A Survey of Medieval Philosophy
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These disks contain my version of Paul Spade's expository text and his translated texts. They were converted from WordStar disk format to WordPerfect 5.1 disk format, and then I used a bunch of macros and some hands-on work to change most of the FancyFont formatting codes into WordPerfect codes. Many transferred nicely. Some of them are still in the text (anything beginning with a backslash is a FancyFont code). Some I just erased without knowing what they were for. All of the files were cleaned up with one macro, and some of them have been further doctored with additional macros I wrote later and additional hand editing. This explains why some are quite neat, and others somewhat cluttered. In some cases I changed Spade's formatting to make the printout look better (to me); often this is because I lost some of his original formatting. I have occasionally corrected obvious typos, and in at least one case I changed an `although' to a `but' so that the line would fit on the same page. With these exceptions, I haven't intentionally changed any of the text. All of the charts made by graphics are missing entirely (though in a few cases I perserved fragments so you can sort of tell what it was like). Some of the translations had numbers down the side of the page to indicate location in the original text; these are all lost. Translation 1.5 (Aristotle) was not on the disk I got, so it is listed in the table of contents, but you won't find it. This text is a wonderful source, and I have benefitted a lot from it. Paul was gracious enough to make it publically available, but he retains all rights. Please respect them. Terry Parsons A Survey of Mediaeval Philosophy by Paul Vincent Spade Volume 1 : Survey Version 2.0 August 29, 1985 Copyright 1985 Paul Vincent Spade All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted to copy and distribute this document for any non-commercial purpose. Any use of this material for commercial advantage without prior written consent of the author is prohibited. You can get too fancy about these things. You can also not get fancy enough. Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister Table of Contents Volume 1: Survey Chapter Introduction and Select General Bibliography chapter 1 Scope of the Survey chapter 1 Select General Bibliography chapter 1 Versions of This Survey chapter 1 Methodological Considerations chapter 2 Notes to Chapter 2 chapter 2 The Greek Background to Mediaeval Philosophy, or Everything You Need to Know about the Greeks chapter 3 Plato chapter 3 Aristotle chapter 3 Plotinus chapter 3 "Cosmograms" chapter 3 Fig. 3-1: Plato's World chapter 3 Fig. 3-2: Aristotle's World chapter 3 Fig. 3-3: Plotinus' World chapter 3 Very Select Bibliography chapter 3 The Two Main Ingredients of Mediaeval Philosophy chapter 4 The Greek Tradition chapter 4 Points to Note chapter 4 Christian Doctrine chapter 4 Two Problems for an Early Christian chapter 4 First Problem: The Soul chapter 4 Second Problem: God chapter 4 The Doctrine of Creation chapter 4 Notes to Chapter 4 chapter 4 The Early Patristic Period to Augustine chapter 5 Some Preliminary Notes on Patrology chapter 5 Standard Studies and Reference Works chapter 5 Collections of Primary Texts chapter 5 Time Span chapter 5 Terminology chapter 5 Groupings of the Fathers chapter 5 The Apostolic Fathers chapter 5 Greek Apologists chapter 5 \h.75iAnti-Pagan Authors chapter 5 \h.75iAnti-Heretical Apologists chapter 5 The Alexandrines chapter 5 Latin Apologists chapter 5 The Cappadocians chapter 5 Main Dates in the Political and Ecclesiastical History of the Time chapter 5 Notes to Chapter 5 chapter 5 Patristic Chronology chapter 6 Table 6-1: Patristic Chronology chapter 6 Early Christian Attitudes to Greek Philosophy chapter 7 Contra chapter 7 Pro chapter 7 Summary chapter 7 Notes to Chapter 7 chapter 7 Justin Martyr chapter 8 Notes to Chapter 8 chapter 8 Origen chapter 9 Origen's Reckless Deed chapter 9 Origen's Philosophical Views chapter 9 Gregory of Nyssa chapter 10 Notes to Chapter 10 chapter 10 Augustine: Some Preliminaries chapter 11 Selected Bibliography on Augustine chapter 11 Collections of Texts chapter 11 Secondary Literature chapter 11 First Things to Know about Augustine chapter 11 Preview of Coming Attractions chapter 11 Notes to Chapter 11 chapter 11 Notes on Augustine's Confessions chapter 12 Augustine: Skepticism chapter 13 Augustine: Soul and Body chapter 14 Augustine: Evil chapter 15 What Is Evil and How Does It Arise? chapter 15 Fig. 15-1: Augustine's Hierarchy chapter 15 Fig. 15-2: The Manichean Hierarchy chapter 15 All About Free Will chapter 15 Augustine: Perception chapter 16 Augustine: Theory of the Teacher chapter 17 Augustine: Proof for the Existence of God chapter 18 Two Kinds of Proofs for the Existence of God chapter 18 Augustine's Proof chapter 18 Notes to Chapter 18 chapter 18 Augustine: Theory of Illumination and Divine Ideas chapter 19 The General Theory of Illumination chapter 19 The Special Theory of Illumination chapter 19 Concepts chapter 19 Theories That Won't Work chapter 19 Propositions or Judgments chapter 19 Problems with the Theory of Illumination chapter 19 Boethius: Life and Works chapter 20 Life chapter 20 Works chapter 20 Bibliographical Notes chapter 20 Preview of Coming Attraction chapter 20 Notes to Chapter 20 chapter 20 Boethius: Overview of The Consolation of Philosophy chapter 21 General Remarks chapter 21 Particular Notes chapter 21 Boethius: Foreknowledge and Free Will chapter 22 The Problem chapter 22 The Augustinian Response chapter 22 Boethius' Own Account chapter 22 Notes to Chapter 22 chapter 22 Boethius: On Universals chapter 23 What Is the Problem of Universals? chapter 23 Boethius' Commentary on Porphyry chapter 23 Porphyry's Three Questions chapter 23 The Argument against Universals chapter 23 The Argument for Universals chapter 23 Boethius' Own View chapter 23 The View in the Theological Tractates chapter 23 The Principle of Individuation chapter 23 Matter chapter 23 Accidents chapter 23 What's Wrong with the Comment;ary-View chapter 23 A Strongly Realist View chapter 23 Fig. 23-1: Boethian Layer-Cake Ontology chapter 23 Boethius: on the Hebdomads chapter 24 Boethius: Philosophical Lexicon chapter 25 Pseudo-Denis the Areopagite chapter 26 The Man and His Writings chapter 26 Doctrine chapter 26 Bibliographical Note chapter 26 Notes to Chapter 26 chapter 26 John Scottus Eriugena chapter 27 Life and Works chapter 27 Bibliographical Note chapter 27 Doctrine chapter 27 Table 27-1: Eriugena's Fourfold Division of Nature chapter 27 Anselm of Canterbury: Preliminaries chapter 28 Select Bibliography of Anselm chapter 28 Translations chapter 28 Studies chapter 28 Historical Background chapter 28 Anselm's Life, and Remarks on Other Things chapter 28 Notes to Chapter 28 chapter 28 Faith and Reason in Anselm chapter 29 Anselm: The Monologion Arguments for the Existence of God chapter 30 The Arguments in Ch. 1 chapter 30 The Argument in Ch. 3 chapter 30 Anselm's Monologion Discussion of How God Can and Cannot Be Said to Be in Space and Time chapter 31 Anselm: The Ontological Argument chapter 32 Remarks on Anselm's Reply to Gaunilo chapter 33 The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (& Slightly Before) chapter 34 Dialectic and Anti-Dialectic in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries chapter 35 Fig. 35-1: Map of Possible Histories of the World chapter 35 Relations of Influence in the Twelfth Century chapter 36 Fig. 36-1: Relations of Influence in the Twelfth Century chapter 36 Background to the Problem of Universals in the Twelfth Century ch 37 Bibliographical Note chapter 37 Notes to Chapter 37 chapter 37 Corrections to the Translation of John of Salisbury and Peter Abelard chapter 38 John of Salisbury chapter 38 Peter Abelard's Glosses on Porphyry chapter 38 Outline of Abelard's Discussion of Universals in the Glosses on Porphyry chapter 39 Abelard's Theory of Universals chapter 40 William of Champeaux's First Theory chapter 40 First Objection chapter 40 First Reply to Objection 1 chapter 40 Refutation of the First Reply to Objection 1 chapter 40 Second Reply to the First Objection chapter 40 Refutation of the Second Reply to Objection 1 chapter 40 Abelard's Second Objection chapter 40 A Possible Reply William Might Make (Although There Is No Evidence Whatever That He Actually Did) chapter 40 Abelard's Probable Reply to This Hypothetical Response chapter 40 Abelard's Third Objection chapter 40 A Possible Reply William Might Have Made (But Once Again There Is Absolutely No Evidence That He Did) chapter 40 The Fourth Objection chapter 40 William Might Reply (But We Don't Know That He Did) chapter 40 William of Champeaux's Second Theory chapter 40 Joscelin of Soisson's View chapter 40 Walter of Mortagne's View chapter 40 William's Own View chapter 40 A Possible Reply chapter 40 Refutation of Reply chapter 40 Abelard's Own Theory chapter 40 Abelard's Ethics chapter 41 The School of Chartres chapter 42 Bernard of Chartres chapter 42 Gilbert of Poitiers chapter 42 Arabic and Jewish Philosophy chapter 43 General Bibliography chapter 43 Arabic Philosophy chapter 43 Jewish Philosophy chapter 43 Miscellaneous Topics from Arabic and Jewish Philosophy chapter 43 (1) The Distinction Between Essence and Existence chapter 43 (2) Distinction Between Agent (Moving) Cause and Efficient Cause chapter 43 (3) Universal Hylomorphism and the Plurality of Forms chapter 43 (4) Eternity of the World chapter 43 (5) Maimonides on Talking about God chapter 43 Translations and the Rise of Universitites chapter 44 Select Bibliography chapter 44 Translators chapter 44 At Constantinople chapter 44 Sicily chapter 44 Spain chapter 44 Other important translators chapter 44 Universities chapter 44 Aristotelian Epistemology and Its Arabic Developments chapter 45 Aristotle's Theory chapter 45 Table 45-1: The Terminology of Aristotelian Epistemology chapter 45 Themistius chapter 45 Alexander of Aphrodisias chapter 45 Alfarabi chapter 45 Avicenna chapter 45 Averroes chapter 45 Preview of Coming Attractions chapter 46 The Early Thirteenth Century chapter 47 Chronology of Late Mediaeval Philosophy chapter 48 Fig.