Fate, Providence and Moral Responsibility in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Thought : Studies in Honour of Carlos Steel / edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Gerd Van Riel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steel, Carlos G., honouree.

Van Riel, Gerd, editor.

Hoine, Pieter d', editor.

Series:

Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 49.

Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; XLIX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Providence and government of God.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Free will and determinism.

Fate and fatalism.

Free will and determinism--Congresses.

Providence and government of God--Congresses.

Fate and fatalism--Congresses.

Philosophy, Ancient--Congresses.

Philosophy, Medieval--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference proceedings.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (808 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Louvain, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays on key moments in the intellectual history of the West. This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of lat

Contents:

Part 5. Greek Patristics and the Byzantine tradition

Goodness, evil and the free will of man in Gregory of Nyssa / Claudio Moreschini

Édition d'un fragment Contre les astronomes, contenant une contribution à la theorie des quatre humeurs et des temperaments / Caroline Mace

A late antique debate on matter-evil revisited in 11th-century Byzantium : John Italos and his Quaestio 92 / Michele Trizio

The Metochion, Holy Sepulchre 363 manuscript and an unpublished Byzantine opuscule on predetermination / Peter Van Deun & Erika Gielen

Part 6. The Arabic tradition

La Providence selon le "Livre de la reprimande de l'âme" attribue à Hermes Trismegiste : un document neoplatonicien arabe oublie / Daniel De Smet

What about providence in the best of all possible worlds? : Avicenna and Leibniz / Jules Janssens

Providence in Averroes / Richard Taylor

Part 7. The medieval Latin tradition

Are first movements venial sins? : Augustinian doctrine and Aquinas's reinterpretation / Tianyue Wu

La doctrine aristotelicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d'Aquin / Valerie Cordonier

Divine government and human freedom / Andreas Speer

Thoms Aquinas on providence, contingency and the usefulness of prayer / Rudi te Velde

Divine predestination, human merit and moral responsibility : the reception of Augustine's doctrine of irresistible grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus / Pasquale Porro

Henry of Ghent and the ethics of intention / Marialucrezia Leone

Henry of Ghent on fatalism and naturalism / Gordon Wilson

Voir la providence : autour du De visione Dei de Nicolas de Cues / Jean-Michel Counet

Fate, providence and predestination in the sapiential project of Denys the Carthusian / Kent Emery, Jr.

Part 8. Early modern thought

Human nature and moral responsibility in the work of Juan Luis Vives / Demmy Verbeke

L'anti-fatalisme de Julius Sirenius / Guy Guldentops

Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) on predestination, providence and free will / Filips Defoort.

Fate, providence and moral responsibility : an introduction / Gerd Van Riel & Pieter d'Hoine

Part 1. Plato and Aristotle

Émergence de la thematique de la providence divine de Diogene d'Apollonie à Platon / Lambros Couloubaritsis

Comment être responsable de son destin? : Platon et le mythe d'Er / Pierre Destree

Liberte et caractere dans le mythe d'Er / Sylvain Delcomminette

The fate of providence and Plato's world soul in Aristotle / John Dudley

Was Aristotle an ethical determinist? : reflections on his theory of action and voluntariness / Jörn Müller

Part 2. Hellenistic and early imperial philosophy

Presuppositions of moral action in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias / Frans A.J. de Haas

Plutarch and the Stoic theory of providence / Keimpe Algra

The middle Platonic doctrine of conditional fate / Jan Opsomer

Part 3. Plotinus

The question of evil in the world in Plotinus / Luc Brisson

Plotinus' metaphorical reading of the Timaeus : soul, methematics, providence / Riccardo Chiaradonna

Choice, self-determination and assimilation to God in Plotinus / Alessandro Linguiti

Part 4. The Neoplatonic commentators

Signs and tokens : do the gods of Neoplatonism really care? / John Dillon

A problem concerning providence : Proclus and Plutarch on inherited guilt and postponed punishment / Robbert M. van den Berg

Ascent of the soul and grades of freedom : Neoplatonic theurgy between ritual and philosophy / Christoph Helmig & Antonio L.C. Vargas

A fatal or providential affair? : Socrates and Alcibiades in Proclus' commentary on the Alcibiades I / Danielle A. Layne

Le cycle triadique de la causalite demiurgique : bonte, vouloir, providence : l'interpretation proclienne de Timee 29e1-30c2 / Alain Lernould

Hermias of Alexandria on Socrates' divine sign / Geert Roskam

When should a philosopher consult divination? : Epictetus amd Simplicius on fate and what is up to us / Gary Gabor.

Notes:

"Many of the contributions collected here were presented at a conference held at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium on 25-27 November, 2010 ..."--Page xiv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-769) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-145-2

OCLC:

890533749