Primary and Secondary Causality in Medieval Philosophy (eBook)

List of Contributors

Introduction Dragos Calma, Tobias Hoffmann, and Giuseppe Thomas Vitale

1. Primary and Secondary Causality: Aristotle and Proclus Behind Thomas Aquinas on the Liber de Causis, Proposition 1 Jonathan Greig

2. Primary and Secondary Causality in the Creation of Matter: Three Different Models from the Mid-Thireenth-Century Commentary Tradition on the Physics Silvia Donati

3. The Status of Secondary Causes in Bonaventure's and Thomas Aquinas's Commentaries on the Sentences Isabelle Moulin

4. Aquinas on Instruments of Creation Charles Ehret

5. Secondary Causality in Roger Bacon's Theory of Multiplication of Species Odile Gilon

6. Primary and Secondary Causation and the Act of Sin: Does Privation Theory Save God from Causing Evil? Gloria Frost

7. Aufredo Gonteri Brito on Divine Concurrence with Sinful Volitions Zita V. Toth

8. Aufredo Gonteri Brito: An Unedited Text on Divine Concurrence with Sinful Volitions Zita V. Tóth

9. The Medieval Debate on the Executive Potency Wouter Goris

10. Alexander of Alexandria and Martin of Alnwick: Four Unedited Texts on the Executive Potency Wouter Goris

11. Instrumental, Direct, or Superfluous? Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Theories of the Celestial Causality in the Generation of Living Beings Maria Sorokina.

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