Category: Medieval Thought

Selected Writings

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Prerequisite(s): Course for Graduate Students and Upper Level Undergraduates. Ockham indicates 'something having whiteness' as the nominal definition of 'white': in it, 'something' is expressed in recto, while 'whiteness' in obliquo. As for Plotinus, matters were even worse. Philosophy is thus a form of inquiry--a process of analysis, criticism, interpretation, and speculation. Of passages and verses concerning the universe, the creation chapters (Gen. 1–2) were interpreted as stating that the world was created out of nothing and in time.

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Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

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The Arts Faculty: Boethius of Dacia, Siger of Brabant S. It is generally agreed that it begins with Augustine (354 – 430) who strictly belongs to the classical period, and ends with the lasting revival of learning in the late eleventh century, at the beginning of the high medieval period After the collapse of the Roman empire, Western Europe lapsed into the so-called Dark Ages, and there was little intellectual activity in this period.

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Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and Philosophical Profile

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He studied at the Academy in Athens, and borrowed from many philosophers who had preceded him. Kock, Ilona, “The Debate About God’s Simplicity: Reason and Spirit in the Eighth Discussion of Al-Ghazali’s Tahafut Al-Falasifa and Ibn Rushd’s Tahafut At-Tahafut,” in Reason, Spirit and the Sacral, pp. 157-83. Based on the Works of al-Jalâl al-Dîn al-Suyûtî (849-909/1448-1505),” Islamic Law and Society, 15 (2008): 250-67.

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THE SCM PRESS A-Z OF THOMAS AQUINAS

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He explains that in the Diaspora the Jews were not responsible for the political, social, and economic factors of the world in which they lived, and so the Torah did not have the opportunity to deal with the fundamentals of actual human existence. "Now – and only now, with the attainment of the independence of the Jewish nation – will Judaism be tested, as to whether indeed it has a 'Torah of life' in its hand" (p. 96).

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Abelard and Heloise in Mediaeval Testimonies (W.P.Ker

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The fourth and final reason I can think of for the FBI to adhere to the highest standards of integrity is another self-serving one. Philosophy has helped me understand the many viewpoints of my students, how to converse with others to get my ideas across in a meaningful way, and how to make well-thought decisions quickly. Aydinli, Usman, “Emergence of the Qadarî Notion in Islamic Thought—Ma’bad al-Juhanî, Ghaylân al-Dimashqî and the Others,” Hamdard Islamicus, 31,2 (2008): 41-55. The influence of Aristotle and other Greeks pervaded the thought of Muslim philosophers, such as Avicenna and Averroës, and the Spanish-born Jew, Moses Maimonides.

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Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy

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For the Earl of Shaftesbury this was identical to the moral sense, beauty just is the sensory version of moral goodness. It may be described by saying that it is a system of Moderate Realism and Moderate Intellectualism. Religious and philosophical influence on art was common (and diverse) but never universal; it is easy to find art that largely ignores philosophy and religion in almost every Chinese time period. For him, man is “rational soul which has a body.” It does not mean that the soul which has a body has two persons.

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Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to

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He teaches philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of social science; recent seminars topics include consciousness, free will, and rationality. Hamlyn, A History of Western Philosophy (1987); R. Stroumsa, Sarah, “On Maimonides and on Logic,” Aleph, 14.1 (2014): 259-63 [response to Davidson’s article]. It is conventionally divided into three large eras: ancient, medieval, and modern. Gilson’s demonstration is primarily historical and occasionally theoretical in suggesting how doctrines that satisfied our predecessors for so many centuries may still be found conceivable today.

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Duns Scotus

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Synthesis is putting things together--perhaps things that never have been put together before--to offer a look at the whole, at the big picture, of how things work. Emphasizing the centrality of a belief in revelation, Duran listed three dogmas, the existence of God, revelation, and reward and punishment, which became the foundations of Joseph Albo's philosophy. Zum Wesen und zur Geschichte der platonischen Ontologie (Heidelberg 1959, Amsterdam 1967). – L’aporia del bene apparente.

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Animals and Agency (Human-Animal Studies)

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Al-Maliki, Hinda,”Ibn Rushd vu par une source historique arabe: Ibn Abî Usaybi’a,” Bulletin d’Études Orientales, 57 (2006-2007): 167-84. First he would find it easiest to look at shadows, next at the reflections of men and other objects in water, and later on at the objects themselves. Pessin, Sara, “The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides,” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides-islamic/. Actes du Colloque International Tenu à Leuven et Louvain-la-Neuve, les 17 et 18 novembre 2005, ed. by Daniel De Smet, Meryem Sebti, & Godefroid de Gallataÿ (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, 38).

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Social Theories of the Middle Ages, 1200-1500

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Attempts to Christianize Epicureanism were inevitable. a. During Byzantine times scholars who copied and studied or even lect... However, by far the best known of Gabirol's teachings was his notion that spiritual substances (the angels and the human soul), no less than corporeal substances, are composed of matter and form. Quine was having a major influence, with such classics as Two Dogmas of Empiricism. The focus of the Institute is on the relationship between medieval philosophy and theology and modern continental philosophy and theology.

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