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Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Edited By Sonja Schierbaum, Jörn Müller Copyright 2024
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. By crossing the conventional dividing line between the medieval and early modern periods, the volume draws important new insights on the historical development of voluntarism. Voluntarism places a special emphasis on the will when it comes to the analysis and explanation of fundamental... Read more

Introduction: Voluntarism: Central Philosophical Issues and Problems Sonja Schierbaum and Jörn Müller

Part 1: Psychological Voluntarism

1. Does Voluntarism Lead to Irrationalism? A Medieval Case Study Dominik Perler

2. Voluntarism and Aristotelian akrasia: Radicalizing Views on Incontinence around 1277 Jörn Müller

3. Henry of Ghent and John of Pouilly on “Aristotle’s Prophecy about Incontinence” Tobias Hoffmann

4. Descartes and Leibniz on the Nature of the Will Stephan Schmid

5. Faith and Will in Francisco de Vitoria Christophe Grellard

Part 2: Ethical Voluntarism

6. The Blind Will Is No King: Henry of Ghent’s Voluntarism and the Act of Choice Michael Szlachta

7. Descartes’s Conception of Freedom: Between Voluntarism and Intellectualism Ariane Cäcilie Schneck

8. Hobbes against liberum arbitrium Thomas Pink

9. Freedom of the Will and the Passions in Pufendorf’s Action Theory Heikki Haara

10. Heavenly “Freedom” in Fourteenth-Century Voluntarism Eric W. Hagedorn

Part 3: Theological Voluntarism

11. From Moral to Modal Voluntarism: Descartes on the Status of Eternal Truths Sebastian Bender

12. Grounding the Principle of Plenitude, or Why Leibniz Rehabilitated Divine Will Ursula Renz and Sarah Tropper

13. Catharine Trotter Cockburn against Theological Voluntarism Ruth Boeker

14. Crusius against the Arbitrariness of Moral Obligation: An Alternative to Theological Voluntarism? Sonja Schierbaum

Biography

Sonja Schierbaum is currently leader of the Emmy Noether research group “Practical Reasons Before Kant (1720–1780)” at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of Ockham’s Assumption of Mental Speech (2014) and has co-edited a volume on late-medieval conceptions of self-knowledge (with Dominik Perler, 2014).

Jörn Müller is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on practical philosophy, anthropology, and philosophical psychology. His publications include monographs on Aristotle’s ethics, Albert the Great and Henry of Ghent, as well as on weakness of will from Socrates to Duns Scotus.

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