General part

18.02.Introduction to the course and general informations about requirements and exams. Historical introduction to the theme

25.02. Notions about the medieval Scholastic Philosophy and the literary genres of the medieval University. Examples of summae, commentaria and tractatus from medieval authors.

03.03. The concept of auctoritas and its use in the medieval Scholasticism.

Reception of Aristotle

10.03. Latin Medieval translations of Aristotle’s works. Reading of examples

17.03. The Auctoritates Aristotelis: history and structure of a fundamental medieval florilegium. Reading of the introduction.

24.03. Reading of other passages from the Auctoritates Aristotelis, in particular belonging to Metaphysica and De anima

31.03. Medieval commentaries of Aristotle’s works. Reading of examples from Averroes, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure

07.04. Aristotle as a philosophical support to theology. The use of Aristotle’s categories in the treatises of Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460). Reading of selected passages from Heymericus’ Millelogicon.

Reception of Plato

14.04. Medieval platonism: an overview

21.04. Timaeus and its medieval reception.

28.04. Jean Gerson and his criticism to Plato and the Platonici. Reading of selected passages

Reception of Augustine

05.05. Confessiones

12.05. De doctrina christiana in the scholastic thought