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The Quarrel over Future Contingents (Louvain 1465–1475)

Unpublished Texts Collected by Leon Baudry

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  • © 1989

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  1. N. Kretzmann

    1. Cornell University, USA

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  2. G. Nuchelmans

    1. University of Leyden, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Synthese Historical Library (SYHL, volume 36)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • N. Kretzmann, G. Nuchelmans
      Pages 1-32

  3. Part One

    1. Statute of the University of Louvain of the Year 1447

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      Pages 33-35

    2. A Quodlibetal Question Disputed at Louvain in the year 1465

      • Peter de Rivo
      Pages 36-45

    3. Another Treatise of Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 46-52

    4. Another Treatise of Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 53-55

    5. Fragments from Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 56-60

    6. Petition of Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 61-61

    7. Peter de Rivo’s Theses

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      Pages 62-64

    8. Replies of Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 65-73

    9. Record of the Time of Events

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      Pages 74-79

    10. A Brief Treatise on Future Contingents by Francis Cardinal of Saint Peter in Chains

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      Pages 80-90

    11. An Anonymous Treatise on the Subject of Future Contingents

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      Pages 91-98

    12. Treatise of Master Fernand of Cordova

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      Pages 99-134

    13. An Anonymous Treatise on the Truths of Future Contingents Against Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 135-170

    14. Interrogations

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      Pages 171-171

    15. Replies of Peter de Rivo

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      Pages 172-176

    16. Sentence of the Rector against Henry de Zomeren

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      Pages 177-196

    17. Conclusion of the Faculty of Theology at Cologne

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      Pages 197-198

    18. Conclusion of the Theologians of Louvain

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      Pages 199-203
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About this book

The Latin texts collected by Leon Baudry present the late fifteenth­ century debate at the University of Louvain over the truth-value of proposi­ tions about future contingent events, a subject of perennial interest in phil osophy. The theologians held fast to divine predetermination, and the Aristotelians in the Arts Faculty supported the doctrine of free choice based on indeterminism. Although the issues in the debate are still argued in philosophy, this rich collection of the theories and arguments has been neglected. Peter de Rivo and Henry de Zomeren, the principal antagonists, are cited in the recent literature, but only on the basis of slight, mostly second-hand information. The full collection of texts has never before been translated into English (or any other modern language), leaving them inaccessible to the majority of students, or any others who are not equipped to work their way through 450 pages of fifteenth-century scholastic Latin. Apart from their philosophical significance, the texts shed light on late scholastic methods in teaching and disputation, on university politics of the period in relation to the Vatican, the Court of the Duke of Burgundy, and the faculties of other great universities, and on legal procedures both secular and ecclesiastical. The human drama that develops as the debate proceeds should hold the interest of even the non-specialist.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cornell University, USA

    N. Kretzmann

  • University of Leyden, Netherlands

    G. Nuchelmans

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Quarrel over Future Contingents (Louvain 1465–1475)

  • Book Subtitle: Unpublished Texts Collected by Leon Baudry

  • Editors: N. Kretzmann, G. Nuchelmans

  • Series Title: Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1039-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6959-5Published: 26 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1039-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0082-111X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 468

  • Topics: Medieval Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, History, general

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