Преподавател(и):

гл. ас. Сергей Стефанов  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

After completing successfully this course the students will:

1) know:

• the key ideas of the medieval philosophy

• the basic aspects of western medieval culture

2) are capable of:

• applying a historico-philosophical approaches to the analysis of the philosophical ideas

Предварителни изисквания:
-

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1. Introduction: the Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Religion vs Philosophy: the basic topics
3. The Christian neoplatonism: Origen and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
4. Augustine of Hippo: Predestination and Freedom of Will
5. Boethius: the Substance
6. The Carolingian Renaissance
7. Anselm’s Ontological Argument
8. Philosophy of Nature in the 12th century
9. Medieval Cities and the Rise of the Universities
10. How to read the scholastic texts? (the nature of scholastic philosophy)
11. The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
12. The Philosophy of John Duns Scot
13. The Philosophy in Medieval England: Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon
14. Late Medieval Nominalism : William Occam
15. The Political Ideas of Medieval Philosophy and Theology

Литература по темите:

Medieval Philosophy. Essential Readings with Commentary, Oxford 2007

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, vol. 1&2, ed. Robert Pasnau, Cambridge 2010

The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, ed. A.H. Armstrong, Cambridge 2008