Avicenna (Great Medieval Thinkers)

✍ Jon McGinnis 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

<span>Ibn Sina (980-1037), known as Avicenna in Latin, played a considerable role in the development of both Eastern and Western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics, theology, and even medicine were vast. His work was to have a s

📁 Avicenna (Great Medieval Thinkers)

✍ Jon McGinnis 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

<span>Ibn Sina (980-1037), known as Avicenna in Latin, played a considerable role in the development of both Eastern and Western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics, theology, and even medicine were vast. His work was to have a s

Anselm (Great Medieval Thinkers)

📁 Anselm (Great Medieval Thinkers)

✍ Sandra Visser, Thomas Williams 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Before finding this book, I had dismissed Anselm's version of the Ontological argument right along with Gaunilo. The clear presentation in this book made me see Anselm in a new (and more positive) light. Excellent work!

Boethius (Great Medieval Thinkers)

📁 Boethius (Great Medieval Thinkers)

✍ John Marenbon 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate and free will, and the problem of divine foreknowled