Species intelligibilis. : from perception to knowledge / / Volume 2, : Renaissance controversis, later scholasticism, and the elimination of the intelligible species in modern philosophy : / by Leen Spruit.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 49
• VerfasserIn: Spruit, Leen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, 1995.; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (605 pages).

Medieval discussions of mental representation were constrained in essential ways by Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of intelligible species. Aquinas' view of a formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge was not universally accepted. In particular, after his death, a long series of controversies developed about the necessity of intelligible species. (These were analyzed in the first volume of this study.) The first part of this book deals with Renaissance controversies, discussing Peripatetics, Neoplatonics, and a group of relatively independent authors. In the second part, developments of late Scholasticism, and the elimination of the intelligible species in modern non-Aristotelian philosophy are scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the possible roots of the seventeenth-century theories of ideas in traditional philosophy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER SIX: FROM FLORENCE TO PADUA -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DISPUTES -- CHAPTER EIGHT: FROM SIMPLICIAN AVERROISM TO THE NEW PHILOSOPHY -- CHAPTER NINE: THE LEGACY OF RENAISSANCE ARISTOTELIANISM -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER TEN: RISE AND HEYDAY OF LATER SCHOLASTIC PSYCHOLOGY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: MODERN PHILOSOPHY: FROM SPECIES TO IDEA -- CHAPTER TWELVE: INNOVATION AND ISOLATION -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: LATER CONTROVERSIES ON IDEAS -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX PERSONARUM.