Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0005
M. Adams
{"title":"Outsourcing the Object: Divine Illumination I","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 5 and 6 deal with ideas about outsourcing the object, rather than the subject, of understanding or cognition. They begin in Chapter 5 with the Augustinian Platonist thought that in order to “have certain knowledge of creatable quiddities, … our minds must make contact with those objects where they exist immutably: in Divine exemplars.” Thus they deal with debates about ways in which our having concepts of created things does or does not depend on our first having concepts of which God is the object. Chapter 5 focuses on the writings of three of the most influential 13th-century theologians: Bonaventure, Matthew of Aquasparta, and Henry of Ghent.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125374004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0004
M. Adams, C. Trifogli
{"title":"Outsourcing the Subject","authors":"M. Adams, C. Trifogli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The great 12th-century Islamic philosopher Averroes (Ibn-Rushd), may be viewed as postulating an “outsourcing” of intellectual thinking from individual human beings to a single intellect that is eternally emanated from God and is the thinker of all the thoughts that humans ever think. Despite their philosophical respect for Averroes, 13th- and 14th-century European Christian philosophers generally rejected his view as incompatible with Christianity. Chapter 4 explores the different ways in which Christian philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Wylton, and William Ockham argued that the human intellect is so united to the human body as its substantial form that each one of us can think intellectual thoughts individually, for ourselves, though Wylton acknowledged that his argument relied on his faith and not on natural reason alone.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122352181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0007
M. Adams
{"title":"Scotus and His Predecessors on the Metaphysics of Habits","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In Chapters 5 and 6 “outsourcing the object” was about understanding—about the extent to which our having concepts of created things does or does not depend on our first having concepts of which God is the object. Chapters 7 and 8 also deal with views about outsourcing objects, rather than subjects—but objects of willing and action rather than of understanding and cognition. The main focus in Chapter 7 is on Duns Scotus and his conviction that human nature is the same in all its possible states—whether in Eden, in this world after the fall, or in life after death—and that only God is sufficient to make the divine essence present to a created intellect. In that way Scotus sees the possibility of that blessing as out-sourced to the free and contingent policies of God.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130608613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.001.0001
M. Adams
{"title":"Housing the Powers","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Housing the powers? What powers? Soul powers—powers that shape the lives of human souls. They may be housed, and exercised, by those souls or by other agents. This book is about views on that subject developed by Christian philosophical theologians in western Europe from the mid-12th to the early 14th century, with some borrowing of thoughts from their Islamic counterparts. Chapters 1 to 3 discuss in increasing breadth and depth those theologians’ views about their own housing and exercise of soul powers. Chapters 4 to 8 discuss their views as to the possibility of some of our soul powers being outsourced—that is, housed and exercised by God or a super-human emanation of God. Chapter 4 is about outsourcing the subject—in an Islamic form that postulated an outsourcing of intellectual thinking from individual human beings to a single intellect that is eternally emanated from God and is the thinker of all the thoughts that humans ever think. That theory attracted the interest, though not the agreement, of European Christian philosophers. They found ideas of outsourcing the object, rather than the subject, of religious thought more congenial. The remaining four chapters of the book deal with ideas about outsourcing the object, rather than the subject, of understanding or cognition. In Chapters 5 and 6 the focus is mainly on Divine gifts of knowledge and understanding, and in Chapters 7 and 8 on gifts of action and willing or desire.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121257738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0006
M. Adams
{"title":"Outsourcing the Object: Divine Illumination II","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 is a study of a disagreement between Duns Scotus and Henry of Ghent about Divine illumination. Henry did not (in this world anyway) know about the disagreement, because he died in his 70s in 1293 before Scotus was well known. Still, there was and is disagreement between the views on Divine illumination that Henry and Scotus developed and bequeathed to posterity. The differences between their most developed views are subtle. The main conclusion of the chapter is that Scotus insists that all of the conceptual content that we have before death is derivable by abstraction from phantasms, while Henry holds that God plays an efficient causal role in furnishing further contents: our “first” concepts of indeterminate being, good, true, one, beautiful; presumably our concept of subsistent being; and whatever content additions are involved in taking us beyond constructed concepts to clear and perfect concepts of creatable quiddities.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"421 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116047946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0001
M. Adams
{"title":"Medieval Architecture of Matter, Form, and Powers","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Medieval Aristotelianism placed the fundamental powers of created things in the context of a metaphysics of substance that was also metaphysics of matter and form. Chapter 1 explores that context, largely with reference to works of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Following Aristotle, Aquinas tries to preserve the fundamentality of primary substance by insisting that it is naturally prior to its parts or constitutive principles of prime matter and substantial form. Scotus and Ockham disagree with Aquinas about the implications of Aristotelianism. They argue that because prime matter can exist without any of the substantial forms that inhere in it, prime matter and substantial form must be really distinct things, and that because the newly dead body is materially the same as the living body, the forms that structure the prime matter into a body must be distinct from the soul form.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131067708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0008
M. Adams
{"title":"Genuine Agency, Somehow Shared?","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"As in Chapter 7, the objects outsourced in this chapter are objects of willing and action or desire rather than of understanding and cognition. This chapter focuses, not as Chapter 7 did on a single philosophical theologian, but on seven of the leaders from beginning to end of the most celebrated period of medieval Latin theology, from the mid-12th century to the early 14th century: Peter Lombard, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, Godfrey of Fontaines, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. The objects of willing and action most discussed were those believed to be involved in a loving and virtuous eternal life with God after death, and those involved in attaining those blessings.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"39 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123284576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing the PowersPub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0003
M. Adams
{"title":"Debates about Potentialities and their Relations to Being","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192862549.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Thomas Aquinas’ account of soul-powers rests on his general metaphysics of act and potency; Giles of Rome is primarily driven by a cosmic-recapitulation hypothesis about the metaphysical structure of substances. Henry of Ghent argues that Thomas and Giles were mistaken in holding that souls are really distinct from their powers. All three put their arguments in an Aristotelian philosophical context. Duns Scotus’ main disagreement with them is theological: that “In what is divine, the persona has in itself all perfections, because of the unlimitedness of its essence; but it is not the same in a created image, or in its soul, because its soul is not unlimited.” Though largely in agreement with Scotus, William Ockham argues that principles of creatures’ sensory functions need to be housed in something separate from those of their understanding and willing.","PeriodicalId":218569,"journal":{"name":"Housing the Powers","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126871104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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