A Normative Power in the Making: Theological Quodlibeta and the Authority of the Masters at Paris at the end of the Thirteenth Century

Marmursztejn, Elsa

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“…Their role was to expound truth, defend the faith, and teach less exalted clerics how to preach, teach, and save souls. 7 Quodlibetal questions about usurious money thus reveal the advice that was passed from Parisian masters to churchmen who were seeking to save souls in a society increasingly dependent on money, and they at least suggest the kind of advice that was actually given to both laity and clergy.…”

Section: Quodlibets Ian P Weimentioning

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Discovering the Moral Value of Money: Usurious Money and Medieval Academic Discourse in Parisian Quodlibets

Wei¹

2012

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Section: Quodlibets Ian P Weimentioning

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Discovering the Moral Value of Money: Usurious Money and Medieval Academic Discourse in Parisian Quodlibets

Wei¹

2012

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Old Wine in New Wineskins: William Ockham and the Common Good in Context

Lambertini

2024

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The present chapter investigates the use of the expression bonum commune in two political works by William of Ockham: the third part of the Dialogus and the Octo quaestiones de potestate papae. The choice of these works is motivated by the fact that they represent the final – and most mature – phase of the English Franciscan’s political reflection. Relying on the findings of previous scholarship, the author believes it is appropriate to focus on the use of the expression rather than on a determination of its meaning, which seems to be taken for granted by Ockham. The contribution highlights three main uses of the expression: (1) as a criterion for distinguishing, along the lines of Aristotle’s Politics, between upright and deviant constitutional forms; (2) as a limit to the exercise of power by a legitimate power; and (3) as “a conceptual device” that aims to relativise the conclusions of political theory (e.g., the identification of the best constitutional form), motivated by Ockham’s awareness of the intrinsic contingency and mutability of historical events. Indeed, safeguarding the common good in certain situations, according to the English Franciscan, may require a solution that deviates from the ideal paradigm. In the course of the analysis, it appears that Ockham, despite his reputation as an individualist philosopher, consistently applies the principle of the subordination of the individual good to the common good.

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Disciplinamento sociale e teologia nei Quodlibeta di Pietro de Trabibus

Tabarroni

2020

The Dominicans and the Making of Florentine Cultural Identity (13th-14th Centuries) / I Domenicani E La Costruzione Dell'identi

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This article analyzes some questiones quodlibetales (1296-1297) delivered by Peter of Trabibus, a Florentine Franciscan of Santa Croce. He reflects on and attempts to regulate Florentine society in times of unprecedented political and economic dynamism. Dealing with the definition of “new” sins, these questions examine tantalizing cases pertaining to economic life outside the convent, and which thus constitute matters of great juridical and political interest. The critical edition of Petrus of Trabibus’ questions 17 to 22, Quodlibet 2, here published for the first time, completes this contribution.

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A Normative Power in the Making: Theological Quodlibeta and the Authority of the Masters at Paris at the end of the Thirteenth Century

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Discovering the Moral Value of Money: Usurious Money and Medieval Academic Discourse in Parisian Quodlibets

Discovering the Moral Value of Money: Usurious Money and Medieval Academic Discourse in Parisian Quodlibets

Old Wine in New Wineskins: William Ockham and the Common Good in Context

Disciplinamento sociale e teologia nei Quodlibeta di Pietro de Trabibus

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