Seminar in Medieval Philosophy
This course will study selected issues from ancient philosophy. Course intended for philosophy majors. Students should have completed five philosophy courses, including a course in medieval philosophy.
Outcomes: Students will develop a more advanced understanding of medieval philosophy, through direct student participation in an interactive seminar environment.
This course will study selected issues from ancient philosophy. Course intended for philosophy majors. Students should have completed five philosophy courses, including a course in medieval philosophy.
Outcomes: Students will develop a more advanced understanding of medieval philosophy, through direct student participation in an interactive seminar environment.
This course examines four seminal figures in medieval Latin philosophy: Augustine (354-430), Anselm (1033-1109), Abelard (1079-1142), and Aquinas (1225-1274). The overarching theme of the seminar is the relation of faith and reason, but we will also explore topics as diverse as God, eternity, time, evil, free will, universals, language, truth, and knowledge. Although our focus will be the philosophical work itself, we will contextualize that work by looking at the intellectual milieu and institutional context in which each of these thinkers wrote. In addition, we will attend to the relation of the medieval Latin philosophical tradition to other philosophical traditions: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Islamic.
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