Medieval Philosophy (PHIL 4030/5020)

• Syllabus
• Paper Instructions for 4030
• Readings
• Augustine, On Christian Doctrine bks. 1-2 excerpts
• al-Ghazali, The Rescuer from Error
• Avicenna on soul (excerpts from al-Shifā’)
• Aquinas on soul (Summa theologiae 1a QQ75-76)
• Abelard’s Ethics
• Scotus’s ethics (selections from Williams)
• God’s existence
• Anselm, Monologion chs. 1-4
• Aquinas, Five Ways (Summa theol. 1a Q2)
• Anselm, Proslogion chs. 1-5 and exchange with Gaunilo
• Aquinas on God’s nature (Summa theol. 1a QQ3-10)
• What can we say about God?
• Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed, selections
• Aquinas on analogy (Summa theol. 1a Q13 art. 1-6, art. 12)
• Scotus on univocity (Ordinatio I.3.1 excerpts)
• Freedom and divine foreknowledge
• Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, end of Bk. IV and Bk. V
• Gersonides, Wars of the Lord Bk. III, excerpts
• Crescas, Light of the Lord treatise 2, excerpts
• Scotus on free will
• Questions on the Metaphysics IX.15
• Reportatio IA, distinctions 39-40, questions 1-3
• Ockham’s metaphysics, Summula philosophiae naturalis Bk. I (excerpts)
• Identity over time
• Autrecourt, Tractatus ch. 1, excerpts
• Buridan, two readings on identity
• Knowledge and skepticism
• Autrecourt’s letters to Bernard
• Buridan on certainty (Questions on the Metaphysics II.1)
• The game of obligationes (Yrjönsuuri 2000)