The Will Discourse in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology (eBook)

Introduction Michael W. Dunne and Monika Michalowska 1. Individual and Common Intentions: The Role of the Will in the Institution of Human Language and Sacramental Signs in the Late Middle Ages Claudia Appolloni 2. Marguerite Porete on the Will 3. The Effort of the Will in Richard Middleton's Sentences Commentary Michael Szlachta 4. Instants of Nature and Formalities: The Structure of the Will according to Francis Meyronnes Sylvain Roudaut 5. The Power to Do Otherwise in Fourteenth-Century Philosophy: A First Approximation Martin Pickavé 6. Do I Really Want It? Walter Burley on Choosing Virtue and Vice in his Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics Marek Gensler 7. Richard FitzRalph on Whether Cognition Necessitates Volition: Finding a Middle Way Michael W. Dunne 8. Adam Wodeham on the Joy of Knowledge and of Being in Different Mental States Lydia Deni Gamboa 9. Richard Kilvington on Ethical and Theological Objects and Changes: When Ethics Meets Physics and Geometry Monika Michalowska 10. The Physical Modelling of the Will in Robert Halifax's Questions on the Sentences, Question 6 Edit Anna Lukács 11. To Will or Not to Will, Is That the Question? John Buridan's Theory of the Will, Its Being, and Its Acts Valeria Buffon 12. Power, Transcendence, and the Trinity: The Formal Distinction between the Will and the Intellect in John Ripa Andrea Nannini 13. In Perfect Conformity to God's Will Lies Our Freedom: Teresa of Ávila Katerina Kutarnová