Learning objectives
A sufficient acquaintance with XIVth-XVIth Century discussions on metaphysics and theology.
Reading and learning ability, related mainly to philosophical texts; good acquaintance with philosophical terms and with different philosophical schools. Writing in clear and argued form of papers on philosophical texts and problems. Gaining abilities in doing research through the acquaintance with the sources and the main bibliographical instruments
Prerequisites
A sufficient acquaintance with the history of late medieval philosophy
Course unit content
«Utrum inter omnes scientias metaphysica maxime ab homine appetatur appetitu naturali» (Francisco Suarez, Disputationes Metaphysicae, I, 6). Metaphysics in a Late Renaissance Scholastic handbook.
Francisco Suarez's (1548-1617) Disputationes Metaphysicae is one of the most widespread work of the Renaissance Aristotelianism and one of the more interesting and effective outcome of the philosophical and pedagogical programs of Post-Tridentine philosophy and theology. In particular some topics discussed in the first and the second Disputatio («De natura primae philosophiae» and «De ratione essentiali seu conceptu entis») will be the focus of the lectures.
Full programme
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Bibliography
-FRANCISCO SUAREZ, Disputazioni Metafisiche. I-III, Introduzione, traduzione, note e apparati di Costantino Esposito, Milano, Rusconi 1996 («Testi a fronte») or the edition: Milano, Bompiani 2007 («Testi a fronte»)
-JEAN-FRANÇOIS COURTINE, Il sistema della metafisica. Tradizione aristotelica e svolta di Suarez, a cura di COSTANTINO ESPOSITO. Prefazione di GIOVANNI REALE, Milano, Vita e Pensiero 1999 (ed. originale, Paris, PUF 1990) («Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico. Studi e testi, 74»)
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods and criteria
paper and oral examination
Other information
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