
The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century
Richard C. Dales(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1995
Book
Leather / fine binding
VII, 214 pages
978-90-04-10296-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century traces the Latin scholastics' attempt to deal with two essentially incompatible notions of the human soul: the scientific view of Aristotle which considers it to be a form, and the Augustinian view of the soul as a substance in its own right, from Gundissalinus to the Parisian condemnation of 1277. It traces the growing disarray of Latin notions of the soul, the growth of the monopsychism controversy, the solutions of Bonaventure and Aquinas, through the variety of responses to Aquinas's De unitate intellectus. Among its conclusions are that the traditional dualism diminished with time, that there was little agreement among the "heterodox Aristotelians," and that, with two exceptions, no one in the thirteenth century taught the present position of the Catholic Church, that the rational soul is infused at conception.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10296-5 (9789004102965)
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Person
Richard C. Dales, Ph.D. (1955) in History, University of Colorado, is the John R. Hubbard Professor of European History at the University of Southern California. He has published extensively in medieval intellectual history including Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World, (Brill, 1990).