Research Catalog

Title

The division and methods of the sciences : Questions V and VI of his Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius / St. Thomas Aquinas ; translated with introduction and notes, by Armand Maurer.

Author

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274

Publication

Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies ; Leiden ; Distributed outside North America by E.J. Brill, c1986.

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Additional Authors

• Maurer, Armand A. (Armand Augustine), 1915-
• Maurer, Armand A. (Armand Augustine), 1915-2008
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Description

xli, 119 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Mediaeval sources in translation ; 3

Uniform Title

• Expositio super Boetium de Trinitate. Selections. English
• Mediaeval sources in translation ; 3.

Alternative Title

Expositio super Boetium de Trinitate.

Subject

• Boethius, -524
• Classification of sciences
• Classification of sciences > Early works to 1800

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [103]-114.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Question five. The division of speculative science. 1. Is speculative science appropriately divided into these three parts: natural, mathematical and divine? 2. Does natural philosophy treat of what exists in motion and matter? 3. Does mathematics treat, without motion and matter, of what exists in matter? 4. Does divine science treat of what exists without matter and motion? -- question 6. The methods of speculative science. 1. Must we proceed according to the mode of reason in natural science, according to the mode of learning in mathematics, and according to the mode of intellect in divine science? 2. Should we entirely abandon the imaginatin in divine science? 3. Can our intellect behold the divine form itself? 4. Can our intellect behold the divine form by means of some speculative science?

ISBN

• 0888442793
• 9004079327 (Brill)

OCLC

• 962493188
• SCSB-11294779

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library