Readings in medieval philosophy

PART I: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

1. The Free Choice of the Will, Book II, Chapters 3-15 / St. Augustine

2. The Proof of God's Existence from The Metaphysica of Avicenna / Avicenna

3. Proslogium, Preface and Chapters I-IV; An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon and Anselm's Apologetic / St. Anselm and Gaunilon

4. The Trinity, Or The First Principle, Chapters I-III / William of Auvergne

5. Summa Theologica Part I: Question I, Articles 1 and 2; Question II, Articles 1, 2 and 3 / St. Thomas Aquinas

6. "On the Existence of God" from A Treatise on God as First Principle / John Duns Scotus

PART II: ETHICS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

7. "The Nature of Evil" from The Divine Names, Chapter Four / Pseudo-Dionysius

8. The Improvement of the Moral Qualities / Solomon Ibn Gabirol

9. Ethics, Prologue and Chapters I-XVI / Peter Abelard

10. Laws Concerning Character Traits / Moses Maimonides

11. "Disputed Questions Concerning Evil" from De Malo; Question One, Articles 1-4 and Question Three, Article 1 / St. Thomas Aquinas

12. God and Creatures; The Quodlibetal Questions; Question 18, Articles I-III / John Duns Scotus

PART III: GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE AND FREE WILL

13. The Consolation of Philosophy, Book V / Boethius

14. Foreknowledge and Free Choice, Chapters 1-4 / St. Anselm

15. "On God's Knowledge" from On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy, Averroes

16. "God's Causality and Foreknowledge"; Quodlibeta, III, Question iii and Ordinatio, D. XXXVIII, Question unica / William of Ockham

17. The Wars of the Lord, Book III, Divine Knowledge / Levi ben Gerson

18. A Quodlibetal Question on Future Contingents Disputed at Louvain in the year 1465 / Peter de Rivo

PART IV: THEOLOGY

19. On the Immortality of the Soul / St. Augustine

20. Letter to Charlemagne: On the Being (Substantia) of Nothing and Shadows / Fridugisus of Tours

21. "On the Trinity" from Periphyseon, Book II; 561C-579D / John Scotus Eriugena

22. Letter on Divine Omnipotence, Selections / St. Peter Damian

23. Grace and Free Choice / St. Anselm

24. Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity; Question II, Articles I and II / St. Bonaventure

PART V POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

25. The Perfect State, Section V; Chapter 15 / Al-Farabi

26. The Policraticus, Book Four, Prologue and Chapters I-IV / John of Salisbury

27. On Kingship to the King of Cyprus, Book One, Chapters I, II and VI, Book Two, Chapter III / St. Thomas Aquinas

28. On Royal and Papal Power, Prologue and Chapters 1-7 / John of Paris

29. The Defender of Peace, Discourse One, Chapters II and VIII-XIII / Marsilius of Padua

30. Eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, Question II, Chapters I and VII; Dialogus de Potestate Papae et Imperatoris, Part III: Treatise ii; Book II, Chapters 26-28 / William of Ockham

PART VI: KNOWLEDGE AND SENSATION

31. The Trinity, Selections on Knowledge / St. Augustine

32. Summa Theologica, Part I, Question LXXXIV, Articles 6-8; Question LXXXV, Articles 1-8: Question LXXXVI, Articles 1-4 and Question LXXXVIII, Articles 1-3 / St. Thomas Aquinas

33. Disputed Questions on Faith and Knowledge, Question I / Matthew of Aquasparta

34. Two Letters to Bernard of Arezzo / Nicolaus of Autrecourt

35. Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, Book II, Questions 9-11 / Jean Buridan

36. Prologue and Chapter One, "On the Causes of Marvels Involving Vision, from De causis mirabilium / Nicole Oresme

PART VII: UNIVERSALS

37. Glosses on Porphyry from Logica Ingredientibus, "On Universals" / Peter Abelard

38. The Metalogicon, Book II, Chapters 17-20 / John of Salisbury

39. Concerning Being and Essence, Introduction and Chapters 1-4 / St. Thomas Aquinas

40. The Principle of Individuation, Questions One-Six / John Duns Scotus

41. Summa logicae, Part I, Chapters 14-17; Quodlibet 4, Question 35 and Quodlibet 5, Questions 12 and 13 / William of Ockham

42. "On Universals" / Walter Burley

PART VIII: LOGIC AND THE PHILOSOPY OF LANGUAGE

43. On Division / Boethius

44. Introduction to Logic, Chapter Five, "Properties of Terms" / William of Sherwood

45. "Treatise on Distributions" from Summulae Logicales / Peter of Spain

46. "The Nature of Logic" and "Dialectic and Demonstration" from De ortu scientiarum / Robert Kilwardby

47. Sophismata, Chapter VIII, "Insolubles" / Jean Buridan

"On entailment propositions" from Logica Magna

PART IX: PHYSICS

49. On light / Robert Grosseteste

50. Letter to Sigerus de Foucaucourt: On the Magnet / Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt

51. Opus Majus, Part IV: Distinctions I, II and III / Roger Bacon

52. Perspectiva communis, Part II, Reflection / John Pecham

53. "The Impetus Theory of Projectile Motion" from Questions on the Eight Books of the Physics of Aristotle, Book VIII, Question 12; "On the Free Fall of Bodies" and "On the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth" from Questions on the Four Books on the Heavens and the World of Aristotle, Book II, Questions 12 and 22 / Jean Buridan

54. Concerning Experiments in Weight / Nicholas of Cusa.