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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Mediaeval Philosophy B - AFS200011
Title: Středověká filosofie B
Form of teaching: seminar
Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Anna Tropia, Ph.D.
MA Nicoletta Nativo
Teacher(s): MA Nicoletta Nativo
Annotation -

The subject “Medieval Philosophy B” is a complementary course to the subject “Medieval Philosophy A”, it is
closely linked with it in terms of content and students complete both parts simultaneously (in the same semester).
It is focused on intensive analysis of primary texts.

Last update: Král Matěj, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.06.2026)
Literature -

The course will focus on Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.

Readings:

Thomas Aquinas

De ente et essentia (DEE), ch. 1-4 (Engl. transl. by Peter King) [General Metaphysics]

Summa theologiae (ST), Ia, q. 3, a. 4 (Engl. transl. by A.J. Freddoso) [On God]

Summa theologiae, Ia q. 75 a. 4 (Engl. transl. by A.J. Freddoso / R. Pasnau) [On Human Soul and Intellect]

 

John Duns Scotus

 “Concerning Metaphysics”, from Id., Philosophical Writing, ed. A. B. Wolter, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge 1987, pp. 1-12 (= a short anthology from the Quaestiones subtilissimae in metaphysicam Aristotelis, prol., n. 5; Ordinatio I d. 8 q. 3; Ord. I d. 3 q. 3; Ord. I d. 39, q. 1)

Passages from John Duns Scotus, On Being and Cognition. Ordinatio I.3, ed. J. Van Der Bercken, Fordham University Press 2016

 

 William of Ockham

Summa logicae I,1–4; I, 63-65; I, 67–71, from Id., Ockham’s Theory of Terms. Part I of the Summa logicae, tr. by Michael J. Loux, University of Notre-Dame 1974

 

Further recommended readings and working tools are available on Moodle. 

Teaching methods

• Students are expected to have read the material before the class

• The teacher will lecture each class and lead discussion

 Each class will be focused on close analysis and discussion of the texts

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Last update: Němec Václav, doc., Ph.D. (01.09.2026)
Syllabus - Czech

Témata kursu a základní texty:

1. Augustin: stvoření světa, čas a věčnost (Vyznání XI)

2. Dionysios Areopagita: způsoby vypovídání o nevýslovném: afirmativní, negativní a mystická theologie (Mystická theologie)

3. Anselm z Canterbury: důkazy Boží existence (Proslogion)

4. Avicenna: esence uvažovaná absolutně (Metafyzika al-Šifá V)

5. Mikuláš Kusánský: Bůh jako absolutní maximum; universum jako kontrahované maximum; nekonečnost světa.

(O učené nevědomosti II)

Last update: Němec Václav, doc., Ph.D. (01.09.2026)
 
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