Questiones libri Porphirii / Thomas Manlevelt ; a critical edition with introduction and indices by Alfred van der Helm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manlevelt, Thomas, active 14th century, author.

Contributor:

Helm, Alfred van der.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 113.

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge.

Porphyry.

Manlevelt, Thomas, active 14th century.

Manlevelt, Thomas.

Physical Description:

433 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

The 'Questiones libri Porphirii' is a commentary on Porphyry's 'Isagoge' by the fourteenth-century logician Thomas Manlevelt. It is edited here in full. Not much is known of Thomas Manlevelt, but his work is remarkable enough. Following in the footsteps of William of Ockham, Manlevelt stresses the individual nature of all things existing in the outside world. He radically challenges our conceptional framework. He applies Ockham's razor in an unscrupulous manner to do away with all entities not deemed necessary for preservation. In the end, Manlevelt even maintains that substance does not exist. In this text early Ockhamism is being pushed to its extremes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004256897

900425689X

9789004264304

9004264302

OCLC:

864753092