History of Medieval Philosophy

Acquire a first awareness of the link between society, philosophical ideas and practices in the Middle Ages through the highlighting of the paths for which to define and mature a demand of rationality. Make an initial experience of critical reading of medieval philosophical texts.

The teaching method is based on the deepening of the main themes ofthe history of medieval thought and philosophy during frontal lessons, which take into account the needs and shortcomings of the students. This needs highlighted in the interaction in which the training relationship consists.

History of philosophical thought from late antiquity to humanism, with particular reference to the Latin language and cultural dynamics which constitute the original contribution of the schools to the definition of the logical and linguistic procedures, as well as to the “growth” of knowledge, through what remains in cultural circles of the ancient philosophical.

A. The History and the Problems (7 CFU, 703 pp.)

Texts:

- Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri e Massimo Parodi, Storia della filosofia medievale, Laterza, Bari 2012 (pp. 3-463).

- Kurt Flasch, Introduzione alla filosofia medievale, Einaudi, Torino 2002 (pp. 3-246).

B. Aristotelianism and Christian Thought. The “De ente et essentia” of Thomas Aquinas (2 CFUm 161 pp.).

Texts:

- Pasquale Porro, Tommaso d’Aquino. Un profilo storico-filosofico, Carocci, Roma 2012 (pp. 13-73).

- Tommaso, L’ente e l’essenza, a cura di Pasquale Porro, Bompiani, Milano 2002 (pp. 5-43; 75-135 [only the odd pages]).

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