PHIL5247 · Philosophy
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
While it is commonly known that Aquinas was a product of the twelfth-century renaissance of classical thought when it comes to Aristotle, less attention is typically given to his use of Roman Hellenistic philosophy and Greek Neoplatonism. This course is devoted to analysis of how Aquinas developed key elements of his ethics and philosophical psychology, as well as some of his metaphysics, from Roman and Greek authors including Cicero, Seneca, Augustine, and Ps-Dionysius in addition to Aristotle.
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4.8 / 5
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4.3 / 5
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~3
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Spring 2023
1 section