Publisher's Synopsis
This is intended as an introduction to the views of the major Western thinkers from Plato to Ockham, revealing the essential connection between the Medieval Schools and the Greek philosophers, as mediated by the Neoplatonists, St Augustine, and Jewish and Islamic thought.;The work has been substantially updated since the first edition in 1962, and the editors have contributed a substantial introduction explaining how today's historians see the topics discussed by the author. Accordingly, they have enlarged upon areas, such as the developments of the 14th century, that have come to be regarded as more important than they were when Knowles was writing.
