Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500246 Philosophy | OB | 2 | 2 |
There is no requirement
Medieval philosophy is a compulsory subject of the second year of the degree of Philosophy. The specific objectives of this subject are:
a. To get a good knowledge of the main authors, and of the philosophical and scientists approaches and problems in the Medieval Age.
b. To learn more about the two most significant authors of medieval philosophy: Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
c. To obtain a general knowledge of the main medieval Catalan authors.
d. To read, understand and interpret several texts by some studied authors.
e. To reflect on some problems considered by thinkers at this time.
f. To develop their own critical and self-critical thinking.
g. To connect the contents of the subject with the content of other subjects of the degree.
BACKGROUND: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHICAL LEGACY
1. Academic Philosophy*, Neoplatonism and biblical and patristic tradition*
2. Augustine of Hippo. Introduction
3. Augustine of Hippo: God, creation, human being*
4. Augustine of Hippo: knowledge
5. Augustine of Hippo: Language, time, moral philosophy, the "political augustinisme"
MEDIEVAL PATRISTIC PHILOSOPHY
6. Latin authors
7. Greek authors
THE LAST NEOPLATONISM
8. The Neoplatonic school of Athens
MUSLIM PHILOSOPHY
9. Muslim philosophy*
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
10. Jewish philosophy*
BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY
11. Byzantine philosophy*
CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
12. Latin philosophy at the Age of the Monasteries (9th-12th centuries)
SCHOLASTICISM: EARLY PERIOD AND MATURITY
13. The Renaissance of the twelfth century. The «new Aristotle»
14. Thomas Aquinas (1225-274) and his time
15. Thomas Aquinas: The Summa Theologiaeand the God’s existence
16. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotelian metaphysics
17. Thomas Aquinas: anthropology, moral, politics
THE PHILOSOPHY AFTER THE CONDEMNATION OF 1277
18. The Condemnation of 1277 and its consequences. John Duns Scot (ca. 1266-1308)
19. The "via modernorum": nominalism and mysticism
THE MEDIEVAL CATALAN PHILOSOPHY
20. Catalan philosophy until the beginning of the 14th century
21. Scotists and Thomists*
22. Towards the Renaissance and Humanism
* = Students who aspire to the highest grade are recommended to make an oral presentation about any of the topics marked with a * (see Evaluation)
Lessons combine theoretical lectures with reading and comments about particularly significant texts. The lecturer will follow the manual "Introduction to medieval philosophy" (UAB Manuals, 57), UAB, Publications Service, 2012, written by himself expressly for this subject. The student must go to class having prepared the daily topic. The lecturer's explanation of the subject presupposes this preparation.
In addition, the student will have to make personal readings.
We will use the Virtual Campus to share the materials. On the other hand, if the student wishes to contact the lecturer, he or she must send a personal email (not by a Virtual Campus message).
The tutorials will be basically dedicated to prepare the essay and the compulsory readings, and to solve any doubt.
In order that students may program the course correctly, on the first day of class the lecturer will provide a calendar with all the important dates (examinations, work assignments, etc.) in the Virtual Campus.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures on fundamental concepts | 28.5 | 1.14 | 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 12, 18 |
Presentation of the cours | 1.5 | 0.06 | 8, 17 |
Reading texts | 15 | 0.6 | 22, 5, 6, 12, 15, 16, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Reading: "Confessions", X-XIII, by Augustine of Hippo | 20 | 0.8 | 14, 2, 15, 16, 17, 20 |
Reading: "De ente et essentia", by Aquinas | 20 | 0.8 | 4, 5, 6, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18 |
Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 14, 2, 11, 20, 21 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Bibliographical research | 20 | 0.8 | 6 |
Essay about a compulsory reading | 7.5 | 0.3 | 5, 6, 15, 16, 18 |
Preparation of topics and texts | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 |
The assessment is continued and requires the constant follow-up of the course. To pass the course is required: a) to achieve a mark of 4, at least, in each exam; b) to achieve a mark of 5 in average, at least, in the set of all the activities. If a student does not fulfil these two conditions, he or she must be submitted to a reevaluation exam. The essays will not have a reevaluation. The reevaluation is not possible without having done previously the ordinary exam.
The reassessment exam format will be similar to the ordinary exams format and will have two parts: one for the topics of each partial exam. The student will only have to do the failed part(s).
The student whose evaluation activities have not reached the 30% of the activities will be assessed as “Non-evaluable”.
After the reevaluations, there is not a second round.
The lecturer will assign a day, hour and place to review the exams after having evaluated the activities of the course. Students who have to do the reassessment will have a specific day of review when they will have done the aforementioned reevaluation exam.
Comments on the evaluation activities
Exams: The student has to do two partial exams. Each exam may consist of two parts: theoretical and commentary questions of a passage. In addition to the theoretical contents of the subject, the student has to show his or her knowledge of the compulsory readings. In the theoretical questions, it will be necessary to demonstrate some knowledge of the basic bibliography. It is important to supplement the lecturer's presentations with, at least, a companion book. If the student has not been able to take one of the exams, he has failed it or the average of the assessment activitiesof the course does not reach5, he will have to be submitted for a reassessment.
Essay: The student will do two compulsory readings: Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, X-XIII;and Thomas Aquinas,De ente et essentia. Both will be object to the exam. In addition, the student will have to present an essay based on one of the two works (to choose). This essay must have an extension of 5,000 words maximum.
Participation in class. The lecturer will take into account the students participation in class.
Students who aspire to the maximum grade are advised to make an oral presentation on one of the subjects marked with an asterisk (*) (see Contents).
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Essay on one of the compulsory reading | 33,3 | 4.5 | 0.18 | 1, 19, 22, 4, 6, 14, 8, 2, 9, 10, 11, 23, 12, 15, 7, 17, 21 |
Exam 1 | 33,3 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 19, 5, 8, 9, 10, 23, 13, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 |
Exam 2 | 33,4 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 19, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 23, 13, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 |
Studentbook:
Jaume Mensa i Valls, Introducció a la filosofia medieval (Manuals de la UAB, 57), Bellaterra, Servei de Publicacions, 2012, 280 pàgs. With specific bibliography about different topics.
To find out more:
K. Flasch, El pensament filosòfic a l'Edat Mitjana. D'Agustí a Maquiavel, Santa Coloma de Queralt, Edèndum, 2006.
A. de Libera, La filosofia medieval, València, 2006.
Andrés Martínez Lorca, La filosofía medieval. De Al-Farabi a Ockham (Descubrir la Filosofía, 18), Madrid, El País, 2015.
Giannina Burlando, F. Bertelloni (eds.), La filosofía medieval, Madrid, Trotta, CSIC, 2002;
Michela Pereira, La filosofia nel Medioevo. Secoli VI-VX, Roma, Carocci, 2008 .
Agustí, "Confessions", X-XIII, ed. M. Dolç, Barcelona, Proa, 2007;
Tomàs d'Aquino, Antologia metafísica (Textos filosòfics, 56), Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1991.