Medieval Teachers of Freedom

Boethius, Peter Lombard and Aquinas on Creation from Nothing

Marco Antonio Andreacchio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

108 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-52236-4 (ISBN)

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Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation. From three representative authors we learn that the doctrine of divine creation is supposed to invite understanding of the relation between artistic freedom and natural necessity, of the very essence of causality, and thereby of the nexus between experience (our world of empirical determinations) and reality (the absolute indetermination of eternal being). Most importantly, medieval scholarship shows us that the problems it addresses are originally inherent in the understanding itself, whereby the question of being emerges as inseparable from the question of interpretation.

Marco Antonio Andreacchio was awarded a doctorate from the University of IIllinois for his interpretation of Sino-Japanese philosophical classics in dialogue with Western counterparts and a doctorate from Cambridge University for his work on Dante’s Platonic interpretation of religious authority. Andreacchio has taught at various higher education institutions and published systematically on problems of a political-philosophical nature.

Prefatory Remarks: The "Poetic Telos" of the Present Study

Introduction

"Poetic Reason" as Key to Reading Medieval Authors

Theology or Philosophy? A False Dilemma

A Universe from Nothing beyond Theology?

Medieval Scholarship as Guide in Interpretation?

Aristotle or Plato? Another false dilemma

Introduction to the problem of Context

Medieval Platonism Beyond Intellectual History

Medieval Platonism

Medieval Platonic Hermeneutics

The Problem of Creation

Creation from Nothing?

Divine Creation as Key to Freedom

What is Freedom?

Emanationism vs. Voluntarism

Creation and the Problem of Omnipotence

Logos as Key to Creation

The Essence of Human Freedom: Creation "from Nothing" as Divine Intellective Emanation

Eternity and Dialogue

Medieval Teachers of Freedom

The Philosophical Heart of Medieval Scholarship

The Problem of Voluntarism

From Intelligent Design Back to Platonism

Being and Nothingness

Evil

Creation and Platonic Ideas

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	1-032-52236-4 / 1032522364
ISBN-13	978-1-032-52236-4 / 9781032522364
Zustand	Neuware