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SOURCE: Ryan, Christopher J. “Man's Free Will in the Works of Siger of Brabant.” Mediaeval Studies 45 (1983): 155-99.
In the following essay, Ryan examines Siger's position on free will and discusses the inadequacies of earlier critical analyses.
The recent monograph1 by Fernand Van Steenberghen, the doyen of Sigerian studies, bids fair to remain for some time the standard work on the medieval philosopher and the starting point for any research on his medieval compatriot. Van Steenberghen remarks in introducing his relatively slight section on will and the moral life: ‘Les problèmes relatifs à la nature de l'âme intellective et de l'activité intellectuelle dominent l'anthropologie de Siger de Brabant et ont absorbé presque toute son attention en ce domaine de la philosophie. Cependant il n'a pas négligé complètement le problème du vouloir et celui de la vie morale, qui s'y rattache’ (p. 383, Van Steenberghen's italics). Granted...
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