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[NB.: THIS IS NOT AN ERASMUS COURSE!]
FALL TERM 2024 BA Module, Profilující seminář Tuesday, 14:10-15:45, room 217 e-mail me for consultation or questions: anna.tropia@ff.cuni.cz (The course will be taught in English) To the question “how do we cognize things?”, medieval thinkers replied in very different and sophisticated ways. In a broad landscape, in which late-ancient views (e.g. the skeptics', and Augustine’s reaction to them) also find their place, we will focus on those accounts of cognition that best exemplify certain philosophical tendencies, such as representationalism, illuminationism, direct cognition, and nominalism. These labels will be unpacked and discussed in class through the direct confrontation with a selection of texts by Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, Peter Olivi, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. Poslední úprava: Tropia Anna, Ph.D. (19.09.2024)
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The aim of this course is to provide BA students with the necessary, basic tools to read and understand epistemological medieval texts.
Poslední úprava: Tropia Anna, Ph.D. (19.09.2024)
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Regular attendance and in-class active participation (regular reading of the texts discussed) will be mandatory. Poslední úprava: Tropia Anna, Ph.D. (19.09.2024)
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(a selection: all the texts on Moodle)
We will use the anthology of texts in translation edited by R. Pasnau, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, volume three. Mind and Knowledge. Cambridge University Press 2002
Other translations: for Aquinas’ Summa theologiae, I deem the best to be Alfred J. Freddoso’s, which is fully available online (https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm) and (only the first part) online as well. For those who read French : Henri de Gand, Sur la possibilité de la connaissance humaine. Texts latins introduits, traduits et annotés par Dominique Demange, Vrin 2013 (in our library) Poslední úprava: Tropia Anna, Ph.D. (19.09.2024)
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Final oral exam (more info to be provided in due time) or essay (to discuss with the teacher during the term). Poslední úprava: Tropia Anna, Ph.D. (19.09.2024)
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