- Paperback: 315 pages
- Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc; Revised edition (March 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872200787
- ISBN-13: 978-0872200784
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing changes in the Latin text and alterations found in the English translation that have been made necessary by the critical edition of Ockham's work published after Boehner prepared the original text. The updated bibliography includes the most important scholarship produced since publication of the original edition.
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A decent collection of Ockham's writings,
This review is from: Philosophical Writings: A Selection (Paperback)
This is a good sampling of important exerpts from Ockham's writings dealing primarily with metaphysics and ethics. It is useful in a course on medieval philosophy or on Ockham in particular.Ockham is an important philosopher who's nominalism can be reasonable viewed as the beginning of british empiricism. It is the shift from the metaphysical realism of the ancient and medieval worlds to the nominalism and mechanistic understanding of human beings that is essential for understanding the difference between early and modern world views. Ockham's volunterism in ethics is also the foundation of the Protestant reformation (at least Luther's reformation) and also for the moral relativism of modern ethics, especially Hume. Needless to say, I am in sharp disagreement with Ockham and find that his approach is fundamentally wrong and his criticisms of Scotus' realism rather weak. A good read on the influence of Ockham's nominalism in breaking down society is Louis Dupre's "Passage to Modernity." Check it out.
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Good Starter Text for Reading Ockham,
By T. B. Vick "T.B.V." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Philosophical Writings: A Selection (Paperback)
This volume contains a nice amount of material for anyone interested in trying to read and understand Ockham's thought. The introduction is a nice treatise explaining the contents and providing the reader (especially the beginning reader) with a good explanation of Ockham's work. The book itself contains these particular philosophical works: 1) The notion of knowledge or science, 2) epistemological problems, 3) logical problems, 4) the theory of '[supposition,' 5) truth, 6) inferential operations, 7) being, essence, and existence, 8) the possibility of a natural theology, 9) the proof of God's existence 10) God's causality and foreknowledge, and 11) physics and ethics. So as you can see there is enough that is provided in this one volume to give any reader a better grasp on some of the things Ockham taught and espoused. If you are interested in Ockham's logical treatises (which is one of the things he is best known for) then I recommend Alfred J. Fredosso's translation of "Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae" which is also available here at Amazon.
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Hurah for Latin,
By Anax Andron - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Philosophical Writings: A Selection (Paperback)
So, This text is great. I don't much care for medieval philosophy. It lacks the clarity that contemporary philosophy exhibits, sometimes. Anyways, Medieval Philosophy is always difficult for the english speaking student because it's all originally in Latin. However, this book satisfies the serious student by printing the Latin on the facing page. It is amazing. On several occasions as I was working through one of the sections, I had trouble understanding the arguments due to repitition of words or the use of different words in the English. With the Latin on the facing page, I was able to clear up issues that stem from the vagueness of translations. It was easier to see the string of Ockham's argument when viewing it in his orginal language. The preceeding reviewer expresses some of the books other merits. I just felt that you should all be made aware of the fantastic fact that this book has the original Latin.
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