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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmid
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
2,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
1 | 120
Kontingentschema: Phil_Standard_WS1415
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The lecture will be in English:
Scholastic Philosophy was developed, studied and practiced in various “schools” or universities founded in 13th century Europe and dominated academic philosophy until the 18th century (at least). This tradition of philosophy had a strong interest in metaphysics (that is, in the question about the ultimate structure of reality) and was deeply influenced by Aristotle, whose ideas scholastic philosophers sought to reconcile with the views of central Christian thinkers (such as Augustine) and central doctrines of the Church (such as the view that God has created the world ex nihilo or the Trinity, that is the view that God consists of three distinct persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
While this tradition of philosophy is often scorned for its alleged uncritical adherence to authorities and Christian dogmas and its tendency to get entangled in terribly complicated yet ultimately futile distinctions, it did establish philosophical views and vocabulary, which was adopted (and hence found useful) by many non-scholastic philosophers as well and which might still be of philosophical interest today. Particularly interesting in this respect are discussions about the ultimate building blocks of reality, the nature of causation and freedom, or the metaphysics of modality (such as necessities and possibilities).
This lecture will present some of the late scholastic debates on metaphysics by discussing important parts of the work of the Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), whose central work – his Metaphysical Disputations (Disputationes Metaphysicae) – Martin Heidegger described as the eye through which Greek ontology found its way into modernity. In particular, the lecture will focus on Suárez’s theory of hylomorphism (the view that material substances are composed of matter (gr.: hylé) and form (gr.: morphé)), his theory of causation and freedom, and his theory of modalities.
Language skills: The lecture will be in English, though discussions can be led in German as well. For those who want to dig deeper into Suárez, knowledge of Latin will prove indispensable.
The lecture will be accompanied by a digital “class-room” on the internet-platform AGORA. Successful participants will have passed an open-book exam by end of the lecture.
Literatur:
Primary:
Suárez, Francisco, Disputationes Metaphysicae (1597), HTML version following to the Vives edition: URL = < http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/michael.renemann/suarez/index.html>
An extensive list of all of Suárez’s work (and some of its translations) are available online. It can be accessed via Sydney Penner’s homepage: URL = <http://sydneypenner.ca/suarez.shtml>
Secondary:
Hill, Benjamin and Henrik Lagerlund (eds.) 2012, The Philosophy of Suárez, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Salas, Victor and Robert Fastiggi (eds.) 2015, A Companion to Francisco Suárez, Dordrecht, Leiden: Brill.
Shields, Christopher and Schwartz, Daniel 2019, “Francisco Suárez”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/suarez/>.
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen:
Studienleistungen:
- regular attendance
- perparation for and reworking of the lectures
- Successful participants will have passed an open-book exam by end of the lecture.
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