Medieval Philosophy

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2021

Notoriously dismissed by Petrarch as the “Dark Ages” and still often overlooked today, the medieval period included some of the most profound thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. In this course, we will examine three of its great traditions, Platonism, Scholastic-Aristotelianism, and Nominalism, through the works of their greatest proponents, Augustine, Aquinas and Ockham. Specific topics will include skepticism, knowledge, human nature, divine nature, language, realism, conceptualism, and happiness.

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