MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
SPRING 2007
THE COURSE OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY (TIMELINES)
Pre-Medieval History--up to 529AD
Early Medieval History (529-1100)
High Middle Ages (1100-1300)
Later Middle Ages/Renaissance (1300-1500)
GREEK PHILOSOPHY OVERVIEW
Powerpoint slides (in pdf format)
CHRISTIANITY
EARLY CHURCH FATHERS
Faith and Reason: Some general considerations of the issue
Two early uses of philosophy in the Christian Church
Greek Apologists: Justin Martyr
Latin Apologists: Tertullian
Clement of Alexandria
ST. AUGUSTINE
Biography
Faith and Reason (General Summary)
Proving God's Existence ("On the Free Choice of the Will" (Book II))
"City of God" (selections)
Pseudo-Dionysius and Augustine on The Nature of Evil
BOETHIUS
Boethius' Life
Boethius the Theologian
Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge (fr Consolation of Philosophy)
JOHN SCOTUS ERIUGENA
Biography
Methodology (Faith and Reason/NeoPlatonism)
The Division of Nature
ST. ANSELM
Life
Faith and Reason
Proving God’s existence (Arguments from the Proslogion)
Gaunilo's Objections
PETER ABELARD
Biography
Faith and Reason
Abelard and the Problem of Universals
Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION
Islam--Brief (!) Overview [Another Website/Second Other Website]
Islamic Philosophy: What, When, Where, Who?History of Islamic Philosophy [Website On Muslim Scientists]
Alkindi
Alfarabi
Avicenna
Algazel
Averroës of Cordoba
JEWISH TRADITION
Jewish philosophers: Maimonides
(13th Century Philosophy)
Grossetest and Bacon
BONAVENTURE
Life
Overview
Dispute over Creation and the Age of the Universe Bonaventure & St. Thomas
THOMAS AQUINAS
Life
Overview. Major themes of his work.
On Faith and Reason
The Question of Knowing the World had a beginning
Knowledge of God’s Existence and Nature
The Problem of Universals
The Unity of Man and the dispute over the Unity of the Intellect
Christian Beatitude and the Purpose of Human Life
JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
The Mystical Tradition: Meister Eckhart and Catherine of Sienna
Nicholas Cusanas
(Giovanni) Pico Della Mirandola