Metaphysical Themes. Aquinas on Essences and Being - AFS100790

• Title: Metaphysical Themes. Aquinas on Essences and Being
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15266
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Anna Tropia, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Anna Tropia, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (27.09.2023)

FALL TERM 2023
BA module: "MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY B", Středověká Filosofie B (THIS IS NOT AN ERASMUS COURSE)
Wednesday, 14:00-15:45 (in English)
e-mail me for consultation or questions: [e-mail]

Why does Stanislaous Demba have an essence but no existence, and what is the essence of my friend Serena? In what (if it does) does the latter differ from mine? These rough bunch of questions are only rough examples of the different articulations of the relation between different beings and their own essence (let us leave for the moment what an essence is). The tract On being and essence (1252-1256) by Thomas Aquinas will provide us with the main textual material to answer such and many other questions. Connections with other texts by Aquinas will be made, in particular for what concerns the specific case of the human soul and the exceptional being of God.

Literature

Last update: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

[All the materials read in class are on Moodle]

 

De ente et essentia: you can read it in Czech in the translation by Stanislav Sousedik, but we will mainly work with the English translation by Armand Maurer

 

St. Thomas Aquinas, On being and essence, Pontifical Institute 1968

 

Also useful, for each part of the text is provided with a commentary:

 

St. Thomas Aquinas, On being and essence, translation and interpretation by J. Bobik, University of Notre Dame Press 1965

 

 

We are also going to use:

 

R. Pasnau- C. Shields, The philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, Oxford University Press 2004, in particular (on metaphysics) pp. 62-98; (on God) 140-148; (the human soul) 190-230

 

K. Kutařnová, Člověk jak tělo a duše. STh I, q. 75-75, překlad, úvodní studie a poznámky. Krystal 2017

Always essential, and beautiful to read:

J. W. Wippel, The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic University of America, 2000

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Anna Tropia, Ph.D. (12.09.2023)

Students will be evaluated upon the following parameters:

 

1)    Regular attendance, reading of the texts and in-class active participation are mandatory.

2)    In-class presentation (topic and modality to be discussed with the teacher) or oral exam.