Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly. It pursues the question specifically in relation to the question of whether theology is a science. The work argues that the main issue in debates concerns whether theology is a science and how to provide a 'rational ground' for existing singulars. Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.

List of contents

Preface The Contact of Science and Theology Divine Ideas, Aristotelian Science: Robert Grosseteste and the Theory of Scientia Aquinas and Theology as Subalternate Science Duns Scotus and Intuitive Knowledge Ockham and the Nature of Science Theology beyond Science After Ockham: Marsilius of Inghen and Pierre d'Ailly on Knowledge and the Existing Singular Bibliography

About the author

RICHARD A. LEE, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. He has published articles on later medieval philosophy, Hobbes, and contemporary European philosophy.

Summary

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly. It pursues the question specifically in relation to the question of whether theology is a science. The work argues that the main issue in debates concerns whether theology is a science and how to provide a 'rational ground' for existing singulars. Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Lee, Richard A Lee Jr, Richard A. Lee Jr, Lee Jr. Richard a., Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9780312292966
• ISBN: 978-0-312-29296-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 225 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Illustrations: IX, 180 p.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Religion, B, History, Philosophy, Religion: general, Social & political philosophy, History of Philosophy, History of Science, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave History Collection, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy and social sciences, Religious Studies, general, Medieval Philosophy, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, Medieval Western philosophy