Reading William of Auvergne

This book aims to provide an interpretation of several aspects
of the philosophical system that William of Auvergne (1180-1249)
– bishop of the city of Paris and councilor of Louis IX – developed
in a cultural context wherein the Latin world had a special
interest in Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew sources. The author focuses
on issues relative to the causality of God and astrological causality,
fate and providence, miracles and mirabilia, the conception of
man as a nexus and as a divine image, the doctrine of beauty and
of music. All these combine in outlining the profile of a thinker
who stands as a milestone in the history of the critical tradition
of Aristotelianism until the eve of modernity.