Richard FitzRalph on the Will and Instantaneous Volition

A Critical Edition of Book I, Question 10 from Richard FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias

Monika Michałowska, Michael W. Dunne (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52803-1 (ISBN)

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The first book to contain a critically edited text by FitzRalph dealing with debates on the will in his Oxford lectures. Besides showcasing the contribution FitzRalph’s Oxford lectures made to medieval debates on the will, the book maps his place in the 14th-century philosophical and theological landscape.

The volume offers a critical edition of a text by Richard FitzRalph, one of the most original 14th-century Oxonian thinkers. FitzRalph’s philosophical and theological ideas were enthusiastically adopted or fiercely challenged, consolidating his recognition at the universities of Oxford, Paris, and Italy.

For all this, his work remains relatively little-known today, an obscurity this book redresses by making a question on the will from FitzRalph’s Lectura in Sententias available to a larger readership. Besides, FitzRalph’s strongly voluntaristic position and analytical techniques derived from the natural sciences and logic are shown to place him close to the Oxford Calculators.

Monika Michałowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023). Michael W. Dunne, Ph.D. (1993), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Maynooth University. His research focuses on Irish thinkers of the Middle Ages and Oxford thought in the 13th and 14th centuries. He has co-edited A Companion to Richard FitzRalph (Brill, 2023).

Preface

Introduction

Life and Career

The Structure and Sources of Book I, Question 10

The Structure of BookI, Question 10

The Sources of BookI, Question 10

The Content of BookI, Question 10

A Physics-Oriented Approach to the Will

Willing Freely Not to Exist and Nilling the Ultimate Good

FitzRalph’s Influence on the Late Medieval Debate on the Will

Adam Wodeham as a Vigilant Witness of FitzRalph’s Teaching on Loving and Cognizing

Robert Holcot’s Close Reading of FitzRalph’s Arguments on Instantaneus Volition

Gregory of Rimini as a Disseminator of FitzRalph’s Thought among Continental Thinkers

Peter Ceffons on FitzRalph’s Arguments on Willing in an Instant

The Manuscripts of Book I, Question 10

The Description of the Manuscripts

The Manuscript Tradition

Editorial Principles

Abbreviations

Sigla

Bibliographical References

Bibliography

Ricardus FitzRalph, Lectura in Sententias, LiberI, Quaestio 10: Utrum omnis amor procedat ab aliqua notitia

Argumenta principalia quaestionis

Articulus 1: Utrum voluntas sit activa respectu suae actionis vel passiva

Articulus 2: Utrum actus voluntatis fiat subito vel in tempore

Articulus 3: Utrum ex actuali notitia delectabilis obiecti sequatur necessario amor sive volitio eiusdem

Ad quaestionem

Appendix

Articulus 2: Utrum actus voluntatis fiat subito vel in tempore Responsiones ad argumenta quod actus voluntatis fiat in tempore

Index locorum

Index nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 137
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	587 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	90-04-52803-2 / 9004528032
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52803-1 / 9789004528031
Zustand	Neuware