Anotace
FALL TERM 2023
BA module: "MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY B", Středověká Filosofie B (THIS IS NOT AN ERASMUS COURSE)
Wednesday, 14:00-15:45 (in English) e-mail me for consultation or questions: anna.tropia@ff.cuni.cz
Why does Stanislaous Demba have an essence but no existence, and what is the essence of my friend Serena? In what (if it does) does the latter differ from mine? These rough bunch of questions are only rough examples of the different articulations of the relation between different beings and their own essence (let us leave for the moment what an essence is). The tract On being and essence (1252-1256) by Thomas Aquinas will provide us with the main textual material to answer such and many other questions. Connections with other texts by Aquinas will be made, in particular for what concerns the specific case of the human soul and the exceptional being of God.