This book is about the development of scholastic argumentation in thirteenth-century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination. Investigated are ten theologians from Robert Grosseteste to Duns Scotus, all commonly associated with a so-called Augustinian current. The analysis focuses on theory of knowledge and of mind, relating both to the account of human understanding of ...
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This book is about the development of scholastic argumentation in thirteenth-century Europe. It traces the rise of a formal model of science and resulting accommodations in traditional attitudes towards human cognition, especially with regard to the role of divine illumination. Investigated are ten theologians from Robert Grosseteste to Duns Scotus, all commonly associated with a so-called Augustinian current. The analysis focuses on theory of knowledge and of mind, relating both to the account of human understanding of divinity in the world. Of interest to historians of medieval culture and historians of science, the book lays bare the intellectual transformations ultimately setting the stage for the emergence of modern science. It furthermore advances a novel argument about the reality of "Augustinianism" and "Aristotelianism" in high-medieval thought. All volumes of the print edition are available in individual e-books: 9789004531444 (volume 1) - 9789004531451 (volume 2).
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Two volumes. Volume One: xii, 250pp. (2001); Volume Two: Pp. 251-611, (iii). EX-LIBRARY SET. No dust-jackets. Small bumps to upper corners of boards and a hint of a bump to one corner of one board. Just a touch of wear to covers. Text clean. Binding sound.
