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1Three Notions of Analysis (Resolutio) and the Structure of Reasoning in AquinasThe Thomist 58 (2): 197-243. 1994.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:THREE NOTIONS OF RESOLUTIO AND THE STRUCTURE OF REASONING IN AQUINAS 1 EILEEN c. SWEENEY Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts RESOLUTIO, better known by the English transliteration of its Greek counterpart, "analysis," has been touted as " the conceptual model for some of the most important ideas in the history of philosophy, including the history of the methodology and philosophy of science." 2 But while resolution /analysis …Read more
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13Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard and Alan of LillePalgrave/MacMillan. 2006.This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
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28Review of Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a 75-89 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (4). 2003.
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3Aquinas on Vice and SinIn Stephen J. Pope (ed.), The Ethics of Aquinas, Georgetown University Press. 2002.
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116From Determined Motion to Undetermined Will and Nature to Supernature in AquinasPhilosophical Topics 20 (2): 189-214. 1992.
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25Abelard and the JewsIn Babette S. Hellemans & E. J. Brill (eds.), Rethinking Abelard: A Collection of Critical Essays, Brill Academic. pp. 37-50. 2014.
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Thomas Aquinas and the Difficulties of Reading the Natural Law Written on Our HeartsIn Jonathan A. Jacobs (ed.), Reason, Religion, and Natural Law: From Plato to Spinoza, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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McGrade, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2003, in Philosophical Books, 46 (Apr 2005): 141-2. (review)Philosophical Books 46 (2): 141-142. 2005.
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37Seeing DoubleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (3): 389-420. 2009.This essay focuses on three interpretations of Aquinas influenced by Continental philosophy, those of John Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Milbank/Catherine Pickstock. The essay considers the well-worn question, whether Aquinas is an onto-theologian in Heidegger’s sense, but looks more broadly at the point of contact common to these interpretations: Aquinas’s relationship to modernity.As Continental thought has put into question the nature of philosophy through a critical look at modern philos…Read more
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Anselm und der Dialog. Distanz und VersoehnungIn Gunter Narr Verlag (ed.), Gespraeche lesen. Philosophische Dialoge im Mittelalter, . pp. 101-124. 1999.
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43Anselm on Human Finitude: A Dialogue with ExistentialismSaint Anselm Journal 10 (1). 2014.The paper discusses Anselm's account of human finitude and freedom through his discussion of what it means to receive what we have from God in De casu diaboli. The essay argues that Anselm is considering the same issue as Jean Paul Sartre in his account of receiving a gift as incompatible with freedom. De casu diaboli takes up this same question, asking about how the finite will can be free, which requires that it have something per se, when there is nothing, as St. Paul asserted in Romans, that…Read more
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The Problem of Philosophy and Theology in Anselm of CanterburyIn Kent Emery & Russell Freidman (eds.), Medieval Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages. A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters. pp. 487-514. 2011.
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18Relihan, Joel C. The Prisoner’s Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius’s Consolation, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, in Religious Studies Review 36 (3) (2010): 234.Religious Studies Review 36 (3): 234. 2010.
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1Metaphysics and its Distinction from Sacred Doctrine in AquinasIn Reijo Työrinoja, Anja Inkeri Lehtinen & Dagfinn Føllesdal (eds.), Knowledge and Medieval Philosophy, Annals of the Finnish Society For Missiology and Ecumenics. pp. 162-170. 1990.
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23Rewriting the Narrative of Scripture: 12th-Century Debates over Reason and Theological FormJournal of Nietzsche Studies 3 1-34. 1993.While the history of Western philosophy as a whole can be seen as the appropriation by philosophers of the discourse of truth from the poets and makers of myth, of the replacement of the narrative form by the 'properly philosophical' form of argument, it is an appropriation that also takes place within medieval thought, particularly in the construction of theology as a legitimate academic discipline. Whether that appropriation constitutes progress or loss was as much debated in the Middle Ages a…Read more
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21Abelard’s Progress: From Logic to Ethics. Review of John Marenbon, The Philosophy of Peter Abelard (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (3): 367-376. 2000.
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47Aquinas & Sartre: On freedom, personal identity, and the possibility of happiness (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1): 130-131. 2011.This well-written volume consists of paired chapters on human being, understanding, freedom, and happiness on Aquinas and Sartre. Stephen Wang's project is to use Sartre to reveal the more "radical" aspects of Aquinas's thought and to use Aquinas to "unlock the meaning" of Sartre's more radical claims . There is a great deal that is fresh and illuminating in this rapprochement between two thinkers most would not join together. Because the aim is to bring the thinkers into conversation, Wang avoi…Read more
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Anselm in Dialogue with the OtherPlurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress, Palermo, 16 – 22 September 2007 (1): 159-168. 2012.
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4The Anticlaudianus and the 'Proper' Language of TheologyEssays in Medieval Studies 4 45-55. 1987.
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New Standards for Certainty: The Reception of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics in the late 12th and early 13th centuriesIn Dallas G. Denery Ii, Kantik Ghosh & Nicolette Zeeman (eds.), Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages, Brepols Publishers. pp. 37-62. 2014.
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12Seeing DoubleAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (3): 389-420. 2009.This essay focuses on three interpretations of Aquinas influenced by Continental philosophy, those of John Caputo, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Milbank/Catherine Pickstock. The essay considers the well-worn question, whether Aquinas is an onto-theologian in Heidegger’s sense, but looks more broadly at the point of contact common to these interpretations: Aquinas’s relationship to modernity.As Continental thought has put into question the nature of philosophy through a critical look at modern philos…Read more
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48Hugh of St. Victor: The Augustinian Tradition of Sacred and Secular Reading RevisedIn Edward D. English (ed.), Reading and Wisdom: The De Doctrina Christiana of Augustine in the Middle Ages, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 61-83. 1995.
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60Reasoning about Nature in Virtue, Action and Law: The Path from Principles to PracticeDiametros 38 175-190. 2013.This paper argues that the role of nature in Aquinas’s account of virtue, action and law does not require the kind of adherence to Aristotle’s ‘metaphysical biology’ that is refuted by Darwin because of the way Aquinas transforms nature as applied to a rational being and as an analogy to elucidate virtue, habit and law. Aquinas’s grounding of ethics and law in the notion of nature is also not a kind of intuitionism designed to answer all moral questions and stop all ethical debates but a model w…Read more
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Alan of LilleIn Willemien Otten (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, Oxford University Press. pp. 12-14. 2013.
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