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020			_a9780199663224
082			_a189 MAR
100			_aMarenbon, John
245			_aMedieval Philosophy : A Very Short Introduction
260			_bOxford University Press _aOxford _c2016
300			_a141
440			_aVery Short Introductions
520			_aFor many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian Europe, and is instead one of the most exciting and diversified periods in the history of thought. Introducing the coexisting strands of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish philosophy, Marenbon shows how these traditions all go back to the Platonic schools of late antiquity and explains the complex ways in which they are interlinked. Providing an overview of some of the main thinkers, such as Boethius, Abelard, al-Fârâbî, Avicenna, Maimonides, and Gersonides, and the topics, institutions and literary forms of medieval philosophy, he discusses in detail some of the key issues in medieval thought: universals; mind, body and mortality; foreknowledge and freedom; society and the best life.
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aMedieval Philosophy
650			_aEuropean History--Philosphy
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