Richard of St. Victor's theory of imagination / / Ritva Palmén.

Richard of St.Victor (d.1173) developed original ideas about the faculty of imagination in a twelfth-century Parisian context. Related to the historical study of philosophical psychology, Richard of St. Victor’s Theory of Imagination acknowledges that the faculty of imagination, being a necessary pr...

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Superior document:Investigating Medieval Philosophy, Volume 8
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Investigating medieval philosophy ; Volume 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Imagination in Classical and Medieval Thought
  • The Fundamentals of Richard’s Anthropology
  • The Role of Imagination as the Soul Prepares for Contemplation
  • Imagination in the First Two Kinds of Contemplation
  • The Third Kind of Contemplation
  • Imagination at the Uppermost Stages of Contemplation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.