History of Philosophy I 3800-NZ-HF1

This course will present main tenets of European philosophical thought from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 14th century C.E. Presentation of ancient philosophy will include following topics, figures and schools: the Pre-Socratics (Ionians, Pythagoreans, Eleatics), the humanists (Sophists as well as Socrates and his followers), systemic approaches (Plato and Aristotle), Hellenistic schools (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), syncretic approaches (Middle Platonism, Philo of Alexandria and Neoplatonism), Patristic philosophy (Gnosis, Greek and Latin Apologetics and Systematics – Origen, Augustine of Hippo). Discussion of medieval philosophy will include: Early Mediaeval Neoplatonism (Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Johannes Scotus Erigena), 11th century early Scholasticism (the dialectic/antidialectic dispute, Anselm of Canterbury), 11th/12th century universals debate (realism, nominalism, conceptualism - Abelard), 12th century Chartres Renaissance, 12th century Mysticism (Bernard of Clairvaux, the Victorian School), early Scholasticism (introduction of Aristotelian learning to universities), 13th century doctrinal movements (Latin Averroism, Aristotelianism of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas and Augustinianism - Bonaventura), 14th century movements (Thomism, Duns Scotus and Scotism, William of Ockham and via moderna), Mysticism (Johannes Eckhart). The aim of these lectures are to present the most important problems of ancient and mediaeval philosophy, reveal the main ideas, their evolution and continuation in the following centuries.