A Companion To Albert The Great -

: Essays highlight Albert's insistence on testing authoritative claims against personal experience , particularly in botany and zoology.

: Irven M. Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). A Companion to Albert the Great

: The text emphasizes Albert's view of man as a "nexus" between the physical and divine worlds, facilitated by the intellect. A Companion to Albert the Great

: Albert was the first scholastic to comment on all of Aristotle’s works, and the book explores how he distinguished Aristotle’s thought from later Arabic commentaries. A Companion to Albert the Great

: Contributors examine the tension and synthesis between Augustinian theology and Aristotelian reason. Bibliographic Information