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Medieval but not Christian

• arclein

In 1989, Cambridge University Press announced the publication of a new, three-volume book series: The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts. The first volume - edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, and dedicated to logic and the philosophy of language - contained 15 medieval texts, of which 15 were composed by Christian authors. The second volume in the series, this time focusing on ethics and political philosophy, appeared in 2000. Seventeen of the 17 texts included in this collection - edited by Arthur S McGrade, John Kilcullen and Matthew Kempshall - were authored by Christian writers. Late-medieval Jewish or Islamic texts on ethics or politics? Not in our school. The third volume of the series, this one dedicated to mind and knowledge, and edited by Robert Pasnau, appeared in 2002. It contained 12 texts, of which 12 were Christian. No Islamic or Jewish sources made the cut.


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