Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Towards a Balanced Historiography of Medieval Philosophy	1
Sect. 1	Historical Context
1	Medieval Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition	21
Sect. 2	Philosophy
2	A Philosophical Odyssey: Ghazzali's Intentions of the Philosophers	37
3	The Relationship between Averroes and al-Ghazali: as it presents itself in Averroes' Early Writings, especially in his Commentary on al-Ghazali's al-Mustasfa	51
4	Al-Ghazali and Halevi on Philosophy and the Philosophers	64
Sect. 3	Neoplatonism
5	Projection and Time in Proclus	83
6	Forms of Knowledge in the Arabic Plotinus	106
7	Secundum rei vim vel secundum cognoscentium facultatem: Knower and Known in the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius and the Proslogion of Anselm	126
8	Proclean 'Remaining' and Avicenna on Existence as Accident: Neoplatonic Methodology and a Defense of 'Pre-Existing' Essences	151
9	Augustine vs Plotinus: The Uniqueness of the Vision at Ostia	169
Sect. 4	Creation
10	Infinite Power and Plenitude: Two Traditions on the Necessity of the Eternal	183
11	The Challenge to Medieval Christian Philosophy: Relating Creator to Creatures	202
Sect. 5	Virtue
12	Three Kinds of Objectivity	217
13	On Defining Maimonides' Aristotelianism	231
14	Porphyry, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas: A Neoplatonic Hierarchy of Virtues and Two Christian Appropriations	245
Sect. 6	The Latin Reception
15	William of Auvergne and the Aristotelians: The Nature of a Servant	263
16	Is God a "What"? Avicenna, William of Auvergne, and Aquinas on the Divine Essence	277
17	Maimonides and Roger Bacon: Did Roger Bacon Read Maimonides?	297
	Index	310