Nicholas of Amsterdam

Commentary on the Old Logic. Critical edition with introduction and indexes

Egbert P. Bos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

383 Seiten

2016
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-1468-3 (ISBN)

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Master Nicholas of Amsterdam was a prominent master of arts in Germany during the first half of the fifteenth century. He composed various commentaries on Aristotle’s works. One of these commentaries is on the logica vetus, the old logic, viz. on Porphyry’s Isagoge and on Aristotle’s Categories and On Interpretation. This commentary is edited and introduced here.
Nicholas is a ‘modernus’ – as opposed to the ‘antiqui’, who were realists – which means that he is a conceptualist belonging to the university tradition that accepted John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360 or 1361) and Marsilius of Inghen (ca. 1340-1396) as its masters. In medieval philosophy, a parallel between thinking and reality is generally upheld. Nicholas makes a sharp distinction between the two; this may be interpreted as a step towards a separation between the two realms, as is common in philosophy in later centuries.
Other characteristics of Nicholas are that he defends the position that science has its place in a proposition, and does not simply follow reality. Furthermore, he emphasizes the part played by individual things.
Fifteenth-century philosophy has hardly been studied, mainly because that century has long been considered unoriginal. Nicholas of Amsterdam certainly deserves the historian’s interest in order to evaluate how medieval philosophy prepared the way for modern philosophy.

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. 1. Preliminary remarks; 4. 2. Nicholas of Amsterdam: life and works; 5. 3. Curriculum of the philosophical faculty of the University of Rostock; 6. 4. Form of the questions; 7. 5. The commentary as an exercitium ('exercise'); 8. 6. Principles of Nicholas' philosophy in his Commentary on the ars vetus; 9. 7. Equivocal concepts; 10. 8. Category of quantity; 11. 9. Nicholas of Amsterdam on modal propositions; 12. 10. Principle of non-contradiction; 13. 11. Conclusions; 14. 12. Manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 500; 15. 13. Edition basis, orthography, syntax; 16. Appendix: Nicholas of Amsterdam and a tract on Insolubilia; 17. Bibliography; 18. Edition of Nicolai Theoderici de Amsterdam. Exercitium veteris artis. MS Munchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 500, ff. 146r-254v; 19. Tabula quaestionum; 20. Tabula siglorum; 21. Tituli quaestionum; 22. Exercitium in Porphyrium; 23. Exercitium in Praedicamenta; 24. Exercitium in Peri hermeneias; 25. Appendices; 26. Indices to the edition; 27. Index of terms; 28. Index of ancient and medieval names; 29. Index of ancient and medieval texts referred to; 30. Index of manuscripts referred to

Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie ; 58
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	905 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	90-272-1468-9 / 9027214689
ISBN-13	978-90-272-1468-3 / 9789027214683
Zustand	Neuware