John Duns Scotus - Selected Writings on Ethics

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. This accessible and philosophically informed translation includes extended discussions on divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of God, and the relationship between will and intellect.

About the author

Thomas Williams is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is co-author of Anselm (Oxford, 2009) and Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on Happiness and Treatise on Human Acts (Hackett, 2016), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus (Cambridge, 2003) and Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Cambridge, 2005), co-editor of Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed. (Hackett, 2010), and translator of Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett, 1993) and Anselm: Basic Writings (Hackett, 2007).

Summary

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. This accessible and philosophically informed translation includes extended discussions on divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of God, and the relationship between will and intellect.

Additional text

This anthology by Thomas Williams testifies to his impressive skills, both as an editor and as a translator of Duns Scotus's notoriously troublesome Latin

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Williams, Thomas (University of South Florida) Williams
• Assisted by: Thomas Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2017
• EAN: 9780199673414
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967341-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Ethics & moral philosophy, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Ethics and moral philosophy, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy