Learning Outcomes:
* learn how to engage critically with unfamiliar theoretical concepts
* engage with texts rarely studied by scholars today
* reflect on philosophical themes from a long-term historical perspective
* appreciate the cultural diversity explored in these texts
Indicative Module Content:
The aim of the course is to show that the study of unduly ignored authors is not only important for understanding the conceptual (successful) innovations of thinking in general, but also essential for grasping the differences between these innovations in respect to their diverse background (paganism, Eastern and Western Christianity, Islam and Judaism).
The module will introduce key philosophical topics recovered by modern thinkers, such as primary and secondary causality, individual thinking, nominalism and realism, being, nothingness etc.