Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought

Corey Barnes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

262 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-75651-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology. It argues the history of final causality is most profitably understood according to the interplay of regularity, order, and intentionality as interpretive categories. Within this analytic framework, the author explores the history and theological implications of final causality from Aristotle to Nicole Oresme, utilizing shifts in the dominant interpretive category to clarify how final causality could change from one of four co-equal explanatory strategies in Aristotle to the cause of causes in Avicenna to a merely metaphorical cause in Walter Chatton. Theological debates – ranging from questions of creation, the relationship of primary and secondary causality and of the ultimate good to secondary goods, the autonomy or instrumentality of nature, and the compatibility of chance with providence – motivated many of these changes. The chapters examine final causality in Aristotle and the commentorial tradition from late antiquity to medieval Arabic sources and then consider in detail various scholastic understandings and uses of final causality. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of historical theology, systematic theology, scholastic thought, and medieval philosophy.

Corey Barnes is Robert S. Danforth Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College, USA.

1. The Beginnings of the End: Aristotle on Natural Final Causality 2. After Aristotle: Commentators, Critics, and Harmonizers 3. Arabic Commentators and the Bifurcation of Aristotelian Interpretation 4. Nature and the Good in Scholastic Receptions of Aristotle 5. The Order of Finality in Scholastic Thought 6. Finality and Intentionality

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-75651-9 / 1032756519
ISBN-13	978-1-032-75651-6 / 9781032756516
Zustand	Neuware