Quaestiones disputatae de verbo

Présentation

This book contains questions by Richard Knapwell that have never been published before. Knapwell is one of the most significant representatives of the first Thomistic school at Oxford.
The questions presented in this volume are drawn from two manuscripts : Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale, 158 and Cambridge, Peterhouse 128. The first deals with the real difference between an act of the understanding and a word arising from the intellect. The second deals with the manner in which words are formed in an act of knowing. The next three questions discuss the beatific vision enjoyed by the saved in Paradise. The last question addresses the unity of the person in the context of the incarnation of theWord of God. All of these questions testify to the lively presence of the Dominicans at Oxford; they also allow us to follow the development of the debate in which was born what we now call the first Thomistic school at Oxford. They are a modest addition to our as-yet-incomplete knowledge of the tumultuous history of this school. They are also a record of how Dominican friars created a new way of thinking in the course of their disputes by drawing upon the innovative ideas bequeathed to them by Thomas Aquinas while preserving their own individual voices.

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Edited by Zbigniew Pajda.