MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

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Learning Outcomes

explain the leading problems of the philosophy of the Middle Age.
identify the original features of the philosophy of the Middle Age.
summarize the doctrines of Middle Age' philosophers and schools with chronological order.
define the fundamental concepts of the philosophy of Middle Age.
debate the philosophical views of the fathers of the churches especially Origenes, Justinus, Tertullianus, St. Augustinus in patristic and apolojik periods of Middle Age.
debate the effects of Christianity to philosophy.
identify and explain the leading philosophical problems of early Middle Age.
interpret some important works of St. Augustinus and question his peculiar thoughts
recognize the leading philosophers of the scholastic period of Middle Age like Abelardus, Anselmus, John Scotus Erigena, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus.
explain the philosophical views of John Scotus, Anselm and Abelard.
identify and explain the importance of Thomas Aquinas in terms of the philosophy of the Middle Age.
explain the philosophical views of Bonaventura and John Duns Scotus.
debate the emergence of Islamic philosophy through the philosophical views of Kindi, Razi, Farabi, İbn Sina, Gazali and İbn Rushd.
recognize and debate the early thinkers of Islamic philosophy like Kindi and Rhazes.
compare and debate the solution proposals of İbn Sina and Farabi to the some problems of Islamic philosophy like The God, free will, the eternity of the cosmos etc.
compare and debate the philosophical views of Gazali and İbn Rushd through some readings of their works called Tehafut.
debate the leading philosophical problems of the Middle Age.
recognize and debate the relationship between belief and knowledge.
question and debate the problem of Universaliae, its importance for all of history of philosophy and its effects to earlier and later period of the history of philosophy.
debate the relationship between human being-God-the Church and the problem of the free will of human being.