Studies in medieval philosophy / EtienneGilson ; translated by James G. Colbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilson, Étienne, 1884-1978, author.

Contributor:

Colbert, James G., 1938- translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 271 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Those new to Gilson can get a sense of the theme that dominated most of his life's work in the central essay on the historical significance of Thomism. Those familiar with him will perhaps be surprised by the sympathy with which he treats the more traditional theologians who resisted Aquinas and the Latin Averroists alike. Gilson prolongs his seminal demonstration of Scholastic influence on Descartes's philosophy by showing that there is also some unfortunate Scholastic influence in what we would call Descartes's natural science, specifically his meteorology. Both new and old Gilsonians will be intrigued by the account of how Descartes was convinced by Harvey that human blood makes a complete circulation, but against Harvey offered his own clear, distinct, and wrongheaded account of why it does.

Contents:

The meaning of Christian rationalism

The handmaiden of theology

The doctrine of double truth

Appendix : Texts of John the Jandun on the relations between reason and faith

The historical significance of Thomism

Reasoning by analogy in Campanella

Theology and Cartesian innatism

Descartes, Harvey, and scholasticism

Appendix: William Harvey's critique of the Cartesian theory of the movement of the heart

Cartesian and scholastic meteors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781532655296

1532655290