PHI 3172: MEDIEVAL WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS -
Tuesdays 10:30 - 13:15 at UCA 111 - Louis Ha. email
Middle Ages in the West lasted for more than a millennium after the downfall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th Century. During this period people lived under certain unity and uniformity commanded by the strong influence of Christianity and the common acceptance of the importance of faith in one’s daily life. This course aims at presenting the thoughts of those centuries developed in serenity and piety together with the breakthroughs made by individual philosophers. Modern people, though live in a technologically advanced era, are quite often facing almost the same challenges of their Medieval fellow human-beings.
Siger of Brabant (c. 1240 – 1280s)
Controversial arts master, a leading figure among the so-called Latin Averroists.
THE ETERNITY OF THE WORLD - translated by Peter King
several sophismata (ed. Bazán 1974)
a set of Quaestiones logicales (ed. Bazán 1974)
a treatise on Impossibilia (ed. Bazán 1974)
commentary on De animaIII [ca. 1265] (ed. Bazán 1972)
commentary on the De generatione (ed. Bazán 1974)
commentary on the Physics (ed. Zimmermann, in Bazán 1974)
commentary on the Metaphysics [ca. 1273/75] (in four mss., representing four distinct reportationes, ed. Dunphy 1981; Maurer 1983)
commentary on the Liber de causis [1274/76] (ed. Marlasca 1972)
De necessitate et contingentia causarum (ed. Duin, La doctrine de la providence 1954)
De aeternitate mundi [ca. 1272] (ed. Bazán 1972; tr. Vollert et al. 1964)
De anima intellectiva [ca. 1271] (ed. Bazán 1972)