Medieval Philosophy I

Code:

FILO022

Acronym:

FMED1

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=971
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
FILO	78	FILO - Study Plan	2	-	6	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-know the main themes and authors of the medieval period.
-read and analyse representative texts of medieval philosophical discussions.
-identify and discuss the philosophical perspectives of the authors studied.

Program

PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

1. Historical and philosophical position of thought in the Middle Ages
- The multiple middle ages and their specificities: what are the criteria of demarcation?
- Rhythms and expressions of diversity of philosophies and philosophy during the Middle Ages. Reading resources: V-XIV centuries.

2. Specificities of philosophy in the Middle Ages. Problems, contexts, authors and thoughts.
- The confluence and the conflict of traditions: the Hellenistic-Roman, Patristic, Arabic, Jewish matrices. Against the other: between the old and the modern.
-Translationes studiorum.
- The invention of problems, concepts, types of discussion, of institutions.

3. Introduction to core issues of medieval thought
Principles:
I) Being, knowledge and truth (Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas)
Applications:
II)The cause of things and the arguments for the existence of God (Anselm, Thomas Aquinas)
III) The universals (Severine Boethius, Abelard)
IV)The purposes of man: knowledge and happiness (Boethius of Dacia and Thomas Aquinas).

BIBLIOGRAFIA
Principal
A) Colectâneas de textos
DE BONI, Luís Alberto: Filosofia Medieval. Textos, (Filosofia, 110) EDIPUCRS, Porto Alegre 2000.
FERNANDEZ, Clemente (org.), Los filosofos medievales, 2 vol., (BAC), La Editorial Catolica, Madrid 1980.
GRANT, Edward, A Sourcebook in Medieval Science, Harvard University Press, Cambridge [Mass.] 1974.
IMBACH, Ruedi — Maryse-Hélène MÉLÉARD (dir.): Philosophes médiévaux. Anthologie de textes philosophiques (XIIIe-XIVe siècles), (10/18, nº 1760, Bibliothèque médiévale) Union générale d’éditions, Paris 1986.
SCHOEDINGER, Andrew B.: Readings in Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Pres, New York — Oxford 1996.
B) Bibliografia activa
Ao longo do semestre serão disponibilizados os textos de leitura obrigatória (Porfírio, Agostinho, Boécio, Anselmo, Abelardo, Tomás de Aquino, Boécio de Dácia, Duns Escoto, Ockham) com orientações de leitura e bibliografias actualizadas.
C) Obras gerais de consulta
CALAFATE, Pedro (dir.), História do pensamento filosófico português, vol. I: Idade Média, Ed. Caminho, Lisboa 1999 [aconselha-se a 2ª ed.: Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa 2002].
GILSON, Etienne, La philosophie au Moyen Âge, Payot, Paris 1944 (trad. bras.: A filosofia na Idade Média, trad. E. Brandão, Martins Fontes, S. Paulo 1995).
LIBERA, Alain de, La philosophie médiévale (Premier Cycle) P.U.F., Paris 1993 (trad. bras.: A filosofia medieval, trad. Nicolás N. Campanário, Yvone M.C.T. da Silva, Ed. Loyola, São Paulo 1998, 532 pp.).
* MARENBON, John, Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction, Routledge, London 2007.
RAMÓN GUERRERO, Rafael, Historia de la Filosofía Medieval (Tractatus philosophiae, 2) Akal, Madrid 1996.
VIGNAUX, Paul, A Filosofia na Idade Média, trad. Maria J.V. Figueiredo, (Biblioteca de textos universitários, 1) Ed. Presença, Lisboa 1994 [ed. orig. desta versão: Philosophie au Moyen Âge, Les Éd. Castella, Albeuve 1987].

keywords

Humanities > History > History of philosophy > Medieval philosophy
Humanities > Philosophy

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
	Exame	80,00
	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Exame	2,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Frequência das aulas	15
	Total:	15,00