Contributor
Shapiro, Herman, 1922-
Imprint:New York : Modern Library, [1964]
Descriptionxiv, 547 p. ; 19 cm.
Note:I. ST. AUGUSTINE: St. Augustine on the teacher (De magistro, complete) -- II. THE PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS: Pseudo-Dionysius on the problem of evil (De divinis nominibus, ch.4, complete) -- III. BOETHIUS: Boethius on the trinity (De trinitate, complete) -- IV. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA: John Scotus Erigena on the division of nature (De divisione naturae, selections from Book I) -- V. ST. ANSELM AND GAUNILON: St. Anselm on the existence of God (Proslogium, Preface and ch. 1-4) -- Gaunilon in behalf of the fool (Liber pro insipiente adversus Anselmi in Proslogio ratiocinationem, complete) -- Anselm's reply to Gaunilon (Liber apologeticus contra Gaunilonem respondentem pro insipiente, complete) -- VI. PETER ABELARD: Abelard on ethics (Ethica seu scito teipsum, prologue and ch. 1-16) -- VII. JOHN OF SALISBURY: John of Salisbury and the controversy over universals (Metalogicon (II, ch. 17-20) -- VII. HUGH OF ST. VICTOR: Hugh of St. Victor on the Origin of the Arts (Didascalicon, preface and book I, complete) -- IX. THE UNIVERSITIES: Rules of the University of Paris, 1215 (Chartularium universitatis Parisiensis, selections) -- X. Robert Grosseteste: Robert Grosseteste on light (De luce seu inchoatione formarum, complete) -- XI. ALBERT THE GREAT: Albert the Great on the six principles (Liber sex principorum, complete) -- XII. PETER OF SPAIN: Peter of Spain on supposition (Summulae logicales, Tractatus 6, complete) -- XIII. ROGER BACON: Roger Bacon on experimental science (Opus maius, pt. 6, selections) -- XIV. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: St. Thomas Aquinas on the truth of the Catholic faith (Summa contra gentiles, book I, ch.1-14) -- XV. ST. BONAVENTURE: St. Bonaventure on retracing the arts to theology (De reductione artium ad theologiam, complete) -- XVI. GILES OF ROME: Giles of Rome on the errors of the philosophers (Errores philosophorum, complete) -- XVII. SIGER OF BRABANT: Siger of Brabant on the necessity and contingency of causes (De necessitate et contingentia causarum, complete) -- XVIII. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS: John Duns Scotus on faith and reason (Ordinatio, Prologue, complete) -- XIX. WILLIAM OCKHAM: William OCkham on epistemological problems (Ordinatio, Prologue, Q.I., N. sqq. ; Quodlibeta, VI, Q. vi; I, Q. xiii ; Summa Totius Logicae, I. c. xiv, xv, xvi ; Ordinatio, D. II, Q. viii, prima redactio; Expositio super librum perihermeneias) -- XX. NICOLAUS OF AUTRECOURT: Nicolaus of Autrecourt's critique of causality and substance (Epistolae ad Bernardum I and II, complete) -- XXI. JEAN BURIDAN: Jean Buridan and the impetus theory of projectile motion (Quaestiones super octo phisicorum libros Aristotelis, Li, VIII, Q. xii) -- Jean Buridan on the free fall of bodies (Quaestiones de Caelo et mundo, II, Q. xii) -- Jean Buridan on the diurnal rotation of the earth (Quaestiones de Caelo et Mundo, II, Q. xxii)
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