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Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.
List of contents
- Series Foreword by Brian Davies
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. LIVING
- The Life and Works of Robert Kilwardby
- The Life
- The Works
- II. BEING
- Introduction
- The Metaphysics of Plurality
- Matter
- Form
- The Letter to Peter of Conflans
- Introduction
- Animal Generation
- Active Potencies
- The Human Soul
- Is the Soul (the) One?
- The Unity of Form(s)
- At Oxford in 1277
- Excursus: The Human Soul in the Sentences
- Motion
- A Questionnaire
- Celestial Motion
- Time
- III. BEING LOGICAL
- Introduction
- Words, Thoughts and Things
- Interpretation
- The Category of Relation
- IV. KNOWING
- Introduction
- Perception
- On the Reception of Sensible Species
- Attention and Activity
- Cognition
- Introduction
- Thinking
- Representing and Instantiating
- Universality
- Scientific Knowledge
- Introduction
- Knowledge
- Demonstration
- Pre-existing Knowledge
- First Principles
- Principles
- Conditions for Predication
- Signs of Affections
- What Can Be Demonstrated?
- Definitions
- Disciplining the Disciplines
- Subalternation
- V. BEHAVING
- Introduction
- Ethics: The Science of Happiness
- The Good
- The Cause of Happiness
- The Virtues
- Voluntary Action
- VI. BELIEVING
- Introduction
- Theology
- Divine Trinity
- Where from? Creation as a Kind of Change
- Angels
- Creator and Creatures
- Which One? The Free Choice of the Will
- By Heaven's Grace
- Gratis: Sin and Evil
- On Sacraments
- Faith
- VII. INCARNATING
- Introduction
- I Assume
- I Know
- I Suffer
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
About the author
José Filipe Silva is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the Director of the ERC research project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550, and the author of Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul: Plurality of Forms and Censorship in the Thirteenth Century.
Summary
Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.
