{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"1282","_score":null,"_source":{"id":1282,"authors_free":[{"id":1871,"entry_id":1282,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":56,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"C\u00f4t\u00e9, Antoine","free_first_name":"Antoine","free_last_name":"C\u00f4t\u00e9","norm_person":{"id":56,"first_name":"Antoine","last_name":"C\u00f4t\u00e9","full_name":"C\u00f4t\u00e9, Antoine","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/137198221","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"Simplicius and James of Viterbo on Propensities","main_title":{"title":"Simplicius and James of Viterbo on Propensities"},"abstract":"The paper examines Simplicius's doctrine of propensities (epitedeioteis ) in his commen- \r\ntary on Aristotles Categories and follows its application by the late thirteenth century theologian and philosopher James of Viterbo to problems relating to the causes of \r\nvolition, intellection and natural change. Although he uses Aristotelian terminology and means his doctrine to conflict minimally with those of Aristode, James s doctrine of propensities really constitutes an attempt to provide a technically rigorous dressing to his Augustini\u00e1n and Boethian convictions. Central to Jamess procedure is his rejection, following Henry of Ghent, of the principle that \"everything that is moved is moved by another\". James uses Simplicius' doctrine of propensities as a means of extending the rejection of that principle, which Henry had limited to the case of the will, to cognitive operations and natural change. The result is a theory of cognition and volition that sees the soul as the principal cause of its own acts, and a theory of natural change that minimizes the causal impact of external agents. [Author's abstract]","btype":3,"date":"2009","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/3AhYdm0BGxI0RJo","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":56,"full_name":"C\u00f4t\u00e9, Antoine","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":1282,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Vivarium","volume":"47","issue":"1","pages":"24-53"}},"sort":["Simplicius and James of Viterbo on Propensities"]}