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Thomas Williams revision of Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh s classic compendium of writings in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish medieval philosophical traditions expands the breadth of coverage that helped make its predecessor the best known and most widely used collection of its kind.The third edition builds on the strengths of the second by preserving its essential shape while adding several important new texts including works by Augustine, Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Anselm, al-F r b , al-Ghaz l , Ibn Rushd, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus and featuring new translations of many others.The volume has also been redesigned and its bibliographies updated with the needs of a new generation of students in mind.
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Philosophy in the Middle Ages The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions Third Edition
Edited by
Arthur Hyman, James J. Walsh, and
Thomas Williams
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge
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CONTENTS
Preface to the Third Edition
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Introduction
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Early Medieval Christian Philosophy Augustine l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The Teacher (complete) On Free Choice of the Will 2.3-3.6 Reconsiderations 1.9 On the Trinity 15.12.21 Confessions 2.4-2.10 Confessions 7.9-7.16 Confessions 11.3-11.28 City of God 19.3-19.28
Boethius 9. The Consolation of Philosophy 3.9-end 10. Contra Eutychen 1.1-1.71 11. On the Trinity 1.7-2.58 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 12. The Mystical Theology (complete)
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John Scottus Eriugena 13. On the Division of �ature
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Anselm 14. 'vfonologion 1-4 15. Proslogion and the Exchange with Gaunilo .
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Peter Abelard
184 202
16. Glosses on Porphyry 17. Ethics, or Know Thyself Islamic Philosophy
220 18. The Principles of Existing Things (complete)
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Ibn Sina 19. 20. 21. 22.
The Salvation, "\.1etaphysics" 2.1-2.5, 2.12, 2.13, 2.18, 2.19 The Cure, "\.1etaphysics" 6.1--{i.2 The Salvation, "Psychology" 6.9, 6.12, 6.13 The Cure, "The Soul" 5.7
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Al-Ghazali 23. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, On the Eternity of the World 24. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Concerning the :--.; atural Sciences
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Ibn Rushd 25. 26. 27. 28.
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The Decisive Treatise (complete) Long Commentary on ' The Soul" 3.4 Long Commentary on ' The Soul" 3.5, 3.18--3.20 The Incoherence of