John Duns Scotus Selected Writings on Ethics

by Williams, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780199673407
• ISBN10: 0199673403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-05-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings on Ethics includes extended discussions-and as far as possible, complete questions-on divine and human freedom, the moral attributes of God, the relationship between will and intellect, moral and intellectual virtue, practical reasoning, charity, the metaphysics of goodness and rightness, the various acts, affections, and passions of the will, justice, the natural law, sin, marriage and divorce, the justification for private property, and lying and perjury.

Relying on the recently completed critical edition of the Ordinatio and other critically edited texts, this collection presents the most reliable and up-to-date versions of Scotus's work in an accessible and philosophically informed translation.

Author Biography

Thomas Williams, University of South Florida

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).