A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy.

Link-Salinger, Ruth, editor-in-chief.

ISBN 10: 0813206480 / ISBN 13: 9780813206486

Published by The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 1988

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Octavo, maroon cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xvi, 310 pp., publications of Arthur Hyman, indexes Foreword by Ruth Link-Salinger. Additional editors: Jeremiah Hackett, Michael Saule Hyman, R. James Long, Charles H. Manekin. Articles are "Saadye's Goal in his Commentary on Sefer Yezira," Haggai Ben-Shammai, "The Ideal State of the Philosophers and Prophetic Laws," Lawrence V. Berman, "Richard Fishacre on the Need for 'Philosophy,'" Stephen F. Brown, "Aquina's Debt to Maimonides," David B. Burrell, "Wiling Freely According to Thomas Aquinas," Mary T. Clark, "Averrois Tractatus de Anmae Beatitudine," Herbert A. Davidson, "Philoponus on the Metaphysics of Creation," Seymour Feldman, "Matter and Form as Attributes of God in Maimonides' Philosophy," I.E. Goodman, "Averroes and Roger Bacon on the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy," Jeremiah Hacker, "Crescas versus Maimonides on Knowledge and Pleasure," Warren Zev Harvey, "Some Conceptions of the Land of Israel in Medideval Jewish Thought," Moshe Idel, "Averroes and the West: The First Encounter/Nonencounter," Alfred I. Ivry, "The Problem of Creation in Late Medeival Jewish Philosophy," Barry S. Kogan, "Richard Fishacre's Way to God," R. James Long, "Problems of 'Plenitude' in Maimonides and Gersonides," Manekin, "Ghazali and the Avicennnan Proof from Personal Identity for an Immaterial Self," Michael E. Marmura, "Maimonides and Aquinas on the Study of Metaphysics," Armand A. Maurer, "Newton and Maimonides," Richard H. Popkin, "The Bible's First Sentence in Gregory of Nyassa's View," G. Verbeke, "Thomas Aquinas on Dialectics and Rhetoric," Willaim A. Wallace, "On the Scope of Maimonides' Logic, Or, What Joseph Knew," Raymond L. Weiss, "The Guide and the Gate: The Dialectical Influence of Maimonides on Isaac ibn Latif and Early Spanish Kabbalah," Sara Helle Wilensky, "Thomas Acquinas and the Axiom 'What is Received is Received According to the Mode of the Receiver,'" John F. Wippel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Straight Path: Studies in Medieval Philosophy.
• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813206480
• ISBN 13: 9780813206486
• Binding: Hardbound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

""Collected to honor the scholarship of Arthur Hyman over the past thirty years, the twenty-three articles of this volume are original contributions by established scholars of medieval philosophy. . . This collection is a fitting tribute to the wide interest and significant contribution of Arthur Hyman. In its rich scope it is also a welcome resource for the scholar and serious student of philosophy.""

--Journal of the History of Philosophy