Medieval Philosophical Thought

Code: FIL14851L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

1. To assimilate the capital medieval sources of western tradition through direct reading, acquiring the ability to foil them
critically against contemporaneity, while grasping the intrinsic relationship between abstract forms of thinking andcultural
context;
2. To acknowledge fundamental questions Medieval philosophical threads;
3. To identify signs featuring the continuity, rupture and/or reshaping of the philosophical and cultural problems.

1. Introduction 1.1 The diversity of the matrices of medieval philosophical thought (5th-14th centuries): Christian, Jewish, Arabic;
Hellenic, Hellenistic, Patristic. 1.2 The Christian paideia: Christian religion and Greek culture and philosophy. 1.3 The translatio studii: a phenomenon of reception, mediation and interculturalisation. 1.4 The foundation of universities and the liberal arts
1.5 The constitution of the medieval corpus philosophorum
2. Core issues 2.1 Relationship between faith and reason 2.2 Human happiness and evil 2.3 Eternity and temporal modes 2.4 Divine omnipotence, human will and free will 2.5 World and human being 2.6 Anthropological soul-body dualism 2.7 Knowing and learning
2.8 Proof(s) of God's existence 2.9 Resonance of these questions in modern and contemporary philosophy
3. Peripheral issues 3 Peripheral issues 3.1 Women and philosophy: discourses on women and texts by women 3.3 Second Scholasticism and the University of Évora

Teaching Methods

Two methodological models are combined: one centred on the presentation of contexts, concepts, ideas and currents, for
which the lecturer is responsible; the other, dedicated to the commented reading of texts, the viewing of interviews with
scholars of Medieval Philosophy and the attendance of conferences (Open Classes), focusing on the dialogue between lecturer
and students or between guest and students.
Some of the lectures may be followed online, provided this is justified

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 1) attendance [10%]; 2) completion of a written test (aka attendance) [50%]; writing and oral
presentation of two reports [4 pp] on the texts analysed in (40%).
Assessment by exam (normal season): in accordance with the RAUÉ, a single, final assessment test is planned [100%].