Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99453-2_14" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99453-2_14</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99453-2_14" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-99453-2_14</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper delves into manuscript sources connected with various disputations held at Prague University from around 1390 to 1420 and singles out a set of hitherto unknown quaestiones dealing with the nature of the human intellect and its relation to the body. Prague disputations from around 1400 arguably offer a unique vantage point on late medieval anthropological issues, since they encompass an entanglement of numerous doctrinal influences from Buridanian De anima commentaries to John Wyclif’s theories. The paper delineates several conceptual tensions regarding the nature of the intellect, e.g., between materialism (entailed by the emphasis on the intellect’s inherence in the body) and personal immortality. It presents several strategies Prague masters employed to overcome these tensions. For example, an anonymous participant of the 1409 quodlibet develops the Buridanian distinction between the rationally demonstrable materialist tendency and the indemonstrable “catholic truth” about the intellect both inhering in and separable from the body. On the other hand, Wyclif’s adherents (Jacob of Mies and another anonymous master) postulate an immortal spirit hypostatically united to each human being beside the human soul educed from the potency of the matter. Yet, the boundaries between the doctrinal standpoints in question seem permeable, whereby a rigid definition of antagonistic groups in late medieval Prague intellectual milieu (e.g., Buridanians vs Wycliffites) is rendered ineffective.n

Název v anglickém jazyce

Buridan Wycliffised? The Nature of the Intellect in Late Medieval Prague University Disputations

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper delves into manuscript sources connected with various disputations held at Prague University from around 1390 to 1420 and singles out a set of hitherto unknown quaestiones dealing with the nature of the human intellect and its relation to the body. Prague disputations from around 1400 arguably offer a unique vantage point on late medieval anthropological issues, since they encompass an entanglement of numerous doctrinal influences from Buridanian De anima commentaries to John Wyclif’s theories. The paper delineates several conceptual tensions regarding the nature of the intellect, e.g., between materialism (entailed by the emphasis on the intellect’s inherence in the body) and personal immortality. It presents several strategies Prague masters employed to overcome these tensions. For example, an anonymous participant of the 1409 quodlibet develops the Buridanian distinction between the rationally demonstrable materialist tendency and the indemonstrable “catholic truth” about the intellect both inhering in and separable from the body. On the other hand, Wyclif’s adherents (Jacob of Mies and another anonymous master) postulate an immortal spirit hypostatically united to each human being beside the human soul educed from the potency of the matter. Yet, the boundaries between the doctrinal standpoints in question seem permeable, whereby a rigid definition of antagonistic groups in late medieval Prague intellectual milieu (e.g., Buridanians vs Wycliffites) is rendered ineffective.n

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-16793S" target="_blank" >GA19-16793S: Filosofie na pražské univerzitě okolo roku 1409: Kvodlibet Matěje Knína jako křižovatka evropského středověkého vědění</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420

ISBN

978-3-030-99452-5

Počet stran výsledku

34

Strana od-do

277-310

Počet stran knihy

320

Název nakladatele

Springer

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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