Browsing Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval. N. 28/1 (2021) by Title
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“…cupiens mathematicam tractare infra radices metaphyse...” Roger Bacon on Mathematical Abstraction
(UCOPress, 2021)In some passages of the Opus maius and the Opus tertium, Roger Bacon holds that mathematical objects are the immediate and adequate objects of human’s intellect: in our sensible life, the intellect develops mostly around ... -
Introduction. Roger Bacon within the Medieval Setting: New Findings.
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Knowledge and Power: Courtly science and political utility in the work of Roger Bacon.
(UCOPress, 2021)In his major works for the pope, as well as several other works from his maturity, Bacon focused on the utility of natural knowledge, both in terms of human know-how and what that know-how could produce. He looked to the ... -
Roger Bacon's De Signis, a missing part of Opus Maius III and the "Knowledge of Languages"
(UCOPress, 2021)Roger Bacon’s De signis is a major contribution in the history of semantics. However, we know from the author's summary given in the Opus tertium that it has come down to us in an incomplete form. It belongs to the third ... -
Roger Bacon’s New Metaphysics (1260-1292): The Integration of Language Study and Natural Science With Metaphysics and Morals.
(UCOPress, 2021)The paper presents evidence that Roger Bacon was endeavouring to structure what he considered as a “new metaphysics”. Moreover, it identifies the Opus maius as Bacon’s new preliminary text in metaphysics and morals. The ... -
Tota Familia Aristotelis: on some sources of Bacon's contribution to medieval political discourse.
(UCOPress, 2021)Writing his Moralis philosophia, Roger Bacon discussed issues relevant to medieval political discourse. He felt the need to appeal to the authority of Aristotle, but having no access to Aristotle’s Politica, he tried to ... -
'Virtus' and 'species' in the Philosophy of Nature of Roger Bacon (c. 1220-1293)
(UCOPress, 2021)The paper examines Roger Bacon’s use of the concept of virtus in the Communia naturalium and De multiplication specierum. It focuses on the roles which virtus and species play as vehicles of causality in the inanimate ...