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.

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 tradition and of the arabic and scientific experiences and mediations.

A. The History and the Problems (7 CFU, 688 pp.)

Texts:

- Loris Sturlese, Filosofia nel Medioevo, Carocci, Roma 2014 (pp. 11-107).

- AA.VV., Interpretazioni del Medioevo, a cura di Maria Assunte Del Torre, Il Mulino, Bologna 1979 (pp. 27-248).

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

- Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Il pensiero politico medievale, Laterza, Roma/Bari 2000 (pp. 28-40; 82-198).

B. Definitions and division of Philosophy (2 CFU, 209 pp.)

Texts:

- Ugo di San Vittore, Didascalicon. de studio legendi / Dell’arte di leggere, a cura di Massimo Sannelli, La Finestra, Lavis (TN) 2011, pp. III-XVII, 5-223 (solo le dispari).

- Vincenzo Liccaro, Introduzione a: Ugo di San Vittore, Didascalicon, Rusconi, Milano 1987, pp. 7-61.

- Concetto Martello, I princìpi e le cause. Le “Glosae super Platonem” di Guglielmo di Conches. Liber Primus. Lettura storico-critica, Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo 2014, pp. 55-87.