Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781032291062 / Twarda / 2024 / 352 str.

Opis

This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the 13th to 18th centuries. By crossing the conventional dividing line between the medieval and early modern periods, the volume draws important new insights on the historical development of voluntarism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Voluntarism: Central Philosophical Issues and Problems Sonja Schierbaum and Jörn Müller  Part 1: Psychological Voluntarism  1. Does Voluntarism Lead to Irrationalism? A Medieval Case Study Dominik Perler  2. Voluntarism and Aristotelian akrasia: Radicalizing Views on Incontinence around 1277 Jörn Müller  3. Henry of Ghent and John of Pouilly on “Aristotle’s Prophecy about Incontinence” Tobias Hoffmann  4. Descartes and Leibniz on the Nature of the Will Stephan Schmid  5. Faith and Will in Francisco de Vitoria Christophe Grellard  Part 2: Ethical Voluntarism  6. The Blind Will Is No King: Henry of Ghent’s Voluntarism and the Act of Choice Michael Szlachta  7. Descartes’s Conception of Freedom: Between Voluntarism and Intellectualism Ariane Cäcilie Schneck  8. Hobbes against liberum arbitrium Thomas Pink  9. Freedom of the Will and the Passions in Pufendorf’s Action Theory Heikki Haara  10. Heavenly “Freedom” in Fourteenth-Century Voluntarism Eric W. Hagedorn  Part 3: Theological Voluntarism  11. From Moral to Modal Voluntarism: Descartes on the Status of Eternal Truths Sebastian Bender  12. Grounding the Principle of Plenitude, or Why Leibniz Rehabilitated Divine Will Ursula Renz and Sarah Tropper  13. Catharine Trotter Cockburn against Theological Voluntarism Ruth Boeker  14. Crusius against the Arbitrariness of Moral Obligation: An Alternative to Theological Voluntarism? Sonja Schierbaum

O autorze

Jörn Müller is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on practical philosophy, anthropology, and philosophical psychology. His publications include monographs on Aristotle’s ethics, Albert the Great and Henry of Ghent, as well as on weakness of will from Socrates to Duns Scotus.

Sonja Schierbaum is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group “Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720–1780)” at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of Ockham’s Assumption of Mental Speech (2014) and has co-edited a volume on late-medieval conceptions of self-knowledge (with Dominik Perler, 2014).