The Reception and Use of the Ancient Authors in the Medieval Thought - AGLV00052

• Anglický název: The Reception and Use of the Ancient Authors in the Medieval Thought
• Zajišťuje: Ústav řeckých a latinských studií (21-URLS)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2020
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:1/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět lze zapsat opakovaně; předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; student může plnit i v dalších letech
• Garant: Luciano Micali, Ph.D.
• Třída: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura; A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Filosofie, náboženství; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature; Exchange - 09.4 Translation, Interpretation; Exchange - 09.5 Classical Philology

Anotace

Poslední úprava: Luciano Micali, Ph.D. (24.01.2020)

Through the mediation of the Arabic culture, many new texts of the ancient Greek philosophers reached Europe in the XII century and changed forever the Western culture. Read and used in their Latin translations, these works (in particular an important amount of new Aristotelian texts) were used in the medieval intellectual speculation, serving as logical foundations or philosophical authorities to be constantly quoted, in order to support or contrast philosophical or theological argumentations. In the course, we will analyze some of the most important strategies that the medieval thinkers adopted for absorbing and using these ancient texts. We will also see how these texts were transmitted or were the object of anthologies (florilegia). Attention will also be given to the study of how
Christian medie-val thinkers often “forced” the texts of Plato and Aristotle with tendentious translations and interpretations, in order to make them more acceptable and nearer to the Christian dogmas. The course is meant as interdisciplinary and is open to all those who are interested in the medieval culture, in particular philosophers, philologists, historians, theologians and experts of cultural studies.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Luciano Micali, Ph.D. (20.01.2020)

Regular and active attendance. Preparation of the primary and secondary literature before each lesson. Final oral exam of ca. 20 minutes (dates of the sessions to be defined).

Literatura

Poslední úprava: Eva Zezulková (17.12.2019)

The primary sources will be read in the English translations, with some references to the original Latin and Greek texts. Course materials (primary and secondary literature) will be provided in PDF format by the teacher. Language of the course: English.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Luciano Micali, Ph.D. (06.02.2020)

General part 

18.02.Introduction to the course and general informations about requirements and exams. Historical introduction to the theme

25.02. Notions about the medieval Scholastic Philosophy and the literary genres of the medieval University. Examples of summae, commentaria and tractatus from medieval authors.

03.03. The concept of auctoritas and its use in the medieval Scholasticism.

 

Reception of Aristotle

10.03. Latin Medieval translations of Aristotle’s works. Reading of examples

17.03. The Auctoritates Aristotelis: history and structure of a fundamental medieval florilegium. Reading of the introduction.

24.03. Reading of other passages from the Auctoritates Aristotelis, in particular belonging to Metaphysica and De anima

31.03. Medieval commentaries of Aristotle’s works. Reading of examples from Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure 

07.04. Aristotle as a philosophical support to theology. The use of Aristotle’s categories in the treatises of Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460). Reading of selected passages from Heymericus’ Millelogicon.

 

Reception of Plato

14.04. Medieval platonism: an overview

21.04. Timaeus and its medieval reception. 

28.04. Jean Gerson and his criticism to Plato and the Platonici. Reading of selected passages 

 

Reception of Augustine

05.05. Confessiones 

12.05. De doctrina christiana in the scholastic thought