268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology. It argues the history of final causality is most profitably understood according to the interplay of regularity, order, and intentionality as interpretive categories. Within this analytic framework, the author explores the history and theological implications of final causality... Read more
1. The Beginnings of the End: Aristotle on Natural Final Causality 2. After Aristotle: Commentators, Critics, and Harmonizers 3. Arabic Commentators and the Bifurcation of Aristotelian Interpretation 4. Nature and the Good in Scholastic Receptions of Aristotle 5. The Order of Finality in Scholastic Thought 6. Finality and Intentionality
Biography
Corey Barnes is Robert S. Danforth Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College, USA.
