SUB Hamburg B/110901 MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ASourcebook !1C©ND BDITIi EDITED BY JOSHUA PARENS and JOSEPH C. MACFARLAND 1st edition edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS * ITHACA AND LONDON CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix General Introduction " 1 PART I POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM Edited by Joshua Parens Introduction 11 1. Alfarabi, The Enumeration of the Sciences 18 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH 2. Alfarabi, The Book of Religion 24 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH 3. Alfarabi, The Political Regime 36 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH 4. Alfarabi, The Attainment of Happiness 56 TRANSLATED BY MUHSIN MAHDI 5. Alfarabi, Plato's Laws 72 TRANSLATED BY MUHSIN MAHDI 6. Avicenna, On the Divisions of the Rational Sciences 74 TRANSLATED BY MUHSIN MAHDI 7. Avicenna, Healing: Metaphysics 10 77 TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL E. MARMURA 8. Alghazali, The Deliverer from Error 89 TRANSLATED BY RICHARD J. MCCARTHY, SJ 9. Ibn Bajja, The Governance of the Solitary 97 TRANSLATED BY LAWRENCE BERMAN 10. Ibn Tufzyl, Hayy the Son ofYaqzan - 105 TRANSLATED BY GEORGE N. ATIYEH vi Contents 11. Averroes, The Decisive Treatise 123 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH Bibliography and Further Reading 141 PART II POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN JUDAISM Edited by Joshua Parens Introduction 147 12. Saadya Gaon, The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs 157 TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER ALTMANN 13. ]udah Halevi, The Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion, or, The Kuzari 162 TRANSLATED BY BARRY KOGAN (AND LAWRENCE BERMAN) 14. Maimonides, Logic 180 TRANSLATED BY MUHSIN MAHDI 15. Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed 183 TRANSLATED BY RALPH LERNER, MUHSIN MAHDI (AND JOSHUA PARENS) 16. Maimonides, Eight Chapters 203 TRANSLATED BY JOSHUA PARENS 17. Maimonides, Letter on Astrology 206 TRANSLATED BY RALPH LERNER 18. Isaac Polgar, The Support of Religion 208 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES H. MANEKIN ~ 19. Abravanel, Commentary on the Bible 220 TRANSLATED BY ROBERT SACKS Bibliography and Further Reading 231 PART III POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIANITY Edited by Joseph C. Macfarland Introduction 237 20. Roger Bacon, Opus Maius: Moral Philosophy 248 TRANSLATED BY RICHARD MCKEON, DONALD MCCARTHY, AND ERNEST FORTIN 21. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 268 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES I. LITZINGER 22. Thomas Aquinas and Peter of Auvergne, Commentary on the Politics 287 TRANSLATED BY ERNEST L. FORTIN, PETER D. O'NEILL, AND JOSEPH C. MACFARLAND Contents vii 23. Boethius of Dacia, On the Supreme Good 314 TRANSLATED BY JOHN F. WIPPEL 24. Condemnation of 219 Propositions 320 TRANSLATED BY ERNEST L. FORTIN AND PETER D. O'NEILL 25. Giles of Rome, On Ecclesiastical Power 333 TRANSLATED BY R. W. DYSON 26. Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers 345 TRANSLATED BY JAMES M. BLYTHE 27. Dante Alighieri, Monarchy •. 360 TRANSLATED BY PHILIP H. WICKSTEED 28. Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of the Peace 376 TRANSLATED BY ALAN GEWIRTH 29. William of O ckham, The Dialogue 410 TRANSLATED BY JOHN KILCULLEN Bibliography and Further Reading 431 Index 435.