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The Immateriality of the Human Mind, the Semantics of Analogy, and the Conceivability of God (Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysic)

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Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
116
Edition
Unabridged
Category
Library

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The Immateriality of the Human Mind, the Semantics of Analogy, and the Conceivability of God brings together the work of experts in the field of medieval philosophy to consider the nature of God and the soul, what can be known of the divine essence and the semantics of theological discourse from the perspectives of medieval theology (both natural and revealed), logic and natural philosophy. In his capacity as an arts master commenting on a work of natural philosophy, Aristotle s De Anima, John Buridan discusses the immateriality of the intellect against the background of the competing, mutually exclusive views of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Aquinas takes up the same issue, but in a more properly theological setting, in his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, where Aquinas argues that the being of the intellect is independent of matter. Thomas de Vio Cajetan considers the semantics of theological discourse or God talk in order to derive a proper means to speak of the divine essence in his De Nominum Analogia; and Anselm of Canterbury s Proslogion seeks with unaided reason to develop a single proof whereby those who think seriously of anything as that than which nothing greater can be thought may know that God exists.

✦ Table of Contents


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
JOHN BURIDAN ON THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE INTELLECT
AQUINAS’S PROOFS OF THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE INTELLECT FROM THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN THOUGHT
COMMENTS ON GYULA KLIMA, β€œAQUINAS’S PROOFS OF THE IMMATERIALITY OF INTELLECT”
REPLY TO BOB PASNAU ON AQUINAS’S PROOFS FOR THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE INTELLECT
LOGIC OR METAPHYSICS IN CAJETAN’S THEORY OF ANALOGY
ON WHETHER ID QUO NIHIL MAIUS COGITARI POTEST IS IN THE UNDERSTANDING
APPENDIX
CONTRIBUTORS


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