Thomas Aquinas Fall 2014: The Nature and Attainment of Happiness
Optional Additional Literature
Thomas Aquinas Fall 2014: The Nature and Attainment of Happiness
Optional Additional Literature
(forthcoming)
Some Optional Additional Literature
Abbreviations:
SEP = Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
CCAP = The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, P. Adamson and R.C. Taylor, eds.
CAP = Classical Arabic Philosophy: an Anthology of Sources, J. McGinnis & D. B. Reisman, tr, (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007)
CHMP = The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, R. Pasnau, ed. (New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
EMP = Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy 500 -1500, H. Lagerlund, ed. (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2011) Available in the Reference area at the MU library.
OHMP = Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, John Marenbon, ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2012)
Past Masters Database = Marquette University subscription to Past Masters available to MU students through Marqcat.
MU Ares = Marquette University Ares Reserve for MU students only.
Note: Some of the works cited here may be available in the MU Ares Reserves for this course.
General Works
James A. Weisheipl, Thomas D’Aquino (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press 1974)
J.-P. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1, The Person and His Work (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1996)
Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (New york & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
..... Alfarabi, Avicenna, & Averroes, on Intellect (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 1988)
Aristotle
C.D. C. Reeve, Action, Contemplation and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012
The Greek Commentators
The Philosophy of the Commentators, Richard Sorabji, ed. & tr., v. 1 Psychology, London: Duckworth, 2004
al-Kindi
Peter Adamson, Al-Kindi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Avicenna
Dimitri Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works. Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition, Including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014.