Aquinas. An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker. (Pelican Books)

Frederick C. Copleston

Penguin??Books

Esta obra reune el ciclo de conferencias Martin DArcy que Copleston dicto en la Universidad de Oxford, dedicadas al examen comparativo de culturas y religiones. Comento al respecto: "no podemos dejar la tarea de acrecentar el entendimiento mutuo entre los pueblos simplemente en manos de los politicos y los comerciantes. Hay pocos filosofos y, con algunas excepciones, en general no influyen en los destinos de los pueblos de una manera visible o dramatica. Pero si deben contribuir a que se tenga una mayor conciencia de las mentalidades de otros pueblos."

Philosophies and Cultures

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

A history of medieval philosophy

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought from the ancient world to the late medieval period. A History of Medieval Philosophy is an invaluable general introduction that also includes longer treatments of such leading thinkers as Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.

A History of Medieval Philosophy

University of Notre Dame Press

Medieval Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from Medieval PhilosophyThe impression used to be given by historians of philosophy that one could profitably jump from Plato and Aristotle straight to Francis Bacon and Descartes, omitting all consideration both of post-Aristotelian Greek philosophy and of medieval thought. This attitude can, of course, be explained; but it cannot be defended with adequate reasons; nor would there now be any strong wish to defend it. For we realize better today the continuity between medieval, Renaissance, and modern philosophy. Bacon and Descartes, for example, may have inveighed against scholastic Aristotelianism; but students of Bacon and Descartes are well aware of the influence exercised upon their thought by the very philosophy which they criticized. Philosophers continued for many years to use much the same categories of thought which had been used by the medieval philosophers, and to employ in their philosophy the same principles as the medievals had employed. It would be a mistake to attribute what one may call the 'scholastic' elements in philosophies like those of Descartes, Malebranche or Leibniz to the influx of, and interest shown in, classical literature in the Renaissance period. Descartes's first philosophical studies were in the scholastic tradition; and even if his mind afterwards moved in other directions the influence of those early studies was permanent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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