1 Introduction to Medieval Philosophy

In this video, Professor Thorsby offers an Introduction to a new series on the history of medieval philosophy.

[JRey-rerl]

Great introduction. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

[RealRemcool]

Love how you brake it down thanks 🙏🏼 it helps alot

[ДанилаГалечьян]

Hey, thank you so much for this lecture! It's really unique and helps me a lot with my studies. I also appreciate that you put the summary inside the slides - and all in all I really enjoy the content and the way you organize information

[wcropp]

This one should be fun...looking forward to it!

[sailatamang]

is it my device or the record, making the buzzing sound throughout the video?

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[multiversemagpie]

Great content but the glitchy audio buzz is an obstacle ..keeps giving me a headache.

[daniel]

Really enjoyed this lecture. The recording though has a lot of static noise which makes understanding you a little difficult at times, especially if one wants to increase the speed a little. Might you use a different mic in future videos? Even a 15 dollar plug in one. Thanks for making this great content freely available.

[GulfsideMinistries]

I had to stop the video at 38:15. The Trinity is NOT, repeat NOT, the notion "that God is three persons but actually just one person." All theologians would agree that is absurd. It is the notion that "in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another." Again, it is NOT that three persons are one person but rather three Persons subsist in one essential unity. If you get further into the technical discussions, you'd find that it is even a mistake to say that three persons are (or constitute one) God, as if God were *a* being (i.e., three beings are one being). This is because, as you note, God is unlimited, and that which is unlimited cannot be deemed to be "one" in the sense of defined as one vs another. We can speak of there being "one" God, but that's not to define Him as "a" being. That's a common error that most Christians in the pews even make, but it's one that philosophers ought not make, and as Aquinas will clarify later, this is further because God's essence does not fall within a genus, much less within a species. So the Latin here is not that God is an essence (not an esse) but rather is ipsum esse subsistens--Being Existing Within Itself.

But as for this video, please don't say that the Trinity was ever defined as three persons who were actually one person. That is a terribly misrepresentation of what those theologians and philosophers ever said. (It's also worth noting that Augustine and Anselm and all the rest were firm proponents of Divine Simplicity, and that this idea goes all the way back AT LEAST to Irenaeus in the second century and absolutely comes from the Greek tradition; so that's another reason they wouldn't recognize the idea of God being "a" Person in any meaningful sense).

Here's an easy reference with the definition provided:


Okay, resuming video. :)

Keep up the good work! I really enjoy watching/listening to your lectures.

[Notemaster]

Small correction: Peter Lombard wrote the Four Books of Sentences not Peter Abelard. Really enjoyed the lecture!

[MT-]

Wow... your sinus and mic makes a little bit difficult to follow. Pls. note that I love your voice, it is really beautiful.

[jeffalcalde]

Hi, Can you site all the sources of this concepts... Thank you, Comment here:

[renaldosimmons]

Colossians 2:8

"Beware lest any man spoil you through PHILOSOPHY and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."

Colossians 2:18

"Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...."

Such were the philosophers of the Dark Ages, including Augustine, vainly puffed up in their fleshly, carnal minds.

[shmstne]

Sorry, can't deal with the buzzing. I find it difficult to separate from your content.

[ozzy]

great content... 2/10 audio sadly spoils it

[renaldosimmons]

By using the term "Medieval" no fixed date can be given for the start of the period to which you refer.

The precise term is The Dark Ages, which began with the official ascension of the Roman Catholic Church to secular power, 538 AD.

By "Christian" is meant Roman Catholicism.

Augustine was NOT a Christian, but a Catholic, two irreconcilable and opposing systems.

[Cantbuyathrill]

Your room acoustics make 80% of your words unintelligible. I'm moving on to other videos on the same subject.