Questiones libri Porphirii / Thomas Manlevelt ; a critical edition with introduction and indices by Alfred van der Helm.

The 'Questiones libri Porphirii' is a commentary on Porphyry's 'Isagoge' by the fourteenth-century logician Thomas Manlevelt. It is edited here in full. Not much is known of Thomas Manlevelt, but his work is remarkable enough. Following in the footsteps of William of Ockham,...

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Main Author: Manlevelt, Thomas, active 14th century (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Series:Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 113.
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Table of Contents:
  • About this text
  • Thomas Manlevelt : on first acquaintance
  • Denial of substance
  • Primacy of individuality
  • Thomas Manlevelt, life and works
  • Bibliography
  • Biography
  • Biographical framework
  • Career in Paris
  • Bibliographical data from works and manuscripts
  • Anglicus?
  • The spelling of the name 'Manlevelt'
  • Thomas's english background and the dating of his works
  • Thomas Manlevelt and Albert of Saxony
  • Why this text is to be ascribed to Thomas Manlevelt
  • The manuscript
  • Comparison with other texts
  • Geographical circumstances
  • The dating of the questiones libri Porphirii
  • The franciscan context
  • The theologian background
  • Historical background
  • Porphyry's book, and what it is about
  • The organon
  • The categories
  • The Isagoge
  • The three questions
  • Commentaries on the Isagoge
  • Thomas Manlevelt's Ockhamism
  • Ockhamism in Oxford and in Paris
  • Parisian Denials of substance
  • The University of Paris
  • The University of Oxford
  • Manlevelt and Bradwardine : de incipit et desinit
  • Manlevelt and Bradwardine : Opus artis logicae
  • Form and contents of this text
  • The form : questiones
  • The structuring of the questiones
  • References given
  • Why a commentary?
  • The originality of Thomas Manlevelt's approach
  • Thomas Manlevelt's theory of signs
  • A brief summary of the contents of the questiones
  • The indcviduum
  • The accident
  • The general structure of the text
  • A comparison to other Questiones-commentaries on the Isagoge
  • Thomas Manlevelt's commentary, Questio by Questio
  • Description of the manuscript used
  • The editorial principles
  • Bibliography
  • Questiones Libriporphirii
  • Sigla
  • (Questio 1) : Utrum necesse sit aliquem scire quid genus sit et quid species etcetera ad cognitionem predicamentorum habendam
  • (Questio 2) : Utrum scire quid sit genus etcetera sit necesse ad divisionem faciendam
  • (Questio 3) : Utrum noscere quid sit genus sit necessarium ad assignationem diffinitionum
  • (Questio 4) : Utrum universale sit in intellectu
  • (Questio 5) : Utrum genus sit equivocum
  • (Questio 6) : Utrum genus sit cui supponitur species, et hoc est querere utrum ilia diffinitio generis sit bene data
  • (Questio 7) : Utrum genus sit principium suarum specierum
  • (Questio 8) : Utrum genus predicetur de pluribus differentibus specie
  • (Questio 9) : Utrum omne genus predicetur in quid
  • (Questio 10) : Utrum genus differat ab individuo
  • (Questio 11) : Utrum individuum predicetur de uno solo
  • (Questio 12) : Utrum aliquod individuum sit terminus communis
  • (Questio 13) : Utrum proprietas unius individui inveniatur in altero
  • (Questio 14) : Utrum species sit res distincta a termino sive a signo
  • (Questio 15) : Utrum homo sit species animalis
  • (Questio 16) : Utrum genus et species sint sibi invicem relativa
  • (Questio 17) : Utrum in diffinitione speciei sit necesse poni genus
  • (Questio 18) : Utrum ista diffinitio speciei 'Species est que predicatur de pluribus numero differentibus in eo quod quid sit', sit bona
  • (Questio 19) : Utrum omne quod est ante individua, sit species specialissima
  • (Questio 20) : Utrum individuum sit nomen appellativum
  • (Questio 21) : Utrum unum sit genus omnium; hoc est querere, utrum talia transcendentia aliquid, res, ens, sint genera
  • (Questio 22) : Utrum tantum sint decern genera et non plura, neque pauciora
  • (Questio 23) : Utrum genera generalissima sint principia rerum
  • (Questio 24) : Utrum infinita relinquenda sint ab arte
  • (Questio 25) : Utrum participatione speciei plures homines sint unus homo
  • (Questio 26) : Utrum inferiora predicentur de superioribus
  • (Questio 27) : Utrum species sit pars generis
  • (Questio 28) : Utrum aliquid differat a seipso
  • (Questio 29) : Utrum aliqua substantia differat ab alia separabili accidente
  • (Questio 30) : Utrum aliquid ab alio differat inseparabili accidente
  • (Questio 31) : Utrum differentia specifica semper faciat aliquid ab alio differre specie
  • (Questio 32) : Utrum omne faciens per se differre sit differentia specifica
  • (Questio 33) : Utrum differentia per se suscipiat magis et minus
  • (Questio 34) : Utrum hec differentia animation sensibile sit constitutiva substantie animalis
  • (Questio 35) : Utrum hec differentia immortale sit constitutiva Dei
  • (Questio 36) : Utrum eadem differentia sit divisiva generis et constitutiva speciei
  • (Questio 37) : Utrum differentia specifica sit necessaria ad divisionem generis
  • (Questio 38) : Utrum differentia specifica sit necessaria ad diffinitionem faciendam
  • (Questio 39) : Utrum ista diffinitio differentie sit bene data : 'differentia est qua abundat species a genere'
  • (Questio 40) : Utrum aliqua alia diffinitio differentie convertitur cum differentia
  • (Questio 41) : Utrum proprium dicatur quadrupliciter
  • (Questio 42) : Utrum aliquod accidens absit et assit preter subiecti corruptionem
  • (Questio 43) : Utrum ex subiecto et accidente componatur aliquod per se unum
  • (Questio 44) : Utrum corvus possit subintelligi albus
  • (Questio 45) : Utrum aliquod accidens sit genus substantiate
  • Index nominum
  • Index verborum notabilium
  • Index exemplorum
  • Index locorum.