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Medieval Political Philosophy

A Sourcebook
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456 Seiten
2011 | 2nd New edition
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-7681-5 (ISBN)
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A new edition of the classic anthology of Christian, Muslin, and Jewish political philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, has been a classroom favorite since its publication in 1963. When it first appeared, it was the only anthology of medieval political philosophy to contain major texts from all three Western monotheistic traditions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—and that claim remains true today. This new edition of this classic text of political philosophy—revised and enlarged by Joshua Parens and Joseph C. Macfarland—will make accessible to today's students the insights of these profound medieval thinkers.


Prior to the modern separation of religion from politics, these medieval thinkers explored a variety of approaches to the relation between religion and politics—approaches that prompted renewed interest in a world divided over how best to relate the two. For the authors gathered in this volume—including Alfarabi, Alghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Judah Halevi, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius of Dacia, and Dante Alighieri among many others—there was a greater uniformity of general intention than at any other period. All of these authors studied the works of classical political philosophy and considered in a variety of ways the implications of this political thought for their contemporary situation in a monotheistic religious community.

Joshua Parens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the author of Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi’s "Summary of Plato’s ‘Laws’" and An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions. Joseph C. Macfarland is a tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

General IntroductionPART I: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN ISLAM

Edited by Joshua ParensIntroduction1. Alfarabi, The Enumeration of the Sciences

Charles E. Butterworth, trans.2. Alfarabi, The Book of Religion

Charles E. Butterworth, trans.3. Alfarabi, The Political Regime

Charles E. Butterworth, trans.4. Alfarabi, The Attainment of Happiness

Muhsin Mahdi, trans.5. Alfarabi, Plato's Laws

Muhsin Mahdi, trans.6. Avicenna, On the Divisions of the Rational Sciences

Muhsin Mahdi, trans.7. Avicenna, Healing: Metaphysics

Michael E. Marmura, trans.8. Alghazali, The Deliverer from Error

Richard J. McCarthy, SJ, trans.9. Ibn Bajja, The Governance of the Solitary

Lawrence Berman, trans.10. Ibn Tufayl, Hayy the Son of Yaqzan

George N. Atiyeh, trans.11. Averroes, The Decisive Treatise

Charles E. Butterworth, trans.Bibliography and Further ReadingPART II: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN JUDAISM

Edited by Joshua ParensIntroduction12. Saadya Gaon, The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs

Alexander Altmann, trans.13. Judah Halevi, The Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion, or, The Kuzari

Barry Kogan and Lawrence Berman, trans.14. Maimonides, Logic

Muhsin Mahdi, trans.15. Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed

Ralph Lerner, Muhsin Mahdi, and Joshua Parens, trans.16. Maimonides, Eight Chapters

Joshua Parens, trans.17. Maimonides, Letter on Astrology

Ralph Lerner, trans.18. Isaac Polgar, The Support of Religion

Charles H. Manekin, trans.19. Abravanel, Commentary on the Bible

Robert Sacks, trans.Bibliography and Further ReadingPART III: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIANITY

Edited by Joseph C. MacfarlandIntroduction20. Roger Bacon, Opus Maius: Moral Philosophy

Richard McKeon, Donald McCarthy, and Ernest L. Fortin, trans.21. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics

Charles I. Litzinger, trans.22. Thomas Aquinas and Peter of Auvergne, Commentary on the Politics

Ernest L. Fortin, Peter D. O'Neill, and Joseph C. Macfarland, trans.23. Boethius of Dacia, On the Supreme Good

John F. Wippel, trans.24. Condemnation of 219 Propositions

Ernest L. Fortin and Peter D. O’Neill, trans.25. Giles of Rome, On Ecclesiastical Power

R. W. Dyson, trans.26. Ptolemy of Lucca, On the Government of Rulers

James M. Blythe, trans.27. Dante Alighieri, Monarchy

Philip H. Wicksteed, trans.28. Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of the Peace

Alan Gewirth, trans.29. William of Ockham, The Dialogue

John Kilcullen, trans.Bibliography and Further ReadingIndex

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Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-8014-7681-X / 080147681X
ISBN-13 978-0-8014-7681-5 / 9780801476815
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