Aree scientifico-disciplinari: M-FIL/08 Storia della Filosofia Medievale

Responsabile: Alessandro Palazzo

Docenti coinvolti: Alessandro Palazzo (Università di Trento)

Finanziato da: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Durata: 2014-2016

Descrizione: This project is intended to explore the cluster of problems pertaining to the dialectic determinism contingency as discussed in the works of a prominent thirteenth-century Dominican author: Albert the Great (ca. 1200-†1280) in relation to a few contemporaries (Ulrich of Strasbourg, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart). The investigation would focus particularly on three aspects of Albert’s teaching: his theory of future contingents at a logical level; his aetiological reflections on such concepts as neccessarium, ut in pluribus, accidens, fatum, fortuna, casus at the metaphysical and physical level; his analysis of the impact of heavenly effects on human beings at the level of biology and natural philosophy.