old Gilsonians will be intrigued by the account of how Descartes was convinced by Harvey that human blood makes a complete circulation, but against Harvey offered his own clear, distinct, and wrongheaded account of why it does.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: The Meaning of Christian Rationalism
  4. Chapter 2: The Handmaiden of Theology
  5. Chapter 3: The Doctrine of Double Truth
  6. Appendix to Chapter 3: Texts of John of Jandun on the Relations between Reason and Faith
  7. Chapter 4: The Historical Significance of Thomism
  8. Chapter 5: Reasoning by Analogy in Campanella
  9. Chapter 6: Theology and Cartesian Innatism
  10. Chapter 7: Descartes, Harvey, and Scholasticism
  11. Appendix to Chapter 7: William Harvey’s Critique of the Cartesian Theory of the Movement of the Heart
  12. Chapter 8: Cartesian and Scholastic Meteors
  13. Bibliography