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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)
BA module+Erasmus e-mail me for consultation or questions: anna.tropia@ff.cuni.cz What is a human person? What are her distinctive features, and what are not? Thinking and, more generally, what pertains to the sphere of intellection is usually considered as the distinctive mark of humanity. But what about the body? Are human beings determined by their material bodies and features or not? Revolving around the most famous definition of the human soul as the “form of the body”, in this course we will target the make-up of a human being (and of a human person) in the tract that Thomas Aquinas devotes to human nature in the Sum of Theology. |
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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)
The principal aim of the course is that of providing the students with an introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential medieval thinkers. |
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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)
In Class Active Participation. |
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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (12.09.2021)
Primary Literature
Thomas Aquinas, Selection of quaestiones from Sum of Theology (Part I) and from Summa contra gentiles (Part II) Latin text (for the Summa): Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera omnia iussu Leonis XIII P. M. Edita, Romae, 1889-, vols. V and 13. Both are accessible at the UFAR library as well as online: https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/repedleo.html English Translation by Alfred Freddoso available online: https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC-part1.htm Another English Translation (provided by the teacher) is Thomas Aquinas. The Treatise on Human Nature, Translated, with Introduction and Commentary, by Robert Pasnau. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2002 Thomas Aquinas, Selection of quaestiones from Summa contra gentiles, Part II English Translation by James Anderson available online: https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles2.htm
Secondary literature (a selection: all on Moodle) B. Bazán, “The Human Soul: Form and Substance? Thomas Aquinas’ Critique of Eclectic Aristotelianism”, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age 64 (1997), 95-126. R. Pasnau-Ch. Shields, The philosophy of Aquinas. Oxford University Press, 2016. R. Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae Ia 75-89. Cambridge University Press, 2002. E. Stump, Aquinas, Routledge 2003. |
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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)
Active in-class participation and final oral exam. |
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Poslední úprava: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (11.09.2021)
Introduction: What is a human being? What is a person?
Module I: Soul as substance
Module II: The powers of the soul
Module III: Cognition as experience
Module IV: Challenging I. Comparisons and difficulties |