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
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
In his Summa Contra Gentiles (1261-63), Aquinas provides “probable and demonstrative arguments” on the light of glory’s ontological status and its attainment by the human intellect. Unlike his Latin predecessors Alexander of Hales and... 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
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organized by: Andrea A. ROBIGLIO (Leuven) and Richard C. TAYLOR (Milwaukee-Leuven), in collaboration with the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’... more
- by Katja Krause
Among historians of philosophy and science, Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) is well-known for his scientific outlook on animals. His mature commentary on the De animalibus (after 1258) has been praised for its revival of a scientia de... more
Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung: Werke der mittelalterlichen Philosophie (SoSe 2016), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Philosophie, Dienstags 18:00-20:00 Uhr, Raum A301, Bismarckstraße 1
Most ancient Greek and Arabic Peripatetic works following the footsteps of Aristotle’s De anima and Ethica Nicomachea stood at odds with key aspects of the traditional Christian doctrines of the human soul, intellect, and ultimate... more