FS5012 - HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

courses

ID:

FS5012

Duration (hours):

48

CFU:

SSD:

STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

HISTORICAL STUDIES AND WRITING HERITAGE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE CONTEMPORARY AGE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Course Objectives

Educational objectives. - The course of History of Medieval Philosophy aims to provide students with a sound knowledge in the historical-philosophical and critical fields. Expected learning outcomes. - Knowledge: knowledge of the development of a significant portion of the history of philosophy. - Skills: the ability to expound the aforementioned knowledge. - Autonomy of judgment: the ability to critically examine the historical evolution of philosophical themes and questions; the ability to critically examine the interaction and historical evolution of different cultural perspectives.

Course Prerequisites

It is advisable for students to have already acquired a basic knowledge of the evolution of ancient and medieval philosophy.

Teaching Methods

Classroom lectures and seminars.
Some lessons will take place online.

Assessment Methods

Assessment method: oral exam. Characteristics of the oral exam. - The oral exam can be sustained by the student of the cohort on the occasion of every exam to which he/she can legitimately enroll. - The oral exam will be in the form of questions that the examiner will ask to the candidate. - For candidates who attended the lectures, the questions will be based on the syllabus, the chosen textbook and the issues covered during the lectures. For candidates who did not attend, the questions will be based on the syllabus and the chosen textbook, and the candidates will be expected to demonstrate analytical knowledge of the latter. - The candidate will be marked according to the amount and accuracy of the knowledge that he/she is expected to have learned, on his/her ability to expound on it and on his/her ability to critically examine the historical evolution of the Late Antique and Medieval thought, including the interaction between different cultural perspectives. - Marks will be given out of thirty. - Incoming students in international mobility can take the oral exam in English.

Texts

The syllabus of the History of Medieval Philosophy course is partially differentiated into a programme for attending students and a programme for non-attending students. Both programmes include the study of a university textbook dedicated to the development of thought from the Late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. The following texts are recommended for preparation for the related examination (as alternative to one another). - Sofia VANNI ROVIGHI, Storia della filosofia medievale. Dalla patristica al secolo XIV, a cura di Pietro B. Rossi, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2011. - Étienne GILSON, La filosofia nel Medioevo. Dalle origini patristiche alla fine del XIV secolo. Whatever reprint (e.g.: Milano: Rizzoli, 2011). Other university handbooks can be agreed with the teacher. Further notes may be provided by the teacher at class. Attending students will train on the content of the chosen textbook and on what the teacher explains in class. Non-attending students will train exclusively and analytically on what they read in the chosen textbook. They are also advised to recur to the following text: Costantino ESPOSITO - Pasquale PORRO, Filosofia, vol. 1 “Antica e medievale”, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2009 (or a subsequent reprint), from ch. 7 to the end.

Within the course "History of Medieval Philosophy", at class the teacher presents the philosophical doctrines developed by the interaction between Greek thought and the main religions of the Mediterranean area in the period between the Late Antiquity and the later Middle Ages.

Course Language

Italian.

More information

No signatures are collected during the lessons. The qualification of 'attending' or 'non-attending' student is granted to the free and responsible assessment and decision of the student, who will declare his/her status on the occasion of the exam. Official office hours are indicated in the document published on the dedicated website. Nonetheless, students are strongly recommended to ask for an appointment by e-mail, briefly presenting the queries they intend to submit to the teacher. The teacher is also available to answer the students' questions at hours different from the official ones. If the University provides for it, meetings will take place online. The lecturer is available to answer written requests for clarification on the provisions of this syllabus. These should be sent by email to their institutional address.