PHILOSOPHIES OF NATURE AND LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Be aware of the link between society, philosophical ideas and practices in the Middle Ages through the deepening of conceptual structures that characterize the increasing ability to respond appropriately to demand of rationality. Acquire for this purpose a method of critical reading and interpretation of medieval philosophical texts.

The course is based on lectures and commented readings of texts.

The main historiographic "strands" related to medieval philosophy; selection of complete editions and specialized studies devoted to texts and authors of the logical-linguistic and philosophical-naturalistic tradition and its "enrichment" because of the influence of Greek and Arabic cultural areas.

A. I Theoretical models (2 CFU, 318 pp.)

Texts:

- Concetto Martello, Platone latino. Forme di teoresi nel medioevo ‘alto’ e ‘centrale’, Academia, Sankt Augustin 2013, pp. 9-209.

- Andrea Vella, Secundum Viam Philosophi. Gli aristotelismi nel tardo medioevo latino (1250-1362), Officina di Stusi Medievali, Palermo 2014, pp. 7-125.

B. Exameral exegesis and cosmology in the Periphyseon by Giovanni Eriugena (4 CFU, 336 pp.)

- Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero, Esegesi biblica e cosmologia, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 1981 (pp. 21-116).

- Giovanni Scoto Eriugena, Divisione della natura, a cura di Nicola Gorlani, Bompiani, Milano 2013 (pp. xi-xxxvi).

- Giovanni Scoto, Sulle nature dell’universo, a cura di Peter Dronke, Libro III, Fondazione Valla / Mondadori, Milano 2014 (pp. 4-317 [solo pagine dispari]).

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.