Table of Contents

Text Sources and Credits
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Part I: Logic and Epistemology
Introduction
Philosophy, Theology, Logic, and the Sciences
1. Augustine on Ancient Philosophy
2. Dialectica Monacensis (anonymous, twelfth century) on the Division of Science
3. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Scope of Sacred Doctrine
The Problem of Universals
4. Boethius Against Real Universals
5. John of Salisbury on the Controversy over Universals
6. The Summa Lamberti on the Properties of Terms
7. William Ockham on Universals
8. John Buridan on the Predicables
Illumination vs. Abstraction, and Scientific Knowledge
9. Augustine on Divine Ideas and Illumination
10. Thomas Aquinas on Illumination vs. Abstraction
11. Thomas Aquinas on our Knowledge of the First Principles of Demonstration
12. Henry of Ghent on Divine Illumination
13. Duns Scotus on Divine Illumination
Knowledge and Skepticism
14. Augustine on the Certainty of Self-Knowledge
15. Thomas Aquinas on whether the Intellect Can Be False
16. Henry of Ghent on whether a Human Being Can Know Anything
17. Nicholas of Autrecourt on Skepticism about Substance and Causality
18. John Buridan on Scientific Knowledge
Part II: Philosophy Of Nature, Philosophy of the Soul, Metaphysics
Introduction
Hylomorphism, Causality, Natural Philosophy
19. Thomas Aquinas on the Principles of Nature
20. Thomas Aquinas on the Mixture of Elements
21. Giles of Rome on the Errors of the Philosophers
22. Selections from the Condemnation of 1277
23. John Buridan and the Impetus Theory of Projectile Motion
Human Nature and the Philosophy of the Soul
24. Augustine on the Soul
25. Averroës on the Immateriality of the Intellect
26. Siger of Brabant on the Intellective Soul
27. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Powers of the Human Soul
28. John Buridan on the Immateriality of the Soul
Metaphysics, Existence, and Essence
29. Avicenna on Common Nature
30. Thomas Aquinas on Being and Essence
31. John Buridan on Essence and Existence
God´s Existence and Essence
32. Augustine on Divine Immutability
33. Anselm of Canterbury on God´s Existence
34. Thomas Aquinas on God´s Existence and Simplicity
PART III: PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
Goodness and Being
35. Augustine on Evil as the Privation of Goodness
36. Augustine on the Origin of Moral Evil
37. Boethius on Being and Goodness
38. Thomas Aquinas on the Convertibility of Being and Goodness
Freedom of the Will
39. Augustine on the "Divided Will"
40. Boethius on Divine Providence and the Freedom of the Will
41. Anselm of Canterbury on Free Will
42. Henry of Ghent on the Primacy of the Will
Virtues and Happiness
43. Boethius of Dacia on the Supreme Good
44. Thomas Aquinas on Happiness
Divine Law, Natural Law, Positive Law
45. Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and Positive Law
46. John Duns Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Law
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index