Teaching Materials on Medieval Philosophy

John Kilcullen

Medieval Philosophy: An Introduction
Greek Philosophical Background

Reading guides and lectures
These courses were taught using audio cassette tapes and printed reading books. The reading books contained photocopied extracts from translations of medieval philosophers. The method was to play the cassette, pressing the pause button from time to time to read another segment of text from the reading book. The cassettes gave a detailed commentary on the text. The reading guides below are (mostly) transcripts of the audio cassettes.

Boethius, Consolation  (The Consolation of Philosophy, tr. V.E. Watts (Penguin, 1969).)
Boethius on Porphyry (Richard McKeon (ed.), Selections from Medieval Philosophers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons).)|
The Essential Augustine (ed. V.J. Bourke, Hackett, 1974)
Anselm, Monologion (J. Hopkins and H.W. Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1974).)
Anselm, Proslogion and Cur deus homo ( E.R. Fairweather, A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (London: SCM Press, 1956).)
Anselm, De concordia  (Anselm of Canterbury, The Major Works, ed. B. Davies and G.R. Evans (Oxford University Press, 1998), or Hopkins and Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury.)
Peter Abelard (Peter Abelard's Ethics, tr. D.E. Luscombe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), and Abelard's "Glosses on Porphyry", in A. Hyman and J.J. Walsh (eds.), Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Indianapolis: Hackett).)
Abelard (cont.); Abbreviatio montana ( N. Kratzmann and E. Stump (eds.), Logic and the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).)
Al Ghazali and Averroes (Averroes, Tahafut al-Tahafut, translated S. van den Bergh (London: Luzac), and Hyman and Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages.)
Averroes, The Incoherence, thirteenth discussion (Averroes, Tahafut al-Tahafut, translated S. van den Bergh (London: Luzac)
Latin Culture in the 13th Century
Thomas Aquinas on God (Summa theologiae)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (cont.)
The Eternity of the World St. Thomas, Siger de Brabant, St. Bonaventure: On the Eternity of the World Cyril Vollert, S.J., Lottie Kendzierski, and Paul Byrne, Tr. (Marquette UP).)
Scotus on univocal concepts of God ( Hyman and Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages.)
Scotus's proof of the existence of an infinite being ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect (continued) ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect (concluded); the Formal Distinction ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on Universals ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus and Ockham on free will ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Ockham on Universals (William of Ockham, Philosophical Writings, ed. P. Boehner (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1957).)
Ockham on Relations. ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Ockham's Theory of Knowledge ( Hyman and Walsh, William of Ockham, Philosophical Writings (ed. Boehner), pp.22-4, and William of Ockham Quodlibetal Questions (ed. Freddoso), pp.413-7, 506-8. )

Closing Lectures
Medieval elements in Descartes (Descartes, Meditations)
Medieval elements in Berkeley, Locke and Hume

Lectures on Medieval Political Thought
From Aristotle to Augustine
Christianity and Greek Philosophy
Augustine City of God
Islamic Political Thought: Avicenna and Averroes
Islamic Political Thought: Ibn Khaldun
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship
John of Paris
Marsilius of Padua
William of Ockham, Short Discourse
William of Ockham, Eight Questions, Dialogue
Franciscus de Victoria