The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400-1700 /
The thirteen articles brought together in this volume explore key aspects of the transmission of learning and the transformation of thought from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Focusing on important topics in early modern metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory, the co...
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Dordrecht :
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2003.
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| Series: | New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit
- 3. Ockham and Locke on Mental Language- 4. Metaphysics as a Discipline: From the "Transcendental Philosophy of the Ancients" to Kant's Notion of Transcendental Philosophy
- 5. God as First Principle and Metaphysics as a Science
- 6. Gabriel Biel and Later-Medieval Trinitarian Theology.-7. The Question of the Validity of Logic in Late Medieval Thought
- 8. Uses of Philosophy in Reformation Thought: Melanchthon, Schegk, and Crellius
- 9. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: Auriol, Pomponazzi, and Luther on "Scholastic Subtleties"
- 10. The Ontological Source of Logical Possibility in Catholic Second Scholasticism
- 11. The Renaissance of Statistical Modalities in Early Modern Scholasticism
- 12. Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler's Opus Logicum
- 13. Leibniz on Compossibility: Some Scholastic Sources
- Index of Names.