FOCUS ON MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- SILVANA VECCHIO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- M-FIL/08
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is to improve the knowledge of medieval philosophy analysing a specific topic and reading direclty the texts.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of medieval philosophy
Course programme
- Virtues in medieval ethics
Didactic methods
- The course will focus on the direct reading of the texts with the active participation of the students.
Learning assessment procedures
- The oral examination (3-4 questions about the content of the course) will be preceded by a written paper on a subject chosen by the student among those treated in the course
Reference texts
- Tentative bibliography:
- Tommaso d'Aquino, Summa theologiae, traduzione e commento a cura dei Domenicani italiani
Bologna : ESD
- Jean-Pierre Torrell, La Summa di san Tommaso, Milano : Jaca book, 2003
- István P. Bejczy, The cardinal virtues in the Middle Ages : a study in moral thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century, Leiden Brill, 2011
- Italo Sciuto, L'etica nel medioevo : protagonisti e percorsi (5.-14. secolo), Torino : Einaudi, 2007
The examination program will be supplied at the beginning of the course
