Tobias Hoffmann (Washington DC The Catholic University of America)

Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book in English investigating the medieval debate about free will, one of the central themes in medieval philosophy. It sheds new light particularly on how medieval thinkers dealt with the most difficult test case for free will: the possibility of angels â i.e., ideal agents â choosing evil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781316608838
• ISBN-10: 1316608832
• Artikelnr.: 64223070

Autorenporträt

Tobias Hoffmann is Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has edited and co-edited several anthologies, including A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy (2012) and Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (with Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams, Cambridge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Free Will: 1. Free will with and without Aristotle
2. The psychological turn and the rise of intellectualism
3. Voluntarism and the condemnation of intellectualism
4. Intermediary theories and strict intellectualism
5. Refinements and radicalizations
Part II. Whence Evil?: 6. Does evil have a cause?
7. The will as the cause of evil
Part III. Angelic Sin: 8. Intellectualist accounts of the angelic fall
9. Voluntarist and intermediary accounts of the angelic fall
10. Necessary (and free?) obstinacy.