Late medieval and early modern intellectual history

Scotus, Ockham, Wyclif, Buridan, Grotius, Bayle

Copyright © 1995, 1999, R.J. Kilcullen.

The linked files are:

1. Corrected Latin text for the passages from Ockham's Dialogus translated in William of Ockham, A Letter to the Friars Minor and other Writings, ed. Arthur Stephen McGrade and John Kilcullen (Cambridge University Press, 1995). The passages are:

   • Dialogus, part III, tract 1, book 2, chs. 1-30

   • Dialogus, part III, tract 1, book 3, chs. 8-11
     

   • Dialogus, part III, tract 1, book 4, chs. 8-11
     
   • Dialogus, part III, tract 1, book 4, ch. 22
     
   • Dialogus, part III, tract 2, prologue and book 1, chs. 1-5
     
   • Dialogus, part III, tract 2, chs. 6-17
     
   • Dialogus, part III, tract 2, book 3, chs. 5-7

   (An electronic edition on World Wide Web of William of Ockham, Dialogus, Latin text with translation, is being made by John Kilcullen and John Scott for the Medieval Text Committee of the British Academy.)

2. Corrections to the translation published in A Letter.
   (Please send other corrections to: john.kilcullen@mq.edu.au)

3. William of Ockham, The Work of Ninety Days, Introduction, Translation and Notes, by John Kilcullen and John Scott (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001).

4. Papers relating to Ockham's "political" writings:

   • "Ockham and infallibility" (republished with the editor's permission from The Journal of Religious History (publisher Blackwells)

   • "Natural Law and Will in Ockham" (republished from the History of Philosopy Yearbook, vol. 1, of The Australasian Society for the History of Philosophy, ed. Knud Haakonssen and Udo Thiel (Canberra, 1993). Republished as an appendix to The Work of Ninety Days.)

   • Introduction to Ockham's Work of Ninety Days

   • "The Origin of Property: Ockham, Grotius, Pufendorf, and some others" (published as an appendix to The Work of Ninety Days)
     

   • Ockham's Political Writings (from P.V. Spade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham (Cambridge, 1999).
5. Translations (pretty rough) of documents relevant to the controversy over the Franciscan idea of poverty as a religious ideal (from which Ockham's "political" writings arose). The documents are:

   • Exiit qui seminat
     

   • Exivi de Paradiso
     
   • Ad conditorem
     
   • Cum inter nonnullos
     
   • Quia quorundam
     
   • Quia vir reprobus
    

   See other translations of Exiit and Exivi.

6. A translation of Johannes Duns Scotus, Ordinatio, II, dist. 3, pars 1, q. 5 and q. 6, 'Whether a material substance is "This" and individual through matter?', and 'Whether a material substance is individual through some positive entity, per se determining the nature to singularity?'

7. A translation of William of Ockham, Ordinatio, I, dist. 2, q. 6, 'Whether the universal is really outside the soul, not really distinct from the individual?'

8. Script of taped lectures in the course PHIL360 Later Medieval Philosophy:

   • Lecture 6, Scotus on Universals

   • Lecture 8, Ockham on Universals
      

   • Lecture 9, Ockham on Relations.

9. Latin text of Johannes Buridan, Super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis, book 10:

   • collation

   • corrected text

10. Latin text of Johannes Wyclif, De civili dominio, Book 1, chs. 1-10:

    • collation

    • corrected text

    For translations of 9 and 10 see The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, Volume 2, Ethics and Political Philosophy, Edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade, John Kilcullen, Matthew Kempshall (Cambridge University Press 2000).

     

11. Bayle on the Rights of Conscience

12. Medieval political theory

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