Syllabus
Break-down of the course
Week 1: Introduction to the concept of person in medieval philosophy
Week 2: Who’s Who: Edith Stein in context
Weeks 3-4: Thomas Aquinas on personhood and cognition
Weeks 5-6: Edith Stein on personhood and intentionality
Weeks 7-8: John Duns Scotus on individuals and individuum
Weeks 9-10: Edith Stein on the core of the person
Week 11: recapitulation
Week 12: to be determined
Annotation
SPRING TERM 2022
MA Module
Thursday, 14:10-15:45 P225 e-mail us for consultation or questions: anna.tropia@ff.cuni.cz, daniele.desantis@ff.cuni.cz
What is a person? From Antiquity to Modern Ages, philosophers have built such complex notion around concepts like those of substance, individual and rational being. In this course the same question will be studied in the answer provided by the phenomenologist Edith Stein (1891-1942), with a particular attention to the way she combines Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus with the ontological and phenomenological resources developed by Husserl and by the early phenomenological tradition.