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This new edition of Bacon's
Compendium of the Study of Philosophy, with facing English translation, enables today's readers to engage with Bacon's philosophy. It provides a window on academic life in Oxford and Paris of the 1270s at an important time in the development of the universities of both cities.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Compendium of the Study of Philosophy
- 1: Wisdom, Corruption and the Need for Purification of the Church and Society
- 2: Ignorance, Error, and Sin as Obstacles to Wisdom
- 3: Four Causes of Human Error
- 4: Italian Civil Law as a Cause of Error in the Past Forty Years
- 5: Untrained Masters and Doctors as a Cause of Error in the Past Forty Years
- 6: Reasons why Latins Need to Study languages
- 7: Errors by Latins in Spelling, Pronunciation, and the Derivation of Words from the Hebrew Language
- 8: Eight Additional Reasons why Latins Should Study Languages and some Problems with Translations
- 9: The Greek Alphabet
- 10: Greek Diphthongs
- 11: Greek and Latin Syllables and their Prosodies
- 12: Abbreviations and other Ways of Writing Letters, Syllables, and Words
- Works frequently cited
- Indexes
About the author
Thomas S. Maloney undertook his first two years of college (1953-55) at St. Mary's College (Kentucky) and his third and fourth at the Università Gregoriana (Rome) (1955-57). Following this, he spent four years studying theology at Università Gregoriana (1957-61), before obtaining his Ph.D. in philosophy there (1966). He taught theology and then philosophy at Bellarmine College (Louisville, KY), before moving to the Philosophy Department at the University of Louisville (USA) in 1973, where he still teaches today.
Summary
This new edition of Bacon's Compendium of the Study of Philosophy, with facing English translation, enables today's readers to engage with Bacon's philosophy. It provides a window on academic life in Oxford and Paris of the 1270s at an important time in the development of the universities of both cities.
