Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Balanced Historiography of Medieval Philosophy John Inglis Section One: Historical Context 1. Medieval Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition Micheal E. Marmura Section Two: Philosophy 2. A Philosophical Odyssey: Ghazzali's Intentions of the Philosophers Gabriel Said Reynolds 3. The Relationship between Averroes and al-Ghazali: as it presents itself in Averroes' Early Writings, especially in his Commentary on al-Ghazali's al-Mustasfa Frank Griffel 4. Al-Ghazali and Halevi on Philosophy and the Philosophers Barry S. Kogan Section Three: Neoplatonism 5. Projection and Time in Proclus D. Gregory MacIsaac 6. Forms of Knowledge in the Arabic Plotinus Peter Adamson 7. Secundum rei vim vel secundum cognoscentium facultatem : Knower and Known in the Consolation of Philsosophy pf Boethius and the proslogion of Anselm Wayne J. Hankey 8. Proclean 'Remaining' and Avicenna on Existence as Accident: Neoplatonic Methodology and a Defense of 'Pre-Existing' Essences Sarah Pessin 9. Augustine vs Plotinus: The Uniqueness of the Vision at Ostia Thomas Williams Section Four: Creation 10. Infinite Power and Plenitude: Two Traditions on the Necessity of the Eternal Taneli Kukkonen 11. The Challenge to Medieval Christian Philosophy: Relating Creator to Creatures David B. Burrell, C.S.C. Section Five: Virtue 12. Three Kinds of Objectivity Jonathan Jacobs 13. On Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism Daniel H. Frank 14. Porphyry, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas: A Neoplatonic Hierarchy of Virtues and Two Christian Appropriations Joshua P. Hochschild Section Six: The Latin Reception 15. William of Auvergne and the Aristotelians: The Nature of a Servant Michael Miller 16. Is God a 'What'? Avicenna, William of Auvergne, and Aquinas on the Divine Essence John P. Rosheger 17. Maimonides and Roger Bacon: Did Roger Bacon Read Maimonides? Jeremiah Hackett Index