Revolving around the theme of the relation between creature and creator, this course will target medieval philosophical texts that are considered as the most representative of the Middle Ages. From Augustine to Anselm, passing through the major works of Aquinas and Scotus, we will examine the solutions of these philosophers to spell out, on the one hand, how human beings depend on God and, on the other, what is properly and entirely human. The course will be structured into two modules: the first one (corresponding to the first hour of the course) will consist in a frontal lesson by the teacher and the second, in the general discussion of a text presented by one or two students. The second module will be a fundamental part of the course, for it will provide the occasion to clarify texts that are part of the final exam as well as to help students out with the preparation of the written paper.
Předmět je vyučován v angličtině.
Poslední úprava: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
Literatura - angličtina
Augustine, texts from On the Christian doctrine. Ed. And Transl. by R. H. P. Green, Clarendon 1996.
Moses Maimonides, texts from The Guide of the Perplexed. Transl. by S. Pines, The University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Anselm of Canterbury, texts from Proslogion, Engl. Transl. in Readings in Medieval Philosophy, by A. Schrodinger, Oxford Classics 1998 (also at UFAR library)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (ST):
Latin text: Vatican 1889–. (UFAR library, but also accessible online: corpusthomisticum.org)
English Text: full text translated by A. Freddoso (accessible online: https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm)
“The treatise on human nature: ST Ia 75-102” by A. Freddoso, South Bend 2010 (UFAR library. Also accessible online, at Freddoso’s webpage above indicated)
Avicenna, texts from The Cure, ed. and transl. by McGinnis-Reismann, Classic Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company 2007.
Siger of Brabant, On the intellective soul, in G. Klyma (ed), Medieval Philosophy. Essential Readings. Blackwell Publishing 2007.
Bonaventure, “Christ our one teacher”, Engl. tr. by R. Pasnau, in The Cambridge Translation of Medieval Philosophical Text. Cambridge University Press 2002.
John Duns Scotus, texts from the Ordinatio
Latin text: Vatican 1950 –.
Engl. tr.:
Being and Cognition, Transl. by J. Van Der Bercken, Fordham University Press 2016 (UFAR library)
William of Ockham. Texts from the Ordinatio:
Latin text: Opera theologica et philosophica, St. Bonaventure (NY) 1967 –. (UFAR library)
Eng. Tr.: Philosophical Writings, ed. by Ph. Boehner, NY 1964
5.2. Secondary Literature
Bibliography and essential readings are indicated in the “Medieval Skelet Program” (webpage: http://ufar.ff.cuni.cz/5/stredoveka-filosofie-ii).
Here a sample-list of some texts, connected to this specific course (more is to be found on the Moodle):
Philosophy in the Middle Ages. The Christian, Islamic and Jewish Tradition. Ed. by A. Hyman et al., Hackett Publishing Company, 2010 (3rd edition).
R. Pasnau (ed), The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge 2009-2010 (ch. on Anselm for instance).
R. Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature, Cambridge 2002.
G. Pini, “Scotus on Intuitive and Abstractive Intuition”, In J. P. Hause (ed.), Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses. London 2014, 348-365.
Th. Cory, Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge. Cambridge 2014.
Poslední úprava: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (21.11.2023)
