Medieval Philosophy:
Selected Readings from Augustine to Buridan
Table of Contents

Herman Shapiro, Ed.

Preface by Herman Shapiro

I. St. Augustine on the Teacher (De Magistro)
II. Pseudo-Dionysius

on the Problem of Evil (De Divinis Nominibus, Ch. 4)

III. Boethius

on the Trinity (De Trinitate)

IV. John Scotus Erigena on the Division of Nature (De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1)
V. St. Anselm on the Existence of God (Proslogium, Preface & Chs. 1-4)
Gaunilon in Behalf of the Fool (Liber pro Insipiente adversus Anselmi in Proslogio rationcinationem)
St. Anselm

Reply to Gaunilon (Liber Apologeticus contra Gaunilonem respondentem pro Insipiente)

VI. Peter Abelard on Ethics (Ethica seu Scito Teipsum, Prologue, Chs. I-XVI)
VII. John of Salisbury

and the Controversy over Universals (Metalogion II, Chs. 17-20)

VIII. Hugh of St. Victor on the Origin of the Arts (Didascalicon, Preface & Bk. I)
IX.

Rules of the University of Paris, 1215 (Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis, selections)

X. Robert Grosseteste on Light (De Luce seu inchoatione formarum)
XI. Albert the Great on the Six Principles (Liber Sex Principiorum)
XII. Peter of Spain on Supposition (Summulae Logicales, Tractatus VI)
XIII. Roger Bacon Experimental Science (Opus Maius, Part VI, selections)
XIV. St. Thomas Aquinas

on the Truth of the Catholic Faith (Summa Contra Gentiles, Bk. I, Chs. 1-14)

XV. St. Bonaventure

on Retracing the Arts to Theology (De Reductione Artium ad Theologiam)

XVI. Giles of Rome on the Errors of the Philosophers (Errores Philosophorum)
XVII. Siger of Brabant on the Necessity and Contingency of Causes (De Necessitate et Contingentia Causarum)
XVIII. John Duns Scotus

on Faith and Reason (Ordinatio, Prologue)

XIX. William of Ockham on Epistemological Problems (Selections from Ordinatio,  Quodlibeta, Summa Totius Logicae, Exposito super libram Perihermenias)
XX. Nicolaus of Autrecourt

Critique of Causality and Substance (Epistolae ad Bernardum I, II)

XXI. Jean Buridan

and the Impetus Theory of Projectile Motion (Quaestiones super octo Phisicorum libros Aristotelis, 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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