CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 9

 

History of Western Philosophy

by George F. McLean and Patrick J. Aspell

 

MEDIEVAL WESTERN PHILOSOPHY:

THE EUROPEAN EMERGENCE

 

by

PATRICK J. ASPELL

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PREFACE

 

PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

 

CHAPTER I. AUGUSTINE: THE LOVER OF TRUTH

 

CHAPTER II. UNIVERSALS ACCORDING TO BOETHIUS, PETER ABELARD, AND OTHER DIALECTICIANS

 

CHAPTER III. CHRISTIAN NEOPLATOISTS: JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA AND ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

 

PART TWO: THE MATURITY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY CHRONOLOGY

 

CHAPTER IV. BONAVENTURE: PHILOSOPHER OF THE EXEMPLAR

 

CHAPTER V. THOMAS AQUINAS: PHILOSOPHER OF THE EXISTENTIAL ACT

 

PART THREE: CRITICAL REFLECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION

 

CHAPTER VI. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS: METAPHYSICIAN OF ESSENCE

 

CHAPTER VII. WILLIAM OF OCKHAM: PHILOSOPHY OF NOMINALISM

 

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS