Robert Grosseteste: The Two Recensions of on Free Decision - On Free Decision

This book contains new critical editions of the Latin texts of Robert Grosseteste's 13th century treatise on free will, De libero arbitrio, with complete English translations. Included is a substantial study of the texts, their place in Grosseteste's body of works, doctrinal content, employment by later thinkers, and manuscript sources.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Sigla and Abbreviations


• Introduction


• De libero arbitrio, earlier recension


• De libero arbitrio, later recension


• Appendix: Richard Rufus of Cornwall on the Problem of a Plurality of Eternal Beings


• Index Sacrae Scripturae


• Index Auctorum Operumque Antiquorum


• Index of Modern Works and Authors


• Index Doctrinalis


• Index to the Introduction

About the author

After studying philosophy as an undergraduate in Australia, Neil Lewis did his PhD degree at Pittsburgh in the United States, developing an interest in medieval philosophy. His research has focused on Robert Grosseteste and early thirteenth-century English philosophy. He is a core member of the Ordered University Project devoted to interdisciplinary study of Grosseteste's scientific works, and also of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project, which is devoted to the preparation of critical editions of the works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall. Most of his academic career has been spent as a professor in the philosophy department at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

Summary

This book contains new critical editions of the Latin texts of Robert Grosseteste's 13th century treatise on free will, De libero arbitrio, with complete English translations. Included is a substantial study of the texts, their place in Grosseteste's body of works, doctrinal content, employment by later thinkers, and manuscript sources.

Product details

• Authors: Neil (Associate Professor of Philosophy Lewis
• Assisted by: Neil Lewis (Editor), Lewis Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2017
• EAN: 9780197266069
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726606-9
• No. of pages: 450
• Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy