“The terms for the medieval debate on predestination were set by Augustine. He had tried throughout his life to reconcile two conflicting ideas: first, that humans must have freedom of choice in order to be moral agents; second, that God… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“The earliest medieval logical curriculum, studied from the time of Alcuin’s On Dialectic (late 780s?) until the late tenth century, was based mainly on… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“Charlemagne was intimately involved in the new interest in philosophy in his court. One of the earliest, in-part philosophical texts was issued as if… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“philosophizing happened only because other activities offered the occasion or the stimulation for it. What were these activities? They appeared most prominently in the… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“Charlemagne’s grandson, Charles the Bald, went further in providing a congenial atmosphere for philosophy. The leading philosopher of this period was John Scottus Eriugena,… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“There are enough unresolved metaphysical problems in the Categories and the Isagoge (a brilliantly unsuccessful attempt to defuse these problems) to make a logic… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“Philosophizing in medieval Latin Europe began in the eighth century, in the royal court of Charlemagne, then moved in the later ninth century to… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“Paris became the center for twelfth-century philosophy because of the decision to allow any qualified master to set up a school there, on payment… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
“The terms for the medieval debate on predestination were set by Augustine. He had tried throughout his life to reconcile two conflicting ideas: first,… — John Marenbon Copy Share Image
