PH345 Medieval Philosophy
Prerequisite: PH200 or HO202
Medieval philosophers continued the classical tradition, but with radical new insights into faith, wisdom, God, and the heights to which human nature can aspire. This course traces that development in Christian thinkers (such as St. Augustine and St. Anselm), Islamic thinkers (such as Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Al-Ghazali) and Jewish thinkers like Maimonides to the scholastic synthesis of Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. One theme of the course is the interconnection between metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.