Aristotle's De anima shaped philosophical debates far beyond the Middle Ages and gave rise to a number of theories about the nature of the soul, its various functions and its relation to the body. The ten contributions to this book, a special issue of the journal Vivarium, examine some of these theories in the period between Albertus Magnus and Descartes. They pay particular attention to the question of how the metaphysical status of the soul and its parts was explained, and analyze Aristotelian accounts of cognitive activities such as perceiving, imagining and thinking. The ten...

Kann die menschliche Vernunft theologische Wahrheiten mit Evidenz erkennen? Diese Thematik ist Kern der Briefe, die Nicolaus von Autrecourt in den dreissiger Jahren des 14. Jahrhunderts schrieb und in denen er die Moglichkeit theologischen Wissens wie auch die Bedingungen evidenter Erkenntnis uberhaupt untersuchte. Unveranderter Print-on-Demand-Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1988."