Aquinas in Context Fall 2015: Aquinas and Bonaventure Detailed Syllabus

Aquinas in Context Fall 2015: Aquinas and Bonaventure

Detailed Syllabus

Aquinas in Context Fall 2015: Aquinas and Bonaventure

Office hours:

Prof. Robiglio: Forthcoming

Prof. Taylor, Tuesdays 16h00-19h00 via Skype by appointment or arrange another time by via email: richard.taylor@hiw.kuleuven.be

Detailed Syllabus

24 September 2015: Introduction (T&R)

・Course procedures

・Overview of course

・Creation & Human Knowledge in the Medieval European Christian tradition

・Translated sources from the Arabic tradition contributing to new

understandings in the Medieval European Christian tradition

1 October 2015: Creation in the Arabic Tradition (T)

・Philo of Alexandria

Readings:

On the Creation

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

・Creation in Islam and in Philosophy in the Lands of Islam

・The Circle of al-Kindi: See Text #2 on the Translations Various webpage.

・The Theology of Aristotle, the Discourse on the Pure Good (Liber de causis).

See Texts ## 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on the Translations webpage. Click HERE.

・Ibn Gabirol: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Click HERE.

For the text of Ibn Gabirol’s Fons Vitae, see http://sacred-texts.com/jud/fons/index.htm.

There you can search Parts I-IV for ‘creat’ to find many of the key passages.

・Ibn Sina / Avicenna : See the videos below for key texts.

・Ibn Rushd / Averroes : See the videos below for key texts.

Video lectures available:

Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and The Plotiniana Arabica on

creation. Click https://youtu.be/BWrd-3Jx_hw

Creation in Islam: Click https://youtu.be/7T7j2JtepyI

Kalam fi mahd al-khair (Discourse on the Pure Good) Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ih-5lv2OFE&feature=youtu.be.

Creation in Ibn Sina / Avicenna’s Metaphysics. Three video lectures:

Video lecture on Avicenna, Metaphysics book 6

Video lecture on Avicenna, Metaphysics book 8

Video lecture on Avicenna, Metaphysics book 9

Creation in Averroes: Averroes on Creation in his Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. Click HERE.

Also see Taylor, “Conceiving Creation According to Ibn Rushd / Averroes,” Philosophy in the Islamic Lands, The Catholic University of America, 15 November 2013. See http://philosophy.cua.edu/fall2013lectures.cfm.

Recommended Podcasts at Peter Adamson’s “History of Philosophy without any gaps” site:

88.Plotinus on the One: http://historyofphilosophy.net/plotinus-one-intellect
94.Proclus: http://historyofphilosophy.net/proclus.
120.Philosophy and Islam: http://historyofphilosophy.net/intro-islamic-world
123.Al-Kindi: http://historyofphilosophy.net/al-kindi
140.Avicenna on God: http://historyofphilosophy.net/avicenna-god

8 October 2015: Creation in the Medieval European Christian tradition (R) (Prof. Taylor in Munich for conference.)

・Creation in Augustine:

De Genesi ad Litteram, Book IV

http://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_lettera/index2.htm; &

Confessiones, Book XI

http://www.augustinus.it/latino/confessioni/index2.htm (Original)

and

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110111.htm (English).

Optional reading: R. Teske, “The Motive of Creation according to St. Augustine”, in The Modern Schoolman 65 (1988), pp. 245-253 (available on Toledo).

・Medieval commentaries on Genesis (Hexaemeron)

・‘Double Creation’ in Scotus Eriugena. Link: click HERE. Also see

http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost09/Eriugena/eri_per0.html (Latin)

And

https://www.scribd.com/doc/231147184/Periphyseon-on-the-Division-of-Nature-COMPLETE-BOOK-John-Scottus-Eriugena (English)

・The XIIth century renaissance and the question of creation:

Selection from Peter Abaelard’s commentary on Hexaemeron

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503535111-1

Recommended Podcasts at Peter Adamson’s “History of Philosophy without any gaps” site:

199.Eriugena’s Periophysen: http://historyofphilosophy.net/eriugena-periphyseon

15 October 2015: no class.

・Students should view the videos listed above under 1 October 2015 if they have not already studied them.

22 October 2015: (i) Comparative study of the Prologues by Aquinas and Bonaventure to their Commentaries on the Sentences; (ii) Bonaventure on Creation in his Commentary on the Sentences (T&R)

Required readings:

(i)Comparative study of the two Prologues by Aquinas and Bonaventure to their Commentaries on the Sentences;

NOTE: A translation of the Prologue of Aquinas to his Commentary on the Sentences is available at http://dhspriory.org/thomas/Sentences.htm.

Prof. Taylor is preparing a new translation from the recent critical edition of the Prologue of Aquinas. This should be available via a link here on Monday 19 October. The Latin texs of Aquinas and Bonaventure should be available on Toledo.

(ii)Bonaventure on Creation in his Commentary on the Sentences (see https://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/Aquinas_in_Context_Fall_2015/Translations_Bonaventure_Comm_on_Sentences_%28selected%29.html.

(1) Dist. 1, Pt.1, Art.1, Question 1: Whether things have a causal principle, pp.1-8.

(2) Dist. 1, PT.1, Art.2, Question 1: Whether Things Have Been Produced in Being by Many Principles, pp.9-13

(3) Dist. 1, Pt.1, Art.2, Question 2: Whether the First Principle Produced All Things By Himself or Through the Mediation of Another, pp.14-17

(4) Dist. 1, Pt.1, Art.3, Question 1: Whether Creation Means a Change, (Utrum creatio mutationem dicat.) pp.18-22

(5)Dist. 1, Pt.1, Art.3, Question 2: Whether Creation Indicates Something Mediate Between the Creator and the Creature, pp.23-27

Optional readings:

・ Andreas Speer, “Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 6.1 (March 1997) 25-46. Click HERE.

・ Kevin White, “St Thomas Aquinas on Prologues,” Archivum Francisanum Historicum 98 (2005) 803-813. Available on Toledo.

29 October 2015: Aquinas on Creation (1 of 2) in his Commentary on the Sentences (R) (Prof. Taylor at conference in Mexico City)

・Translation of In 2 Sent. d. 1, q.1, a.2: Whether anything can go forth from Him by creation: Click HERE.

5 November 2015: Aquinas on Creation (2 of 2) in his later mature works (R&T)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Ist part, qq. 44-45, namely:

- q. 44 concerning The Procession of Creatures from God, and the First Cause of All Beings

- q. 45 concerning The mode of Emanation of Things from the First Principle

The English translation by A. J. Freddoso is available on-line, at:

http://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC-part1.htm.

- R.E. Houser, "Avicenna, aliqui, and Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of creation", Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales, 80 (2013), pp. 17-55.

optional reading :

Sarah Broadie - Anthony Kenny, "The creation of the World", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, vol. 78 (2004), pp. 65-79, 81-92

T. V. Morris, “Creation ex nihilo: Some Considerations”, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 14 (1983), pp. 233-239.

H. A. Wolfson, “The meaning of ‘ex nihilo’ in the Church Fathers, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophy, and St. Thomas”, in H. A. Wolfson, Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 1973-1977), vol. I, pp. 207-221.

12 November 2015: Aquinas (3) and Bonaventure on creation and philosophy in his Collationes in Hexaemeron (R&T)

・Selections in English from Bonaventure, Collations on the Six Days, available on Toledo

・Andreas Speer, “Bonaventure and the Question of a Medieval Philosophy,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 6.1 (March 1997) 25-46. Click HERE.

・ Recommended: Podcasts at Peter Adamson’s “History of Philosophy without any gaps” site: #233 Bonventure: http://historyofphilosophy.net/bonaventure.

19 November 2015: Siger of Brabant on Creation: Questio de creatione ex nihilo (R&T)

・ Latin Averroism in the 13th Century

・The Paris Condemnation of 1277 and the Ghost of ‘Double Truth’

(The doctrine of double truth, one for religion and one for philosophy, was attributed to Averroes and the Latin Averroists. But Averroes himself denied it. For an article on Averroes on this, click HERE.)

・ Andrea Robliglio, “Breaking the Great Chain of Being. A Note on the Paris Condemnations of 1277, Thomas Aquinas and the Proper Subject of Metaphysics”

・ Siger of Brabant’s Question on Creation Ex Nihilo, new translation forthcoming. Click HERE.

26 November 2015: Religion and Philosophy I: Human Knowledge according to Bonaventure (R)

(American Thanksgiving Holiday, Prof. Taylor unavailable)

・Required reading: Bonaventure, Disputed Question on the Knowledge of Christ (1254), qq. 1, 2 and 4. (Available on KUL Toledo system)

・Optional reading: Ph. L. Reynolds, “Bonaventure’s Theory of Resemblance,” Traditio 58 (2003) 219-255.

3 December 2015: Religion and Philosophy II: Albert the Great’s New Theory of Human Knowledge (T)

・Albert the Great’s New Theory of Human Knowledge was the source of the foundational teachings of Aquinas. See “Albert the Great’s Account of Human Knowledge . . . .” Click HERE.

・For a video lecture on Albert’s account in the De homine, click https://streaming.mu.edu/Watch/Qz39Wct7. Another related video is available https://streaming.mu.edu/Watch/Eq79Lyo8.

・Aquinas’s adoption and use of Albert’s New Theory in the Commentary on the

Sentences. A translation of In 2 Sent d. 17, q.2, a.2 “Whether there is one soul or intellect for all human beings” is available on the TRANSLATIONS AQUINAS webpage: click HERE.

・Video links:

Aquinas on the soul in the Commentary on the Sentences, click https://streaming.mu.edu/Watch/Zb2w9C7K.

Aquinas on the intellect in the Commentary on the Sentences, click https://streaming.mu.edu/Watch/Nz35JeSp.

10 December 2015: Religion and Philosophy II: Human Knowledge according to Aquinas (T&R)

Required readings:

・Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 79 (complete) Available at:

http://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/Part%201/st1-ques79.pdf

・Robert Pasnau’s abstract on the identity of Known and knower Available at:

http://faculty.fordham.edu/klima/APAPasnau.htm