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15559
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
n.a.
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Learning outcomes |
Medieval Philosophy aims to make students capable of:
1. Discuss the name 'Medieval Philosophy' itself and identify historically the sources, themes, currents of thought, and fundamental authors in the Middle Ages, from Saint Augustine to the 14th century.
2. Know how to identify, and characterize conditioning factors, in political, legal, historical, and cultural terms, of the idea of "translatio studiorum" along the Middle Ages;
3. Understand, explain, and interrogate the medieval model of knowledge that seeks to harmonize Faith and Reason with regard to the relationships between World, Soul and God, Physics, Logic, and Metaphysics, the moral order of the world, and demonstration of existence / essence of God;
4. Questioning the limits of human knowledge, freedom, and responsibility in what concerns to the divine providence, omniscience, and omnipotence affirmation;
5. Be able to compose a written text about a given theme / author of the program and feel comfortable to present i
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Syllabus |
1. From Augustine of Hippo (354-430) to the 'transmission of studies' ("translatio studiorum") between the 5th and the 9th centuries b.c. Main themes and authors.
2. The "fides quaerens intellectum” by Anselm of Canterbury.
3. The Arabic ''Falsafa'': authors, themes, and problems, with emphasis on Averroes.
4. The birth of the 'Schools' in the 12th century: Chartres, Cister, St. Victor; Mendicant Orders..., with attention to theLanguage and to the figure of Abelardo.
5. The rediscovery of Aristotle and introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), and Bonaventure (1217-1274).
6. Conclusion. The emergence of imbalances, and fractures (metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political) in the 'long XIV century'. The "beginning of the end of Middle Ages".
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Main Bibliography |
GILSON Étienne, A Filosofia na Idade Média. Das origens patrísticas até ao fim do séc. XIV, Martins Fontes, São Paulo,1995.
MARENBON, John, Medieval Philosophy: an historical and Philosophical Introduction, Routledge, London 2007.
AGOSTINHO Santo, Confissões, trad. port., A. do Espírito Santo et alii, Lisboa, IN-CM, 2000
ANSELMO Santo, Proslogion (Introdução, tradução, notas, propostas de trabalho e recepção do Argumento), trad.port. José M. S. Rosa e Helena Reis Pereira, Lisboa, Texto Editora, 1995,
AVERRÓIS, Discurso Decisivo sobre a Harmonia entre a Religião e a Filosofia (trad. port. de Catarina Belo), Lisboa, IN-CM, 2007
BOÉCIO, A Consolação da Filosofia, São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 1998 (livros IV-V).
TOMÁS DE AQUINO, Suma Teológica, 11 vols., (trad. de Alexandre Corrêa; ed. Bilingue latim-português), Porto Alegre, Escola Superior de Teologia São Lourenço de Brindes; Caxias do Sul, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, 1980-1981
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Considering the reflective nature of the Module, there will be exposition and introduction classes to themes and authors, and practical classes with text interpretation, commentary, dialogue, argument, clarification of doubts, and debate with the students. In these classes, there will be a strong connection to textual analysis, and recognition, in the texts, of authors, themes, and their historical contexts.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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