The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400-1700

by Friedman, Russell L.; Nielsen, Lauge Olaf

• ISBN13: 9781402016318
• ISBN10: 140201631X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The thirteen articles brought together in this volume explore key aspects of the transmission of learning and the transformation of thought from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Focusing on important topics in early modern metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory, the contributions gathered here view developments in the early modern period against the backdrop of late-medieval scholasticism. This approach not only reveals the continuity of Western intellectual life in a period of profound change, but also makes it possible to identify with precision what is original in early modern thought. The topics dealt with include metaphysics as a science, the rise of probabilistic modality, freedom of the human will, as well as the role and validity of logical reasoning in speculative theology. The volume will be of interest to scholars who work on medieval and early modern philosophy, theology, and intellectual history.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction	1	(190)
2. Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit
Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen	9	(28)
3. Ockham and Locke on Mental Language
Claude Panaccio	37	(16)
4. Metaphysics as a Discipline: From the "Transcendental Philosophy of the Ancients" to Kant's Notion of Transcendental Philosophy
Ludger Honnefelder	53	(22)
5. God as First Principle and Metaphysics as a Science
Joël Biard	75	(24)
6. Gabriel Biel and Later-Medieval Trinitarian Theology
Russell L. Friedman	99	(22)
7. The Question of the Validity of Logic in Late Medieval Thought
Simo Knuuttila	121	(22)
8. Uses of Philosophy in Reformation Thought: Melanchthon, Schegk, and Crellius
Sachiko Kusukawa	143	(22)
9. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: Auriol, Pomponazzi, and Luther on "Scholastic Subtleties"
Chris Schabel	165	(26)
10. The Ontological Source of Logical Possibility in Catholic Second Scholasticism
Jeffrey Coombs	191	(40)
11. The Renaissance of Statistical Modalities in Early Modern Scholasticism
Sven K. Knebel	231	(22)
12. Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler's Opus Logicum
Gino Roncaglia	253	(56)
13. Leibniz on Compossibility: Some Scholastic Sources
Fabrizio Mondadori	309	(30)
Index of Names	339