Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the Quattrocento

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26627-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 230, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

An unfamiliar portrait of Renaissance Florence is depicted in this volume where we find not only some celebrated humanist-oriented thinkers but also their scholastic friends and rivals, discussing matters pertaining to moral psychology. The rationale here is to illuminate the shadowlands of Renaissance philosophy and the intellectual history of late 15th-century Italy by bringing into focus the important role played by scholastic thinkers in the Italian Renaissance. Questions and problems regarding e.g. the intellect and the will, evil and conscience, cognition and love are treated through detailed accounts of debates and texts which were rarely discussed previously.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edelheit, Amos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Scholasticism in a Florentine Setting?

PART ONE: ON CONSCIENCE, EVIL AND PENITENCE

1. A Portrait of a ‘Thomist’ in the Late-Fifteenth Century
1. Some Reflections on Standard Classifications Used By Intellectual Historians with Regard to the ‘Florentine Renaissance’
2. Nicolaus de Mirabilibus: Life and Works
3. Nicolaus de Mirabilibus on Conscience
4. Nicolaus de Mirabilibus on Predestination
5. Conclusion

2. A Renaissance Discourse on Evil
1. ‘The Problem of Evil’
2. A Discourse on Evil
3. Some Conclusions

3. The Psychology of the Voluntary Act of Penitence
1. Giovanni Caroli and the Penitential Psalms
2. Caroli’s Exposition of Psalm 6
3. Pico della Mirandola’s Exposition of Psalm 6
4. Conclusion

PART TWO: QUESTIONS OF INTELLECT AND WILL, FREEDOM AND LOVE

4. A Discussion of Conscience, Cognition and Will
1. Antoninus and Modern Scholarship
2. Antoninus’ Theology as Theology for non-Theologians
3. Moral Psychology in Antoninus’ Summa
4. Conclusion

5. A Debate Concerning the Intellect and the Will
1. Questions of Historiography and Method
2. The Will and the Intellect in Medieval Perspective
3. The Debate of 1474
4. Ficino’s Arguments
5. Bandello’s Arguments
6. Some Conclusions

6. A Theory of Will, Human Dignity and Freedom
1. Humanists and Scholastics. Salviati and His Dialogue
2. Salviati’s Theory of the Will
3. Conclusion

7. On the Importance of Self-Reflexivity
1. Donati and his Text
2. Arguments for the Superiority of the Intellect
3. Arguments for the Superiority of the Will
4. Donati’s Concluding Remarks

8. A Renaissance Discourse on Love
1. ‘Scholasticism’ and ‘Humanism’: Terms in Transition
2. The Concept of Love
3. Lorenzo Pisano’s Life and Formation
4. Lorenzo Pisano on Love
5. Conclusion

Conclusion: A New Renaissance Anthropology?
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amos Edelheit, Ph.D. (2007), is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Maynooth University. His main publications include Ficino, Pico and Savonarola: The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2-1498 (2008); Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the ‘Quattrocento’ (2014); and Humanism, Theology, and Spiritual Crisis in Renaissance Florence: Giovanni Caroli’s ‘Liber dierum lucensium’: A Critical Edition, English Translation, Commentary, and Introduction (2018).