The Arguments for and against the Eternity of the World in the Late Thirteenth Century: Aquinas, Peckham and Scotus.
הציבור מוזמן להרצאתו של Gyorgy Gereby במסגרת סמינר המחקר של מכון כהן להיסטוריה ופילוסופיה של המדעים והרעיונות, ביום ב, 13.5.2019, בשעה 18:00, בבניין גילמן, חדר 449, אוניברסיטת תל אביב.
כותרת ההרצאה:
The Arguments for and against the Eternity of the World in the Late Thirteenth Century: Aquinas, Peckham and Scotus.
תקציר:
The eternity of the world follows both from Aristotelian and Plotinian-Neoplatonic theological assumptions. As the philoso-phically (that is, scientifically) established standard view it contradicted the Judaic/Christian intellectual positions about the creation and a finite linear world-time. Various arguments were deployed against the eternalist position. During the second half of the thirteenth century, however, a complex debate emerged among various thinkers of High Scholasticism concerning the provability of a finite past. This talk will concentrate on the technically sophisticated debates of the late thirteenth century between Bonaventure, Aquinas, John Peckham and Duns Scotus. The subtle discussions highlight a number of important issues: the role of rational method in theology, the nature of the infinite (used in nearly every argument) and the role of counterfactual thought- experiments. As for the historical mind, it is a showcase for 1) the independence and creativity of scholastic thinkers, 2) for the problem of development, continuity and rupture in philosophy.
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