Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Research Group Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body
In this paper I explore methodological approaches to Aquinas’ argument for a real distinction between essence and existence in creatures in De ente et essentia. Joseph Owens and John Wippel examine the text through three stages which,... more
In this paper I explore methodological approaches to Aquinas’ argument for a real distinction between essence and existence in creatures in De ente et essentia. Joseph Owens and John Wippel examine the text through three stages which,... more
Unlike any other Dominican theologian, Albert the Great wrote two commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. He composed his first commentary, Super Ethica, during the years 1250-1252 at the new Dominican House of Studies (studium... more
For Albertus Magnus, the attainment of civic happiness purifies and prepares a human being for the rigorous study of the sciences which is required to attain the ultimate happiness in this life, contemplative happiness. The acquisition... more
My project focuses on the prevalent knowledge networks between the institutions of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil and members of the Leopoldina in the seventeenth century. It investigates how members of the Leopoldina made, understood, and... more
Winter 2018 Course at LMU Munich This course will introduce students to Thomas Aquinas’s views on the nature and attainment of human happiness. After a general introduction to key philosophical issues in Thomas Aquinas, the course will... more
Fall 2020 Course at Bard College Berlin: Happiness is often defined as a chief goal of human life, or as a state that can be achieved when striving for external affirmation is relinquished. A look at past traditions of thought on the... more
This course provides a background and introduction to the history of debates within Latin American philosophy. We will think through the debates pertaining to the identity of the Native Americans. The course begins with pre-Columbian... more
Although Albert the Great (1200-1280) wrote two commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Super Ethica (ca. 1250-52) and Ethica (ca. 1262), his later ethical commentary is often neglected in studies of the secondary literature. Yet... more
Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 27.2 (2020): 222-226
In his Commentary on the Sentences (bk. 4 d. 49 q. 2 a. 1) and De Veritate (q. 8 a. 1), Aquinas declares that the right model for conceiving of the beatific vision is found in Averroes’ conjunction theory as presented in his Long... more
- by Katja Krause
Aquinas presents his earliest conception of human happiness in his commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, bk. IV d. 49 q. 1. In holding that happiness can only be had vis-à-vis God in the afterlife, he decidedly follows Latin tradition... more
Albert and Aquinas present beatitude in their Commentaries on the Sentences in strikingly different ways. While Albert’s theory of beatitude is an account purely based on theological conceptions and sources, Aquinas makes extensive use of... more
- by Katja Krause