The Evolution of Medieval Thought

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Part One - The Legacy of the Ancient World 1
• Chapter I - Plato and Aristotle 3
• Chapter II - The Later Platonists and Plotinus 16
• Chapter III - St Augustine 32
• Chapter IV - Boethius and Dionysius 51
• Chapter V - Education in the Ancient World 59
• Part Two - The Renaissance of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 69
• Chapter VI - The Rebirth of the Schools 71
• Chapter VII - The Awakening of Western Europe 79
• Chapter VIII - The Revival of Dialectic: Berengar, Lanfranc and Anselm 93
• Chapter IX - The Question of Universals 107
• Chapter X - Peter Abelard 116
• Chapter XI - The School of Chartres and John of Salisbury 131
• Chapter XII - The School of St Victor and St Bernard 141
• Part Three - The New Universities the Rediscovery of Aristotle 151
• Chapter Xlll - The Origins of the Universities 153
• Chapter XIV - Studies, Degrees and Text-Books 172
• Chapter XV - The Rediscovery of Aristotle 185
• Chapter XVI - Arabian and Jewish Philosophy 193
• Chapter XVII - The Problems of the Soul and the Process of Cognition 206
• Part Four - The Achievement of the Thirteenth Century 219
• Chapter XVIII - The Philosophical Revolution of the Thirteenth Century 221
• Chapter XIX - The Franciscan School at Paris 235
• Chapter XX - Albert the Great 249
• Chapter XXI - St Thomas Aquinas 255
• Chapter XXII - Siger of Brabant and the Faculty of Arts 269
• Chapter XXIII - England in the Thirteenth Century 278
• Part Five - The Breakdown of the Medieval Synthesis 289
• Chapter XXIV - The Aftermath of Aristotle 291
• Chapter XXV - Henry of Ghent and Duns Scotus 301
• Chapter XXVI - The Breakdown of the Synthesis 311
• Chapter XXVII - William of Ockham 318
• Chapter XXVIII - The Harvest of Nominalism 327
• Suggestions for Further Reading 341
• Index 345
• Index 347

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