Quaestiones de divinis praedicamentis XXVIII-XXXII

Critical edition of James of Viterbo’s final questions De divinis praedicamentis and his De potentia et actu volendi

James of Viterbo (ca. 1255–1307), Augustinian friar, master of theology at the University of Paris, and archbishop of Naples, was one of the leading philosophers and theologians of the late thirteenth century. This volume completes the critical edition of his academic works and presents his last two questions De divinis praedicamentis and his three annexed questions on the will (De potentia et actu volendi). These questions, deriving from disputations James held as Augustinian regent master of theology at the University of Paris (1293–1297), offer rich discussions of important topics: whether the plurality of divine persons and attributes entails an order of priority within God and how causality may be attributed to God. The questions on the will cover issues at the core of late medieval debates on human freedom: on the unity of the will as a power of the soul, whether the will is the primary agent in human action, and whether the will is free with respect to all its acts.

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Preface

General Introduction (Chris Schabel)
The Life of James of Viterbo
The Date and Genre of the Questions De divinis praedicamentis
The Manuscripts
Differing Sequences of Questions
The Manuscript Tradition According to Ypma
Questions 28-29: The Last of the Original Questions De divinis praedicamentis
Questions 30-32: James of Viterbo’s Quaestiones de potentia et actu volendi

Doctrinal Introduction (Mark D. Gossiaux)
The Nature and Purpose of the Quaestiones de divinis praedicamentis
Question 28
Question 29
The Quaestiones de potentia et actu volendi
Question 30
Question 31
Question 32
Concluding Remarks

Technique of the edition

Quaestiones de divinis praedicamentis
Quaestio 28: Utrum in Deo sit prius et posterius secundum aliquem modum
Quaestio 29: Utrum causa dicatur de Deo secundum omnes eius species et modos
Quaestiones de potentia et actu volendi I-III
Quaestio 30 (1): Utrum potentia volendi dicatur tantum una res absoluta
Quaestio 31 (2): Utrum ad actum volendi voluntatis principalius operetur potentia ipsa quae est voluntas quam obiectum vel e converso
Quaestio 32 (3): Utrum voluntas sit libera respectu cuiuslibet sui actus

Bibliography
Abbreviations
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature

Indices
I. Index codicum
II. Index auctorum
III. Index nominum

James of Viterbo

Mark D. Gossiaux

Mark D. Gossiaux is professor of philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans (USA). Specializing in medieval philosophy and classical metaphysics, he is a leading authority on James of Viterbo.

Christopher D. Schabel

Christopher D. Schabel is a researcher at the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes of the CNRS, in Aubervilliers, France. He works on medieval intellectual history and the Latin East.