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[FL1807]  The De substantiis separatis of St. Thomas Aquinas

Semester I
thursday 16:30 - 18:15

Course Information

Professor: HOLTZ, Dominic
Email: [email protected]
Language: English

ECTS: 3
Schedule:
Semester I
thursday 16:30 - 18:15

Content

This course will explore one of the more mature and most creative metaphysical works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the De substantiis separatis. Although an unfinished work, this treatise is complete in its philosophical consideration of “separated substances,” i.e. the intelligences or, in theological language, the angels. We will read the whole of the philosophical section of the work (which amounts nearly to the whole), attending to questions both historical and systematic as they are raised by the text.

Bibliography

Bibliography: THOMAS AQUINAS, De substantiis separatis; TOBIAS HOFFMAN, ed., A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradtion vol. 35. Brill, 2012; ISABEL IRRIBAREN and MARTIN LENZ, eds., Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry, Ashgate, 2008; DAVID KECK, Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 1998