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Author:   Mikko Posti
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   128
Weight:   0.578kg
ISBN:  

9789004427877

ISBN 10:   9004427872
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   14 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Historical Background 1 Introduction 2 Plato and Aristotle on Providence 3 Aristotle on Causality and Chance 4 The Epicureans and the Stoic Theory of Fate and Providence 5 The Middle Platonists, Conditional Fate 6 The Peripatetic Tradition and Aristotle's Theory of Providence 7 The Neoplatonists: All-Embracing Divine Providence 8 Augustine and the Christian Formulation of Divine Providence 9 Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy 10 Boethius on Causality 11 John of Damascus 2 Divine Providence from Alexander of Hales to Thomas Aquinas 1 Accidental Causality, Free Choice and Evil 2 Avicenna and Averroes on Providence and Causality 3 Alexander of Hales and the Summa Halensis 4 Albert the Great 5 Thomas Aquinas 6 Siger of Brabant 3 Divine Providence from 1277 to Thomas Bradwardine 1 Introduction 2 The 1277 Condemnations 3 Giles of Rome 4 Matthew of Aquasparta 5 Richard of Middleton, John of Paris & Durand of St. Pourcain 6 Peter Auriol 7 Robert Holkot 8 Thomas Bradwardine 4 Liber de Bona Fortuna: New Perspectives on Providence 1 Introduction 2 Liber de bona fortuna: Aristotle's Later Theory of Good Fortune? 3 Thomas Aquinas on LDBF 4 Giles of Rome 5 Henry of Ghent 6 Richard of Middleton 7 John Duns Scotus 8 The Anonymous Commentator of LDBF 9 Peter Auriol on LDBF Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Mikko Posti, Ph.D. (2018), University of Helsinki, is a postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of theology at the University of Helsinki. Posti's previous publications have focused on the doctrines of Trinity and divine providence in medieval scholastic thought.

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