Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought
Subtitle: studies in honour of Carlos Steel
By: edited by Pieter d'Hoine and Gerd Van Riel
Contributors: Steel, Carlos G., honouree
Series: Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 -- XLIX; Ancient and medieval philosophy -- 49.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 785
ISBN-13: 9789058679703
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Medieval Philosophy; Congresses; Ancient Philosophy; Fate and fatalism; Providence and government of God; Free will and determinism
Other titles: Studies in honour of Carlos Steel
Description: "This book forms a major contribution to the discussion on fate, providence and moral responsibility in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Early Modern times. Through 37 original papers, renowned scholars from many different countries, as well as a number of young and promising researchers, write the history of the philosophical problems of freedom and determinism since its origins in pre-socratic philosophy up to the seventeenth century. The main focus points are classic Antiquity (Plato and Aristotle), the Neoplatonic synthesis of late Antiquity (Plotinus, Proclus, Simplicius), and thirteenth-century scholasticism (Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent). They do not only represent key moments in the intellectual history of the West, but are also the central figures and periods to which Carlos Steel, the dedicatary of this volume, has devoted his philosophical career."--
Notes: "Many of the contributions collected here were presented at a conference held at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, Belgium on 25-27 November, 2010 ..."--Page xiv.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-769) and indexes.

28 English, 9 French contributions.
Table of contents: title: Fate, providence and moral responsibility : an introduction / Gerd Van Riel & Pieter d'Hoine; title: Part 1. Plato and Aristotle; title: Émergence de la thématique de la providence divine de Diogène d'Apollonie à Platon / Lambros Couloubaritsis; title: Comment être responsable de son destin? : Platon et le mythe d'Er / Pierre Destrée; title: Liberté et caractère dans le mythe d'Er / Sylvain Delcomminette; title: The fate of providence and Plato's world soul in Aristotle / John Dudley; title: Was Aristotle an ethical determinist? : reflections on his theory of action and voluntariness / Jörn Müller; title: Part 2. Hellenistic and early imperial philosophy; title: Presuppositions of moral action in Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias / Frans A.J. de Haas; title: Plutarch and the Stoic theory of providence / Keimpe Algra; title: The middle Platonic doctrine of conditional fate / Jan Opsomer; title: Part 3. Plotinus; title: The question of evil in the world in Plotinus / Luc Brisson; title: Plotinus' metaphorical reading of the Timaeus : soul, methematics, providence / Riccardo Chiaradonna; title: Choice, self-determination and assimilation to God in Plotinus / Alessandro Linguiti; title: Part 4. The Neoplatonic commentators; title: Signs and tokens : do the gods of Neoplatonism really care? / John Dillon; title: A problem concerning providence : Proclus and Plutarch on inherited guilt and postponed punishment / Robbert M. van den Berg; title: Ascent of the soul and grades of freedom : Neoplatonic theurgy between ritual and philosophy / Christoph Helmig & Antonio L.C. Vargas; title: A fatal or providential affair? : Socrates and Alcibiades in Proclus' commentary on the Alcibiades I / Danielle A. Layne; title: Le cycle triadique de la causalité démiurgique : bonté, vouloir, providence : l'interprétation proclienne de Timée 29e1-30c2 / Alain Lernould; title: Hermias of Alexandria on Socrates' divine sign / Geert Roskam; title: When should a philosopher consult divination? : Epictetus amd Simplicius on fate and what is up to us / Gary Gabor.; title: Part 5. Greek Patristics and the Byzantine tradition; title: Goodness, evil and the free will of man in Gregory of Nyssa / Claudio Moreschini; title: Édition d'un fragment Contre les astronomes, contenant une contribution à la théorie des quatre humeurs et des tempéraments / Caroline Macé; title: A late antique debate on matter-evil revisited in 11th-century Byzantium : John Italos and his Quaestio 92 / Michele Trizio; title: The Metochion, Holy Sepulchre 363 manuscript and an unpublished Byzantine opuscule on predetermination / Peter Van Deun & Erika Gielen; title: Part 6. The Arabic tradition; title: La Providence selon le "Livre de la réprimande de l'âme" attribué à Hermès Trismégiste : un document néoplatonicien arabe oublié / Daniel De Smet; title: What about providence in the best of all possible worlds? : Avicenna and Leibniz / Jules Janssens; title: Providence in Averroes / Richard Taylor; title: Part 7. The medieval Latin tradition; title: Are first movements venial sins? : Augustinian doctrine and Aquinas's reinterpretation / Tianyue Wu; title: La doctrine aristotélicienne de la providence divine selon Thomas d'Aquin / Valérie Cordonier; title: Divine government and human freedom / Andreas Speer; title: Thoms Aquinas on providence, contingency and the usefulness of prayer / Rudi te Velde; title: Divine predestination, human merit and moral responsibility : the reception of Augustine's doctrine of irresistible grace in Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus / Pasquale Porro; title: Henry of Ghent and the ethics of intention / Marialucrezia Leone; title: Henry of Ghent on fatalism and naturalism / Gordon Wilson; title: Voir la providence : autour du De visione Dei de Nicolas de Cues / Jean-Michel Counet; title: Fate, providence and predestination in the sapiential project of Denys the Carthusian / Kent Emery, Jr.; title: Part 8. Early modern thought; title: Human nature and moral responsibility in the work of Juan Luis Vives / Demmy Verbeke; title: L'anti-fatalisme de Julius Sirenius / Guy Guldentops; title: Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) on predestination, providence and free will / Filips Defoort.