Nicholas of Amsterdam ：Commentary on the Old Logic. Critical edition with introduction and indexes ( Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie )

Publication subTitle ：Commentary on the Old Logic. Critical edition with introduction and indexes

Publication series ： Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie

Author： Egbert P. Bos  

Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789027266477

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027214683

Subject： B502.233 Aristotle (Aristoteles, in 384 BC - 322 BC) before

Keyword： Medieval philosophyPhilosophy

Language： ENG

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Nicholas of Amsterdam

Description

Master Nicholas of Amsterdam was a prominent master of arts in Germany during the first half of the fifteenth century. He composed various commentaries on Aristotle’s works. One of these commentaries is on the logica vetus , the old logic, viz. on Porphyry’s Isagoge and on Aristotle’s Categories and On Interpretation. This commentary is edited and introduced here.
Nicholas is a ‘modernus’ – as opposed to the ‘antiqui’, who were realists – which means that he is a conceptualist belonging to the university tradition that accepted John Buridan (ca. 1300-1360 or 1361) and Marsilius of Inghen (ca. 1340-1396) as its masters. In medieval philosophy, a parallel between thinking and reality is generally upheld. Nicholas makes a sharp distinction between the two; this may be interpreted as a step towards a separation between the two realms, as is common in philosophy in later centuries.
Other characteristics of Nicholas are that he defends the position that science has its place in a proposition, and does not simply follow reality. Furthermore, he emphasizes the part played by individual things.
Fifteenth-century philosophy has hardly been studied, mainly because that century has long been considered unoriginal. Nicholas of Amsterdam certainly deserves the historian’s interest in order to evaluate how medieval philosophy prepared the way for modern philosophy.

Chapter

Preface and acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Preliminary remarks

2. Nicholas of Amsterdam: life and works

2.1 Life

2.2 Works

2.3 Date of Nicholas’ commentary on the ars vetus

3. Curriculum of the philosophical faculty of the University of Rostock

4. Form of the questions

5. The commentary as an exercitium (‘exercise’)

6. Principles of Nicholas’ philosophy in his Commentary on the ars vetus

6.1 Nicholas as a conceptualist

6.2 Speaking in terms of reality or in terms of logic

6.3 Limitations of human knowledge

6.4 Semantics

6.4.1 Conventional language

6.5 On ‘individual’

6.5.1 Singular concepts

6.5.2 Relation of individual terms with the imagination

7. Equivocal concepts

8. Category of quantity

8.1 Status of quantity

8.2 Nicholas’ solution

9. Nicholas of Amsterdam on modal propositions

10. Principle of non-contradiction

10.1 Aristotle

10.2 John Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen

10.3 Nicholas’ solution

11. Conclusions

12. Manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 500

12.1 Nicholas’ Quaestiones logicales on the old logic

12.1.1 Exercitium in Porphyrium

12.1.2 Exercitium super Praedicamenta Aristotelis

12.1.3 Exercitium super De interpretatione Aristotelis

12.2 Nicholas’ commentary on the new logic: the exercitium novae logicae

13. Edition basis, orthography, syntax

13.1 Basis

13.2 Orthography

13.3 Syntax

13.4 Apparatus fontium

Appendix to the introduction

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Primary literature

Secondary literature

Tabula quaestionum

Textus

Circa nobile et multum utile nec non delectabile exercitium veteris artis venerabilis magistri

(1) Et quaeritur primo, utrum tantum quinque sint habitus intellectuales

(2) Quaeritur secundo, utrum de universalibus sit scientia

(3) Quaeritur tertio, utrum universale sit subiectum scientiae libri Porphyrii

(4) Quaeritur quarto, utrum ‘universale’ sit genus ad quinque praedicabilia

(5) Quaeritur quinto, utrum notitia quinque universalium sit necessaria

(6) Consequenter quaeritur sexto, utrum universalia sint substantiae vel accidentia

(7) Quaeritur septimo consequenter, utrum sint ponenda aliqua universalia realia

(8) Quaeritur octavo, utrum definitio generis posita a Porphyrio...

(9) Quaeritur nono, utrum definitio speciei sit bona in qua dicitur ‘species est quod praedicatur...

(10) Quaeritur decimo, utrum hae propositiones sint concedendae ‘homo est species’...

(11) Quaeritur undecimo, utrum ens sit unius rationis ad decem praedicamenta, hoc est

(12) Quaeritur duodecimo, utrum definitio individui data a Porphyrio sit bona...

(13) Quaeritur decimo tertio, utrum definitio differentiae sit bona qua dicitur ‘differentia est...

(14) Consequenter quaeritur decimo quarto, utrum coordinatio praedicabilium...

(15) Quaeritur decimo quinto, utrum definitio proprii sit bona in qua dicitur ‘proprium est...

(16) Quaeritur decimo sexto, utrum definitio accidentis sit bona in qua dicitur ‘accidens est...

(17) Quaeritur decimo septimo, utrum tantum quinque sint praedicabilia

Exercitium in Praedicamenta

(1) Quaeritur primo, utrum aequivocum sit univocum

(2) utrum definitiones aequivocorum et univocorum sint bene positae...

(3) Consequenter , utrum definitio denominativorum sit bona...

(4) utrum duae divisiones antepraedicamentales sint bene dictae...

(5) Quaeritur consequenter, utrum duae regulae antepraedicamentales sint bene dictae...

(6) Consequenter quaeritur, utrum substantia sit genus generalissimum.

(7) Consequenter quaeritur, utrum substantia bene dividatur in substantiam primam et secundam.

(8) Consequenter quaeritur, utrum proprium sit substantiae in subiecto non esse.

(9) , utrum proprium sit substantiae univoce praedicari.

(10) utrum istae duae proprietates, scilicet tertia et quarta...

(11) utrum quinta et sexta proprietas sint bene dictae...

(12) utrum quantitas sit unum praedicamentum ab aliis distinctum.

(13) utrum quantitas bene dividatur in continuam et discretam.

(14) Sequitur decima quarta quaestio, utrum septem species praedicamenti quantitatis....

(15) Quaeritur decimo quinto, utrum tres proprietates quantitatis sint bene assignatae...

(16) utrum relatio seu ad aliquid sit unum generalissimum...

(17) utrum definitiones ad aliquid sint bene dictae...

(18) utrum primae duae proprietates ‘ad aliquid’ sint bene dictae...

(19) utrum omnia relativa ad convertentiam dicantur.

(20) utrum esse simul natura sit proprium relativorum.

(21) Alia quaestio, utrum si quis definite noverit unum relativorum, definite noscet et reliquum.

(22) utrum qualitas sit unum genus generalissimum...

(23) utrum habitus et dispositio sint una species qualitatis.

(24) utrum naturalis potentia vel impotentia sit secunda species qualit

(25) utrum passio et passibilis qualitas sit tertia species qualitatis.

(26) utrum tantum quattuor sint species qualitatis a Philosopho...

(27) utrum tres proprietates praedicamenti qualitatis...

(28) Quaeritur utrum praedicamenta actionis et passionis...

(29) Quaeritur utrum ‘ubi’ et ‘quando’ sint praedicamenta et ab aliis distincta.

(30) utrum situs et habitus sint praedicamenta inter se et ab aliis distincta

(31) utrum tantum decem sint praedicamenta.

(32) utrum tantum quinque sint postpraedicamenta...

Exercitium in Peri hermeneias

Liber I

(I, 1) Circa librum Peri hermeneias movetur talis quaestio prima, utrum enuntiatio...

(I, 2) utrum voces sint signa conceptuum.

(I, 3) utrum definitio nominis posita a Philosopho qua dicitur ‘Nomen est...

(I, 4) utrum definitio verbi posita a Philosopho qua dicitur ‘verbum est...

(I, 5) utrum propositio universalis et sua particularis aequipolleant...

(I, 6) utrum duo contradictoria possint simul esse vera.

(I, 7) utrum omnis universalis sit falsa in qua universale universaliter...

(I, 8) utrum aliqua propositio de futuro contingenti sit determinate vera.

(I, 9) utrum omne quod est quando est, necesse sit esse.

Liber II

(II, 1) Circa initium secundi Peri hermeneias , utrum ab affirmativa...

(II, 2) utrum nomina et verba transposita idem significent.

(II, 3) utrum a divisis ad coniuncta valeat consequentia.

(II, 4) utrum ista propositio ‘Sortem possibile est non esse’...

(II, 5) utrum in modalibus reperiatur oppositio et aequipollentia...

Appendices

Appendix I. Utrum Porphyrius definiat universalia pro re extra, vel pro intentione sive conceptu

Appendix II. An locus sit de genere quantitatis

Appendix III. Dubitatur, utrum relatio sit distincta a suo fundamento

Appendix IV. Utrum omne ens aut sit in anima aut extra animam

Indices

Index terminorum

Index nominum antiquorum et mediaevalium

Index locorum

Index manuscriptorum

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