Giraldus Odonis O.F.M.: Opera Philosophica: Vol. I. Logica. Critical Edition from the Manuscripts

This volume contains the first critical edition of the Logica by Giraldus Odonis, a 14th-century anti-occamist Franciscan master, who was minister-general of the order (1329-42) and died of the plague in 1349, as patriarch of Antioch. He is mainly known as the author of a commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics (Venice 1500), and is regarded by medievalists as one of the most original and most courageous philosophers of the 14th century. The three parts of the work demonstrate Giraldus’ original approach to common logical and metaphysical doctrines, and the relationship between logico-semantics and metaphysics. The third tract, on demonstrative argument, is considered of singular importance.