Overview
- Explores the concept of habit, a key topic in medieval philosophy
- Offers a historical approach that covers the whole medieval period, from Augustine to Suárez
- Features 20 essays from leading experts on the subject
Part of the book series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (HSNA, volume 7)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suàrez and Descartes. Habitus are defined as stable dispositions to act or think in a certain way. This definition was passed down to the medieval thinkers from Aristotle and, to a lesser extent, Augustine, and played a key role in many of the philosophical and theological developments of the time.
Written by leading experts in medieval and modern philosophy, the book offers a historical overview that examines the topic in light of recent advances in medieval cognitive psychology and medieval moral theory. Coverage includes such topics as the metaphysics of the soul, the definition of virtue and vice, and the epistemology of self-knowledge. The book also contains an introduction that is the first attempt at a comprehensive survey of the nature and function of habitus in medieval thought.
The material will appeal to a wide audience of historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers. It is relevant as much to the historian of ancient philosophy who wants to track the historical reception of Aristotelian ideas as it is to historians of modern philosophy who would like to study the progressive disappearance of the term “habitus” in the early modern period and the concepts that were substituted for it. In addition, the volume will also be of interest to contemporary philosophers open to historical perspectives in order to renew current trends in cognitive psychology, virtue epistemology, and virtue ethics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nicolas Faucher is a postdoctoral researcher in medieval philosophy at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Reason and Religious Recognition, and an associate member of the Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Monothéismes (CNRS, France). He received his PhD in December 2015 from the Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris) and the Università degli Studi di Bari - Aldo Moro. His research focuses on thepsychological and epistemological aspects of the habitus and act of faith in the 13th and 14th centuries, as well as on voluntary belief in general and the links between rhetoric and belief.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy
Editors: Nicolas Faucher, Magali Roques
Series Title: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00235-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00234-3Published: 22 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00235-0Published: 12 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-4793
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 413
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind