History of Medieval Philosophy - KFIL021
Title: Dějiny středověké filozofie
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: ThLic. David Peroutka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): ThLic. David Peroutka, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : KFIL020
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Annotation -
The course focuses on the specifics of the medieval and Renaissance conception of being, truth, goodness and the meaning of human life, and on the particularity of the relationship between philosophy and faith in different periods of the Middle Ages. It asks what possibilities for human life medieval philosophy opened up and what persists as its legacy. The whole period is conceived as a movement within a metaphysical framework in which God as the supreme being gives meaning to the world and human life.
Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Literature -

Richard Heinzmann: Středověká filosofie. Olomouc: Olomouc, 2000.

Alain De Libera: Středověká filosofie. Praha: Oikúmené, 2001.

Marek Otisk: Na cestě ke scholastice. Praha: Filosofia, 2004.

Joseph Pieper: Scholastika. Osobnosti a náměty. Vyšehrad: Praha, 1993.

Karfík, F., Němec, V., Vilím, F. (ed.): Křesťanství a filosofie. Postavy latinské tradice. Praha: Česká křesťanská akademie, 1994.

Theo Kobusch: Filosofie vrcholného a pozdního středověku. Praha: Oikúmené, 2014.

Joseph Pieper: Tomáš Akvinský. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1997.

Stanislav Sousedík: Jsoucno a Bytí. Úvod do četby sv. Tomáše Akvinského. Praha: Křesťanská akademie, 1992.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Teaching methods -
Lectures, reading of recommended literature.
Last update: Sousedík Prokop, Mgr. Ing., Ph.D. (23.10.2022)
Requirements to the exam -

The subject of the examination is all that has been lectured.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Syllabus -

1) The concept of the Middle Ages and medieval philosophy. 2) Justin Martyr. Clement of Alexandria, Origen. 3) Aurelius Augustinus. 4) The Seven Liberal Arts, Boëthius, Dionysios the Areopagite, Eriugena. 5) The birth of scholasticism: Anselm; the controversy over universals, Abelard. 6) Muslim and Jewish Aristotelianism. 7) The reception of Aristotle in the Christian West, the emergence of universities, Albert the Great, the process of university education in the 13th and 14th centuries. 8) Thomas Aquinas: life and work, the relationship between philosophy and theology. 9) Thomas on the universals, Thomas's metaphysics of being, Thomas's ethics.10 ) Bonaventure, Master Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, William Ockham. 11) The beginnings of the Renaissance: Dante, Petrarch, humanism. 12) The return of Platonism in the Renaissance: the Council of Union at Ferrara and Florence, Nicholas of Cusa, the Florentine Academy, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola. Pomponazzi's Aristotelian reaction.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)