Ethical Implications of a Metaphysical Structure: Peter Ceffons and John Ripa

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Chapter 8 Ethical Implications of a Metaphysical Structure

Peter Ceffons and John Ripa

于Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

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Page Range:: 191–309

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696495_009

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The Cistercian Peter Ceffons and the Franciscan John Ripa deal with a world of latitudes, intensities, degrees of being, and multiplicity, where every object or created being can be considered an expression of a precise intensity. Since intensity can infinitely grow or infinitely decrease, the two authors have consider several levels of infinity within the created domain. Ceffons’s approach features a unique analysis of the mathematical issue of the angle of contingency, from which he infers metaphysical consequences that range from the admission of an infinite growth within any created species, which does not result in approximating the perfection of the immediately superior species, to the admission of an infinite growth in individuals’ merit, without a concomitant growth in their metaphysical perfection. Ripa rejects Ceffons’s mathematical-metaphysical approach and constructs a highly original framework of stratified latitudes, where individuals of various species occupy specific positions. In doing so, he rebuts a too-easy infinitation of any individual within any species and simultaneously opposes Richard Kilvington’s endorsement of the infinite capacity of the human soul. In order to explain the beatific vision, which is a finite creature’s perception of the infinite being, Ripa distinguishes between three attitudes of the finite human soul: information, production, and vital modification. The las one enables a finite creature to enjoy (through a vital modification of its perceptiveness) the beatific fruition of the infinite being.

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Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

丛编： Investigating Medieval Philosophy, 卷： 22

ISBN:: 9789004696495

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 17 Jun 2023

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  - Medieval History
  - Intellectual History
- Philosophy
  - Medieval Philosophy
  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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