Medieval Aristotelian Natural Science

Nice introduction to (Aristotelian) natural science in the medieval periode here.https://t.co/nPbZEZl2Sx https://t.co/2UL58h771E

— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) July 30, 2020

The Scholasticum: Annuario Academico 2016-17

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The Human Dignity Canard

Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World by S. Adam Seagrave

We may, nevertheless, recognize a grain of truth in the moderns’ appreciation of the moral status of the individual human being. That appreciation coheres well with Christian moral theology but not with pre-modern moral and political philosophy. The moderns’ mistaken rejection of the unchanging objective contexts within which the individual exists led, in the thought of a select few, to a more profound understanding of human dignity than is available in any of the pre-moderns—including Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Locke’s nuanced and complex understanding of natural rights, in particular, provides an important philosophical elaboration on the Biblical account of humankind’s creation “in the image and likeness” of God. In tomorrow's article, I will examine this concept in greater depth.

Do we need a concept of dignity in order to have a full account of human flourishing and man's ultimate end? Or to explain the basis of charity or justice? I don't think so.

Medieval Political Philosophy

Post by NovAntiqua.

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The Smithy mentions a forthcoming book, Later Medieval Metaphysics
Ontology, Language, and Logic, and quotes an author of one of its essays, Terence Parsons, for his definition of medieval logic:

The first task is to decide what to count as medieval logic. Medieval logic consists of centuries of work by some very smart people working in a difficult area. I will be libertine about what is included in medieval logic. If any medieval logician ever said it, and if it is worthwhile, it is part of medieval logic.

It is rather circular, if a medieval logician is someone who writes about medieval logic. But Parsons probably refers to commentaries on the texts of Aristotlte and so on instead.

Something from 1936? Any updates in scholarship since then? St. Isidore and mediaeval science by Floyd Seyward Lear

Two from Medievalist.net

The Making of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae - Bernard McGinn



Science and the Medieval University

The Smithy: Marilyn Adams on History of Philosophy and A Definition of Scholasticism

Intellectual history as the sophomore's philosophy

Robert Barron on Univocity and Voluntarism

Why reason when doing genealogy is so much easier?