Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought

This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology.

Autorentext

Corey Barnes is Robert S. Danforth Associate Professor of Religion at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhalt

1. The Beginnings of the End: Aristotle on Natural Final Causality 2. After Aristotle: Commentators, Critics, and Harmonizers 3. Arabic Commentators and the Bifurcation of Aristotelian Interpretation 4. Nature and the Good in Scholastic Receptions of Aristotle 5. The Order of Finality in Scholastic Thought 6. Finality and Intentionality