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[FE 1006]  Philosophy of Nature I – 23.24

Semester I
wednesday 08:30 - 10:15

Course Information

Professor: DAVENPORT, Thomas
Email: xw [email protected]

Language: English

ECTS: 3
Schedule:
Semester I
wednesday 08:30 - 10:15

Content

This course aims to answer fundamental questions about nature. What are the common principles and causes underlying all natural things? It emphasizes the perennial notions of natural philosophy in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. We explain the process of change in mobile beings using concepts of act and potency. Next it studies the notions of substance and accidents. Lastly, we examine the notions of form and matter and the substantial synthesis

Bibliography

Bibliography :ARISTOTLE, Categories, Physics; THOMAS AQUINAS, Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, (In VIII libros Physicorum Expositio), translated by R. J. Blackwell, Notre Dame Indiana: Dumb Ox Books, 1999; W. A. WALLACE, The Modelling of Nature, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1996; D. MCINERNY, The Philosophy of Nature, Lincoln: The Alquin Press, 2001.; M. DODDS, The Philosophy of Nature, Oakland: Western Dominican Province, 2010