Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought

Jan A. Aertsen, Ph.D. (1982) in Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Thomas Aquinas and the doctrine of the transcendentals including Nature and Creature, Thomas Aquinas's Way of Thought (Brill, 1988) and Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals. The Case of Thomas Aquinas (Brill, 1996).

• Preface ... xixIntroduction ... 1Chapter One The Concept of transcendens in Medieval Thought: What is beyond and what is common ... 13Chapter Two Conditions, Presuppositions and Sources of a Doctrine of the Transcendentals ... 35Chapter Three The Beginning of the Doctrine of the Transcendentals (ca. 1225): Philip the Chancellor ... 109Chapter Four The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Franciscan Masters ... 135Chapter Five Albertus Magnus: Different Traditions of thought and the Transcendentals ... 177Chapter Six Thomas Aquinas: A First Model ... 209Chapter Seven Henry of Ghent: The onto-theological transformation of the doctrine ... 273Chapter Eight The German Dominican School: Dietrich of Freiberg and Meister Eckhart ... 315Chapter Nine Duns Scotus: A Turn in the Doctrine of the Transcendentals ... 371Chapter Ten Discussions on the Scotist Conception ... 433Chapter Eleven The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in NChapter Twelve Neoplatonic Critiques of Transcendental Metaphysics ... 545Chapter Thirteen The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Renaissance Philosophy ... 569Chapter Fourteen The “Metaphysical Disputations” of Francisco Suárez: Between Scholasticism and Modernity ... 587Chapter Fifteen The Doctrine of the “Supertranscendentals”: An Alternative Model? ... 635Chapter Sixteen Conclusion: The importance of the transcendental way of thought for medieval philosophy ... 657Bibliography ... 707Index Nominum ... 741Index Rerum ... 747