Wijsbegeerte 2019-2020
Lecture 11 & 12. The Final Blog
We have come to the end of the course medieval philosophy, and a fitting end it is. We end with political philosophy and ethics, just like Al-Farabi would have done through his enumeration of the sciences. But in this blogpost, I want to shortly reflect on what this course has meant to me. In general,…
Lecture 10. Thomas Aquinas and revelation
Today we are discussing one of the most influential theologians and philosophers throughout time: Thomas Aquinas. We focus on his union of reason and religion. Aquinas argues that new knowledge in theology is obtained through revelation. Revelation is the process where divine truth is communicated to humans through God. But how is thinking of something…
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