![]() ![]() ![]() tended to be elementary and directed either to basic information that every student must know. (Murdoch 1974: 274)Īrts courses in medieval universities, like their counterparts in the modern universities, namely the `service courses'. some of the very best - indeed, the best - philosophy was done by theologians and in their theological works (Scotus, Ockham, and Robert Holcot, for example). But it was brought into play early in this century by Konstanty Michalski, who wrote in 1923 that "the thought of philosophers of the Middle Ages is expressed above all in commentaries on the Sentences, especially in the first book, where one must take a position with regard to the most difficult problems in the domains of metaphysics and the theory of knowledge." More recently, it has been expressed, sometimes accompanied by disparaging remarks about philosophy in the Arts faculty, by a number of historians in the field. ![]() By comparison, the philosophy produced by thinkers who worked exclusively or primarily in the Faculty of Arts is seen as inferior - by which is usually meant that it is shallow, unsophisticated, immature, and driven by disparate curricular and pedagogical concerns rather than by the more single-minded commitment to rationally articulate that sacred doctrine which, as Aquinas says, "extends to things which belong to different philosophical sciences." The source or sources of this commonplace are not easy to trace, and much less interesting, I think, than its historiographical effects. It is a commonplace in the historiography of medieval philosophy that theology represents philosophy's culmination in the later Middle Ages, and specifically, that it is in the work of theologians and theologically-trained Arts Masters that we find philosophy in its purest and most advanced form. NDTLK Jack Zupko Philosophy Among the Artistae: A Late-Medieval Picture of the Limits of Rational Inquiry ![]()
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