TY - BOOK ID - 85656399 TI - Free will and the rebel angels in medieval philosophy PY - 2021 SN - 1316652882 1108922910 1108916325 110715538X 9781107155381 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Good and evil. KW - Angels. KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Evil KW - Wickedness KW - Ethics KW - Philosophy KW - Polarity KW - Religious thought KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Angelology KW - Cherubim KW - Cherubs (Spirits) KW - Divine messengers KW - Seraphim KW - Spirits KW - Compatibilism KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Free agency KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Liberty of the will KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Free will and determinism KW - Good and evil KW - Angels KW - Philosophy, Medieval UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85656399 AB - In this book Tobias Hoffmann studies the medieval free will debate during its liveliest period, from the 1220s to the 1320s, and clarifies its background in Aristotle, Augustine, and earlier medieval thinkers. Among the wide range of authors he examines are not only well-known thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham, but also a number of authors who were just as important in their time and deserve to be rediscovered today. To shed further light on their theories of free will, Hoffmann also explores their competing philosophical explanations of the fall of the angels, that is, the hypothesis of an evil choice made by rational beings under optimal psychological conditions. As he shows, this test case imposed limits on tracing free choices to cognition. His book provides a comprehensive account of a debate that was central to medieval philosophy and continues to occupy philosophers today. ER -