Philosophy 302:
Medieval Philosophy
San Francisco State University Spring 2007
Professor Michael Sudduth
Students, welcome to the spring semester 2007 at San Francisco State University. This website provides you with essential resources for Philosophy 302 - Medieval Philosophy. This site will be your main resource for study questions, handouts, supplemental readings, and information on assignments and exams. The site also has a link to the course syllabus (short version). It is crucial that you log on each week to check for updates.
University of Oxford
Course Calendar
Week 1: Plato: Doctrine of the Forms
and the Timaeus Creation Account
January 30 (T): Plato, Plato, Timaeus
Read 2-14
See Course Handouts, Introduction (Left)
February 1 (TH): Plato, Timaeus Continued
Week 2: Platonism and Neoplatonism
February 6 (T): Plotinus, Enneads
Read 5.1.1-5.1.8, 5.2.1-5.2.2
See Course Handouts on Platonism and Neoplatonism (Left)
February 8 (TH): Platonism and Christianity
Week 3: Augustine
(Hyman and Walsh Selection from Augustine, Confessions)
February 13 (T): Saint Augustine, Confessions Overview
Response Paper #1: What are two examples of the influence of Platonism in Augustine?
February 15 (TH): CLASS CANCELLED
Week 4: St. Augustine
(Anthony Kenny, Medieval Philosophy, pp. 1-15, 156-162, 176-180, 211-223, 278-283)
February 20 (T): Saint Augustine, Metaphysics of Creation and Time (Hyman and Walsh selection)
February 22 (TH): Saint Augustine
Week 5: St. Augustine
February 27 (T): TBA
February 29 (TH): TBA
Week 6: Exam on Greek Philosophy and Augustine?
Week 7: ----------------
Week 8: Boethius
March 13 (T): Boethius, Consolation
Hyman and Walsh, pp. 114-127
March 15 (TH): Boethius, Consolation
Hyman and Walsh, pp. 114-127
Kenny, pp. 16-22
Week 9: Boethius and Eriugena
March 20 (T): Boethius, How Substances can be Good. . .
Hyman and Walsh, pp. 128-131
Essay Response Question #2 on Boethius
March 22(TH): Eriugena,
Hyman and Walsh, pp. 132-146
Week 10: Eriugena and St. Anselm
March 27 (T): Kenny, pp. 23-32, 285-288
March 29 (TH): Anselm, Proslogion
Hyman and Walsh, pp. 147-155
Week 11: Anselm
Week 12: Spring Break
Week 13: Anselm
April 17 (T): Anselm
April 19 (TH): Anselm
Week 14: Exam and Avicenna
April 24 (T): Exam #2
April 26 (TH): Avicenna
Week 15: Avicenna and Maimonides
Week 17: Aquinas
Final Exam Due in class on Thursday, May 24 10:45am
The final exam will be e-mailed to the class on Friday May 11.
Course Handouts
Introduction
Platonism and Augustine
Boethius and Eriugena
St. Anselm
Islamic and Jewish Philosophers
The 13th Century
Other Relevant Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
