William of Ockham

In preparation for the projected critical edition of Ockham’s Opera Philosophica et Theologica, Philotheus Boehner, OFM, described the extant manuscripts and discussed the authenticity and date of composition of Ockham’s writings. He also studied and illustrated Ockham’s teaching on logic, metaphysics, and political theories. Eligius Buytaert, OFM, Boehner’s successor and disciple collected, regrouped, and indexed 24 articles in this volume, which is an indispensable introduction to the study of William of Ockham.

ISBN 1-57659-101-8
EAN 978-1-57659-101-7
482 pages
Tradepaper
1958

$19.95

Ockham’s two great principles were the Principle of divine Omnipotence – and the Principle of Parsimony – Plurality is never to be posited without necessity. The Tractatus takes all of Ockham’s views and explains them as related to, or consequences of, the two principles – 167 from the Principle of Divine Omnipotence, 81 from the Principle of Parsimony.

ISBN 1-57659-129-8
EAN 978-1-57659-129-1
135 pages
Tradepaper
1997

$15.00

This edition of a masterpiece of genuine scholastic Logic was published in 1955. It contains the critical editions of two 13th century manuscripts written by the Englishman Magister Walter Burleigh containing his systemic work on Logic. Burleigh was a Friar Minor and medieval philosopher, b. in 1275 and d. in 1337. He was preceptor to Edward, Prince of Wales, who afterward ascended the throne as Edward III in 1327. At Oxford he was the school-fellow of William of Occam, both being disciples of Duns Scotus. He taught at Paris for some time and was known as the Plain and Perspicuous Doctor (Doctor planus et perspicuus). Burleigh figured prominently in the dispute concerning the nature of universals.

ISBN 1-57659-057-7
EAN 978-1-57659-057-7
264 pages
Tradepaper
1955

$12.95

Adam de Wodeham († 1358), a Franciscan philosopher and theologian, was the most brilliant disciple of William of Ockham († 1347), and a competent and reliable interpreter of the teaching of his master. The publication of his previously unedited work is a sequel and complement to the edition of William of Ockham’s Opera Philosophica et Theologica.

In the prologue Wodeham questions what evidence is accessible to us in the present life. The first three questions of Distinction 1 deal with the nature of science generally, and specifically with theology as a science.
Only after a significant discussion concerning these questions does Wodeham proceed to fruition and beatific vision, the subjects with which most authors begin Distinction 1. From the end of volume I, through the Distinctiones in volumes II and III, Wodeham follows the order of Peter Lombard’s Sentences.

This set includes:

Volume I
Prologus et distinctio 1
edited by Rega Wood.

Volume II
Distinctiones 2-7
edited by (†) Gedeon Gál, OFM.

Volume III
Distinctiones 8-26
edited by Rega Wood.

Each volume $75.00; special price for three-volume set = $169.95

Ockham on Aristotle’s Physics: A Translation of Ockham’s Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum Translated by Julian Davies, OFM
The Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum is one of four works on natural philosophy written by William of Ockham (14th century). As the title indicates, it is a short treatise. This compendium on Aristotle’s physics is presented here in a quite readable English translation.

ISBN 1-57659-060-7
ISBN 978-1-57659-060-7
170 pages
Tradepaper
1989

$12.00

Produced over a career of six decades, Allan Wolter’s monumental editions, translations, commentaries
and studies constitute by far the largest and most influential body of scholarship by any modern author
of John Duns Scotus. The present collections brings together twelve of Wolter’s seminal articles, most of which have never been reprinted, as well as two new studies written for this volume. They range over
the length of Wolter’s career and represent the breadth of his interests: Scotus’s literary
production and academic career, his metaphysics, ethics, and theologoy, and his relation to Ockham and other Franciscan theologians.

ISBN 1-57659-188-3
EAN 978-1-57659-188-8
350 pages
Tradepaper
2003

$24.95

With a more detailed study of Ockham's teaching on the Eucharist, it is hoped, it will be determined whether the Venerable Inceptor was deserving of the suspicion and the blame heaped on his head by the ex-chancellor of Oxford and of the censure subsequently attached to some of his Eucharistic teachings by the papal commission at Avignon.

ISBN 1-57659-031-3
EAN 978-1-57659-031-7
157 Pages
Tradepaper
1974

French Franciscan Vital Du Four was a counselor to two popes, Clement V and John XXII, and was a central figure in the poverty controversy of the early fourteenth century. Vital du Four (Bazas, 1260-Avignon, 1327) was a French Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher. He became Cardinal in 1312 and bishop of Albano in 1321. This book is principally concerned with the eight disputed questions - De cognitione - which were written at Toulouse between 1297 and 1300; during the time of the great poverty controversy. A number of Vital du Four's works were historically and erroneously attributed to John Duns Scotus. Writing in the period between Bonaventure and Duns Scotus, Vital du Four reflects the influence of Bonaventure and, in turn, influenced Scotus. In Vital du Four, one finds a Franciscan who - even before Scotus - was powerfully affected by the philosophy of Henry of Ghent. He accentuated the primacy of intuition and the importance of the individual in his writings which had a profound affect upon the history of philosophy and theology when they were articulated in the writings of a next-generation philosopher and Franciscan, William of Ockham.

ISBN 1-57659-103-4
EAN 978-1-57659-103-1
216 pages
Tradepaper
1972

$14.95

Boehner begins this volume with a biography of Ockham and a bibliography of Ockham. These are followed by The Tractatus De Successivis. Published in 1943, this is the very first book published by The Franciscan Institute.

ISBN 1-57659-292-8
EAN 978-1-57659-292-2
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Theory of Demonstration According to William Ockham by Damascene Webering, OFM

The author studies one of the principal problems of scholastic logic: namely, the nature of demonstration as expounded by the eminent medieval logician William of Ockham.

ISBN 1-57659-099-2
EAN 978-1-57659-099-7
186 pages
Tradepaper
1953

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