FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2006307428> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2006307428 endingPage "286" @default.
• W2006307428 startingPage "265" @default.
• W2006307428 abstract "Teleology in the Ethics of Buridan JAMES J. WALSH I. TO SET THE STAGE FOR THIS STUDY, let me invoke an impression developed by Vernon Bourke from the careful researches embodied in his History. of Ethics. It is Bourke's view that there was a significant shift in emphasis in ethical thought during the fourteenth century, from traditional teleology to modern deontology. Thus, for many ancient thinkers, man is by nature ordered to an ultimate end, and the philosopher's task is to formulate the end and show how it may be attained. But for many moderns, man's moral situation is oriented rather to the law. The philosopher's task is to spell out that law and justify the obligation to obey it. Bourke finds the thought of William of Ockham leading the way toward the modem conception and links this move to Ockham's nominalism and voluntarism. Without a common nature, man can hardly be oriented by nature to any ultimate end; he is thus left, as it were, face-to-face with the omnipotent divine will, obligated to obedience to divine commands which are without natural foundation . Whether or not this is the standard interpretation of Ockham's significance on this topic, it is hardly idiosyncratic. 1 cite Bourke here only because of his laudable effort to assess the significance of fourteenth-century thought in the wider framework of the history of ethics, and because of the straightforwardness of his formulations. I shall not be directly concerned with the accuracy of this interpretation. 1 shall operate rather on what I hope is a relevant tangent, using this view of Ockham as a deontological pioneer only as a point of departure. One presumes, pending possible reassessments of later medieval intellectual alignments, that the major vehicle for Ockham's influence was the via moderna, the nominalist curriculum in many universities, especially in central and eastern Europe. In those universities, ethics was studied through the standard set-text, the Nicomachean Ethics. But Ockham did not write a commentary on the Ethics. His moral doctrine is found in his Commentary on the Sentences and the Quodlibeta Septem, aimed for the most part at graduate theologians. To see the ethics taught in the nominalist curricula, one must look at commentaries on the Ethics by nominalist masters. A few of these have been studied, with some curious results. Albert of Saxony, a leading nominalist at Vienna, drew heavily from Walter Burley for his commentary. Burley was a famous opponent of Ockham on many issues and drew in turn from St. Thomas. ~ The most popular commentary seems to have been by John I wishto thank Bonnie Dornck Kent,John Favareau, and ProfessorPaul Kristellerfor help with thisstudy. I should record the view of Mrs Kent that important background materials can be found m St. Anselm and Duns Scotus. She may well be right, but one has to limit such studies severely. I See V. Bourke, History,ofEthics (GardenCtty, N.Y.: Image Books, 1970),vol. 1, pp. 10, 153ff. Among many possible confirming studies, see especially A. Garvens, Die Grundlagender Ethik Wilhelms von Ockham , FranziskamscheStudien 21 (1934):243-73, 360-408. esp. 249. 2The standard study of Albert of Saxony's commentary ts G. Hetdmgsfelder, Albert yon Sachsen: Sein Lebensgang und sein Kommentar zur Nicomachischen Ethlk des Anstoteles,' Beitrage zur Geschwhte der Philosophw des Mtttelalters 22 (1921), pts. 3-4 Burley's commentary has been studiedby G Gomes, m [265] 266 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Buridan, the leading nominalist at Paris. Manuscripts abound, there were several printed editions, and Buridan's work influenced commentaries by many others) It, too, contains material drawn from an opponent of Ockham, material pertinent to our topic, which will be pursued in detail shortly. Some time ago I presented a study of Buridan's commentary which argued that although on some points it is nominalist in method, the substantive ethical doctrine differs significantly from what is usually attributed to Ockham .4 A part of that difference involves teleology. Ockham claimed that it cannot be proved for any given occurrence that it has a final cause, nor can it be proved by natural reason whether or not everything is oriented to a single..." @default.
• W2006307428 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2006307428 creator A5064609831 @default.
• W2006307428 date "1980-01-01" @default.
• W2006307428 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W2006307428 title "Teleology in the Ethics of Buridan" @default.
• W2006307428 cites W1488274952 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W1984948077 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W1985769604 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W1995374362 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W2045010850 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W2072077916 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W2312185895 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W2334411172 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W2511842832 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W434565320 @default.
• W2006307428 cites W573811680 @default.
• W2006307428 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2008.0577" @default.
• W2006307428 hasPublicationYear "1980" @default.
• W2006307428 type Work @default.
• W2006307428 sameAs 2006307428 @default.
• W2006307428 citedByCount "3" @default.
• W2006307428 countsByYear W20063074282013 @default.
• W2006307428 countsByYear W20063074282019 @default.
• W2006307428 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2006307428 hasAuthorship W2006307428A5064609831 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C155785087 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C179958297 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C193308744 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C2778447849 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C2779304628 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C527412718 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConcept C80038905 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C111472728 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C138885662 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C155785087 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C17744445 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C179958297 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C193308744 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C199539241 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C2778447849 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C2779304628 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C41895202 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C527412718 @default.
• W2006307428 hasConceptScore W2006307428C80038905 @default.
• W2006307428 hasIssue "3" @default.
• W2006307428 hasLocation W20063074281 @default.
• W2006307428 hasOpenAccess W2006307428 @default.
• W2006307428 hasPrimaryLocation W20063074281 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W1989763427 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W2006307428 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W2060665322 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W2085272097 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W2965175895 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W3133125339 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W3194004458 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W4235860268 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W621604394 @default.
• W2006307428 hasRelatedWork W2099441912 @default.
• W2006307428 hasVolume "18" @default.
• W2006307428 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2006307428 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2006307428 magId "2006307428" @default.
• W2006307428 workType "article" @default.