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 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. A reading of the Timaeus in the twelfth century (4 CFU, 619 pp.)

Testi:

- Guillelmus de Conchis, Glosae super Platonem, ed. É.A. Jeauneau, CCCM 203, Brepols, Turnhout 2006, pp. 123-183; 277-322.

- Concetto Martello, Platone a Chartres. Il Trattato sull’anima del mondo in Guglielmo di Conches. Introduzione, traduzione e note, Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo 2011, pp. 9-96; 97-177 (solo pagine dispari); 179-202.

- 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. 1-226.

- Concetto Martello, Anima e conoscenza in Guglielmo di Conches, CUECM, Catania 2012, pp. 85-127.

- Michel Lemoine, Intorno a Chartres. Naturalismo platonico nella tradizione cristiana del XII secolo, Jaca Book, Milano 1998, pp. 9-103.

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