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On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
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Define 'medieval', 'Middle Ages' and 'medieval philosophy' in a meaningful way which serves to underline the importance of considering he Western intellectual tradition from Antiquity to the 14th century.
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Identify key thinks (and key texts by key thinkers) from the medieval period in Western thought and analyse their contribution to philosophy.
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Assess key problems (recurring themes of medieval philosophy: e.g. the problem of universals, the problem of representation, the problem of time and eternity, the problem of divine foreknowledge and future contingency, the soul-body problem, the mind-soul problem.
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Identify and assess key trends and key movements in medieval philosophy: e.g. Augustinism, Aristotelianism, Latin-Averroism, Illuminationism, Realism, Conceptualism, Nominalism.
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Discuss the complex issue of the 'sources' for medieval thought in Neoplatonism, in Aristotle, the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophical heritage and its influence on Western Christian thought in the Middle Ages.
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Identify the 'medieval in the modern', i.e. where elements of medieval thought may be discerned in patterns of philosophical thinking today.
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Demonstrate, through written and verbal communication skills, a philosophical appraoach to the meaningful reading of medieval thought from the standpoint of the present day.
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