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God and Reason in the Middle Ages 0th Edition

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The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology, and to a much lesser extent in medicine and law. The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age of superstition, barbarism, and unreason.
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    0521003377
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    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    January 5, 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 1.02 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    408 pages
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"...Grant's book will produce some interesting future discussions. Inside and outside the classroom, it promises to be a useful catalyst for rethinking and debating a period often considered marginal." ISIS

"Grant's argument is sound and convincing. Furthermore, his work is strengthened by a keen ability for precision and detail as well as willingness to engage earlier and contemporary historians of early Christianity." American Historical Review

"...the book remains a rich resource for examples of intellectual life in medieval universities, and succeeds in its purpose in shedding light on the medieval origins of modern science." Sixteenth Century Journal

"Grant's subversive history is persuasive, enlightening, and copiously documented." - Brian J. Shanley, O.P., The Catholic University of America

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This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 0 edition (January 5, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521003377
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521003377
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1340L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.02 x 9 inches
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  • Scott E. Hendrix
    5.0 out of 5 stars A readable study of medieval intellectual traditions
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020
    Edward Grant was one of the true greats when it came to medieval intellectual history. This study corrects the oft-repeated idea that the middle ages was a period of intellectual stagnation by highlighting the many positive developments to occur in the 12th through 14th century. Grant's central argument is that medieval thinkers saw the world as structured according to reasoned principles, because God is perfectly reasonable and infused the laws of reason into the cosmos. Thus, medieval thinkers recovered and built upon Aristotle's logic in order to understand the world around them due to, rather than in spite of, their religious beliefs. It's a very strong argument and one that shows the debt the modern world owes to the middle ages.
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  • Jordan Bell
    4.0 out of 5 stars Natural philosophy embedded in theology
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2014
    This book is a survey of the teaching and writing of scholars at medieval universities. Grant has written many papers and books on medieval science; his "A Source Book in Medieval Science" is comprehensive and is especially good. Because Grant has such a magisterial knowledge about scholastic science, he is unusually qualified to make general remarks about the work of scholastics.

    The book contains uncommonly many block quotations from secondary literature. This was particularly noticeable with subjects like law and medicine, about which Grant does not have the same knowledge he does about natural philosophy. However, if you're writing a survey and want to mention topics of which you do not have mastery, then it is indeed more useful to the reader and more candid to give well chosen quotations from well chosen authors than to give an inadequate presentation yourself.

    Grant shows many examples of natural philosophy embedded in writings of medieval theologians. A prominent example of this is the discussion of the infinite. If God is not constrained by laws of the natural world (namely, God is supernatural), then at best God is constrained by logical rules, and this led to theologians talking about problems detached from whether they are consistent with natural laws, but merely whether they are logically possible. For example, Gregory of Rimini argues that God can create an infinity of angels in an hour by creating one angel in the first half of the hour, another angel in the in the first half of what remains, another angel in the first half of what remains, etc., and that at the end of the hour there will be infinitely many angels. It is easy to dismiss questions of this type as frivolous, and indeed if one thinks angels are the point of the question then it may be silly. But the significance of these writings is that they developed difficult concepts like the infinite and developed ways of talking precisely about these concepts. It would be similarly thoughtless to attack economists for writing about the production of widgets.
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  • Russael
    2.0 out of 5 stars Answers the question, How exactly did Aristotelian logic eat the Middle Ages?
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024
    Exactly what I needed content-wise. Book was premium price, $26.xx, three times the normal prices for online. An e-textbook. And for that you got a condescending and incompetent navigational setup. No sidebar table of contents, no change of font or size, book forgets where you were if you move more than once, couldn't read the page numbers at the bottom of the page, couldn't highlight the top line of every page. Essential reading, navigational ripoff.

    Contentwise, are deduction and induction both reason? Does that not merge two things that are really opposite? Is is really true that scholasticism led to science? This book asserts that, but is it true?
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  • Lucas Admiraal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019
    A very helpful look at the role of reason in the theology, philosophy, and logic of the Middle Ages. Grant does a great service to students and scholars by distilling a broad variety of primary sources into a manageable size for non-experts in this field.
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  • John Estrada
    5.0 out of 5 stars god and reason in the middle ages
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2007
    Excellent to investigate about the debates between philosophers and theologicians during the late middle ages.
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