Recherches de Th�ologie et Philosophie M�di�vales

Spectacula contemplationis (1244-46)

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:49:12 GMT

This article presents for the first time a critical edition of a minor treatise named Spectacula contemplationis or The Spectacles of Contemplation by Thomas Gallus. The treatise�s aim is to describe the various levels of knowledge that are traversed by the soul in its ascent to God. By the author�s own admission, the treatise is inspired by the six types of contemplation listed by Richard of St Victor in his work on contemplation, Beniamin maior. Gallus�s treatment however is not just a repetition of the material covered by his fellow Victorine. Though short in length, the treatise reveals some original developments and major points of divergence from Richard�s intellectual approach, which reflect the affective Dionysianism of the Abbot of Vercelli. It also calls to mind features of Hugh of St Victor�s De tribus diebus and Bonaventure�s Itinerarium mentis in Deum, as well as revealing the previously neglected fact that Gallus may have been the author of, or at least wrote a commentary on, a sequence entitled Super mentem exultemus.

Multiplicitas und distinctio als characteristisches Thema der logica moderna innerhalb der ars disputationis

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:01 GMT

Ambiguity and its distinctio or divisio is part of a theory of significatio that deals with sense and reference. Like deductio, or more generally disputatio, it is a core issue in the logica moderna. This distinctio essentially amounts to analysis or, more specifically, disambiguation of language, signification and arguments, in order to secure smooth disputation. This distinctio is found at the root of many developments and key issues in the logica moderna. It opens the way for the theoretical dependency of significatio, lexical meaning and referential relations, and hence of truth and validity, on propositional co-text as well as on situational and pragmatic context. Additionally, the project of disambiguation motivates not just clarification of logical and grammatical syntax, but also identifying differences between them. With that, important steps are taken towards identifying the logical form of assertions, i.e., sub-sentential structure relevant for inferential potential and truth. Accordingly, divisio and distinctio are assigned tasks that are today performed by logical formalisation: providing transparent logical form to linguistic expressions by means of truth-conditional analysis. We thus have reason to see disambiguation and reflection on ambiguity, rather than the contextual approach, as the driving force behind the most important developments within the logica moderna, including the contextual approach itself.

What Do I See When I See This Lion?

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:59:03 GMT

When William of Ockham�s use of the term �concept� is examined, it becomes clear that intuitive cognitions, in and of themselves, cannot function as concepts and thus cannot supposit (i.e., cannot serve as subject and predicate terms), in mental propositions. This is because intuitive cognitions pertain only to the singulars in the world that cause them, whereas concepts are universals, natural signs that are, at least in principle, common to many. Since scientific knowledge is of the universal, the subject and predicate terms of mental propositions must be universal terms and thus, concepts. Nonetheless, intuitive cognitions provide the ground for scientific knowledge, as the basis for abstractive and mixed abstractive/intuitive concepts.

Philosophy in the Early Latin Middle Ages (c. 700 - c. 1100)

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:01:08 GMT

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Bulletin de th�ologie et de plilosophie m�di�vales

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:02:10 GMT

Le Bulletin pr�sente quelques livres r�cents dans le domaine de la th�ologie et de la philosophie au Moyen �ge, qui ont attir� l�attention des membres de la r�daction. Les notices sont �crites dans la langue pr�f�r�e par le recenseur et suivies de son nom.

Table des noms propres

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:02:50 GMT

Index of names

Table des manuscrits

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:03:16 GMT

Index of manuscripts

Livres re�us

poj@peeters-leuven.be — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:03:36 GMT

Books received