The Soul-Body Problem at Paris, ca. 1200-1250. Hugh of St-Cher and His Contemporaries

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by  Magadalena Bieniak

THE SOUL-BODY PROBLEM AT PARIS, CA. 1200-1250
HUGH OF ST-CHER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
DE WULF-MANSION CENTRE
Series I
XLII
Series editors
Gerd Van Riel
Russell L. Friedman
Carlos Steel
Advisory Board
Brad Inwood, University of Toronto, Canada
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone, The Catholic University of America, USA
Jan Opsomer, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Geert Roskam, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
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the “Opera omnia” of Henry of Ghent and the “Opera Philosophica et Theologica” of
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The Soul-Body ProBlem aT PariS,
ca. 1200-1250
Hugh of St-Cher and His Contemporaries
Magdalena Bieniak
leuven univeRSiTY PReSS
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To the memory of Paolo Sambin

Table of ConTenTs
aCknowledgemenTs XI
introduction 1
ParT one
Towards The UnITy of The hUman beIng 7
1.1 Accidental union of the soul with the body
and unibilitas substantialis of the human soul 9
1.1.1 The accidental union of the soul with the body 10
1.1.1.1 Avicenna and early Avicennianism 10
1.1.1.2 Philip the Chancellor’s Summa de bono 15
1.1.2 The unibilitas substantialis of the human soul: Hugh of St-
Cher and his contemporaries 19
1.1.2.1 William of Auxerre 19
1.1.2.2 Hugh of St-Cher’s question De anima 24
1.1.2.3 Roland of Cremona 28
1.1.2.4 William of Auvergne 31
1.1.3 Unibilitas substantialis after Hugh of St-Cher 35
1.1.3.1 John of La Rochelle 35
1.1.3.2 Albert the Great 37
1.1.3.3 Bonaventure 38
1.1.3.4 Thomas Aquinas 40
1.2 The human soul and the concept of person 47
1.2.1 “The human soul is not a person”. The Sentences Commen-
tary of Hugh of St-Cher 47
1.2.2 Evolution of expressions 48
1.2.2.1 Gilbert of Poitiers 49
1.2.2.2 Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers and Simon of Tournai 50
1.2.2.3 Alan of Lille 52
1.2.2.4 Stephen Langton 53
1.2.2.5 William of Auxerre 54
1.2.2.6 Hugh of St-Cher 55
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1.2.3 “The separated soul is not a person”. Controversies and
misunderstandings 58
1.2.3.1 From the question of universals to the individuality
of the soul: Gilbert of Poitiers 58
1.2.3.2 Simon of Tournai 68
1.2.3.3 From logic to psychology: Alan of Lille 69
1.2.3.4 Stephen Langton 74
1.2.3.5 William of Auxerre 80
1.2.3.6 Hugh of St-Cher 82
1.2.3.7 Alexander of Hales 83
1.2.3.8 Philip the Chancellor 84
1.2.3.9 From the Summa Halesiana to Thomas Aquinas’s
Scriptum in Sententias 86
ParT Two
beTween soUl and body: The Powers of The soUl 91
Introduction 93
2.1 The Rational Powers: the Soul as Image of the Trinity 95
2.1.1 Two Traditions, Two Types of Powers 95
2.1.2 The identity of the soul with its powers 98
2.1.2.1 The Augustinian and Pseudo-Augustinian heritage 98
2.1.2.2 William of Auxerre 100
2.1.2.3 Hugh of St-Cher 102
2.1.2.4 An anonymous question (ms. Douai 434, n. 115) 106
2.1.2.5 Philip the Chancellor and Alexander of Hales 107
2.1.2.6 Peter of Bar 112
2.2 The Sensitive and Vegetative Powers 119
2.2.1 The Union per medium 119
2.2.1.1 Philip the Chancellor 119
2.2.1.2 Sources of the doctrine of intermediaries 124
2.2.1.3 Hugh of St-Cher 130
2.2.2 The Survival of the Sensitive and Vegetative Powers 137
2.2.2.1 Hugh of St-Cher 137
2.2.2.2 Avicenna and Dominicus Gundissalinus 140
2.2.2.3 Quaestiones antequam esset frater 143
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2.2.2.4 Peter of Bar 144
2.2.2.5 William of Auvergne 147
2.3 The Problem of Memory 151
2.3.1 Two traditions, two types of memory 151
2.3.2 Philip the Chancellor 155
2.3.3 The Summa Duacensis 159
2.3.4 The disputed questions of Peter of Bar 160
2.3.5 The Gloss of Alexander of Hales 163
2.3.6 John of La Rochelle 165
2.3.7 William of Auvergne’s De anima: memory, the immortality
of the soul and the resurrection 167
ConClUsIon 171
aPPendIX: TeXT edITIons 177
Introduction 179
(A) The disputed questions (Douai 434) 179
(B) Hugh of St-Cher’s Sentences Commentary (i, 3) 180
(C) Abbreviations 182
Texts 183
(A) Hugo de Sancto Caro <Quomodo anima uniatur corpori> 183
(B) Hugo de Sancto Caro <In I Sententiarum distinctio tertia> 187
(C) <Anonimi De trinitate anime> 200
(D) Anonimi Si anima est sue potentie 204
(E) Petrus de Barro De hiis que ex parte anime manebunt 206
(F) Anonimi <De humana natura> 210
bIblIograPhy 215
(A) Journals and Series 217
(B) Manuscripts 217