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The Foundations of Ethics in Western Medieval Thought

Research Project

Project/Area Number 62450006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 倫理学
Research InstitutionSophia University

Principal Investigator

OOTANI Keiji  Sophia University, Faculty of Literature, 文学部, 教授 (30053557)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SUZUKI Nobuaki  Sophia University, Faculty of Literature, 文学部, 教授 (30053531)
SILONIS R.Lopez  Sophia University, Faculty of Literature, 文学部, 教授 (60053500)
PEREZ Francisco  Sophia University, Faculty of Literature, 文学部, 教授 (30053466)
RIESENHUBER Klaus  Sophia University, Institute of Medieval Thought, 中世思想研究所, 教授 (60053633)
HASHIGUCHI Tomosuke  Sophia University, Faculty of Literature, 文学部, 教授 (80053453)
渡部 菊郎  上智大学, 文学部, 講師 (30191810)
門脇 佳吉  上智大学, 文学部, 教授 (30053490)
Project Period (FY) 1987 – 1988
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1988)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Keywordsgood / happiness / law / choice / free will / person / 人格 / 自然本性 / 自由意思 / 目的 / 悪 / 魂 / 救済論 / 志向性
Research Abstract

The aim of this research project has been to trace the lines of development of the foundations of ethics, from the tradition of christian thought in late antiquity, through monastic theology and early scholasticism, emphasizing, then, high scholasticism, and concluding with the late middle ages; further, to analyze the structures of the various types of these ethical conceptions, and, finally, to clarify their sources as well as their roots in the mentality of their times. According to a research plan which combined individual and group research, the project concentrated on the important thinkers of the middle ages and investigated the central features and fundamental concepts of their various conceptions of ethics, tracing them back to their anthropological and ontological presuppositions, and, thus, succeeded to show tha fundamental unity of theoretical and practical philosophy in the middle ages.
Under systematical aspects, the problems of the relation between goodness in general and … More human goodness, personal fulfillment and the common good of society, man's nature and moral law, man's happiness and his religious destiny, the objective norms of ethics and the ways of knowing them, the structure of the ethical object and the essence of free choice, justice and love as the fundamental ethical values etc. constitute a common horizon of the ethical thought of the middle ages, but in the ways of their solution and interrelation, the following widely differing types of their faundations of ethics have been discerned: 1. the immanent and formalistic ethics of Anselm of Canterbury, starting from an analysis of free will, 2. the existential approach of Peter Abelard, based on divine law, 3. the interpersonal ethics of Bernhard of Clairvaux, stressing the function of grace, and the conception of ethics in the framework of a theory of love of friendship in Aelred or Rievaulx, 4. the neoplatonic, contemplative conception of ethics as the way to spiritual perfection, in the school of St-Victor, 5. the christocentric ethical system, as developed by Bonaventure, 6. the foundation of ethics as a science in Thomas Aquinas, resting on the integration of Aristotle's ethics with theological anthropology, 7. the conception of fundamental ethics as an independent practical science, as it can be seen in Duns Scotus, 8. the intellectualist, ontological exploration of ethical problems in Meister Eckhart, 9. the attempt of restructuring the foundations of ethics on the basis of a voluntarist, theocentric nominalism, in William Occam. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1988 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1987 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All Other

All Publications (22 results)

  • [Publications] K.リーゼンフーバー: 文化会議. 通巻219号. 22-29 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 橋口倫介: 上智史学. 33号. 181-187 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] R.L.シロニス: 上智大学哲学科紀要. 14号. 1-18 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] J.フィルハウス: カトリック研究. 53号. 1-23 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 渡部菊郎: ライフサイクルと人間の意識. 210-220 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] F・ペレス: Pensamiento. Vol.43. 129-150 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] K.リーゼンフーバー: "中世における自由と超越" 創文社, 591 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Riesenhuber, Klaus: "The dignity of man and the concept of a person" Bunka Kaigi ('Culture Conference'). no. 219. 22-29 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hashiguchi, Tomosuke: "The Mediterranean World and the Crusades - an East-West exchange history of mentalities" Jochi Shigaku ('Sophia Historical Studies'). 33. 181-187 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Silonis, Rafael Lo^^'pez: "The 'self-diffusion of the Good' in Pseudo-Dionysios and Scotus Eriugena" Tetsugakka Kiyo ('Philosophical Studies', Sophia University). 14. 1-18 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Vierhaus, Josef: "The Conversion of the Rus of Kiev to Christianity - on the occasion of the millenium of St. Vladimir's baptism" Katorikku Kenkyu (' Catholic Studies'). 53. 1-23 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Watabe, Kikuo: "The Problem of the 'Individual' in Thomas Aquinas" Life-cycle and the Consciousness of Man. 210-220 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Riesenhuber, Klaus: Freedom and Transcendence in the Middle Ages. Sobunsha, 591 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] P.ネメシェギ: エイコーン. 1. 7-12 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 橋口倫介: ソフィア. 36巻4号. 3-17 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] F.ペレス: カトリック研究. 53. 73-97 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] R.L.シロニス: 中世の人間像. 29-47 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大谷啓治: 中世の人間像. 49-69 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] K.リーゼンフーバ: 中世の人間像. 71-109 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 渡部菊郎: 中世の人間像. 139-163 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] J.フィルハウス: 中世の人間像. 183-205 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] K.ソーゼンフーバー: 文化会議. 219. 22-29 (1987)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report

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