God and Reason in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780521802796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 408 str.

Edward Grant

Opis

The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology, and to a much lesser extent in medicine and law. The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age of superstition, barbarism, and unreason.

Recenzje

'… this book provides a good introduction to the uses of logic and reason in the medieval university as well as a strong corrective to the still current view of the middle ages as a period of intellectual sterility.' History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The emergence of a transformed Europe in the twelfth century; 2. Reason asserts itself: the challenge to authority in the Early Middle Ages to 1200; 3. Reason takes hold: Aristotle and the Medieval University; 4. Reason in action: logic in the Faculty of Arts; 5. Reason in action: natural philosophy in the Faculty of Arts; 6. Reason in action: theology in the Faculty of Arts; 7. The assault on the Middle Ages; Conclusion: the culture and spirit of 'poking around'.