Am I my body? Medieval and Modern Perspectives - AFS500268

• Title: Am I my body? Medieval and Modern Perspectives
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=12217
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Anna Tropia, Ph.D.

Annotation

FALL TERM 2021
MA Module
Should you have any questions, send me an email: [e-mail]

How much do our bodies determine our personal identity? Far from tracing a sharp line amongst materialists and spiritualists, medieval and Renaissance thinkers had to come to grips with compromises and leave the door open to the following conclusion: bodies do play a great part in determining who we are. This course, that is offered to MA students, will take place in the form of a reading seminar.

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)

Aim of the course

The course will provide students with the opportunity to improve their capacity of organizing a short seminar/presentation of a text. 

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)

Literature

Literature

 

[All texts will be provided in English Translation on Moodle]

 

Aristotle, On the Soul

 

Thomas Aquinas, Sum of Theology

 

John Duns Scotus, passages from Ordinatio

 

William of Ockham, passages from Scriptum super I Sent.

 

Michel de Montaigne, Essais

 

Francisco Suárez, On the Soul. Disp. IV, q. 2

 

René Descartes, The Passions of the Soul

 

Elisabeth to Descartes, letters of 1643

 

Anne Conway, Letter to Henry More (1651)

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)

Requirements to the exam

In Class Active Participation, Seminar/Oral Final Exam.

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)

Syllabus

1)    Introduction

2)    Aristotle, the soul’s powers 

3)    Thomas Aquinas on the human soul

4)    Thomas Aquinas on the (cognitive) dependence on the body

5)    Discussing Aquinas. Scotus and Ockham

6)    Some Renaissance views. Sympathy 

7)    Montaigne, on the force of imagination

8)    Descartes: the spectator

9)    Descartes on perceptions – Conway on perceptions

10) Elisabeth the materialist: I am a body

11) Class to be determined/recapitulation

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)

Entry requirements

MA Module! Please contact me in advance if you want to participate in the seminar

Last update: Tropia Anna, doc., Ph.D. (12.09.2021)