
HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is Consciousness Just a Matter of Choice?
The notion that we have nowadays of the will as being a faculty of choice and decision. That's very much a mediaeval notion, was ter forge during the middle ages. Can modern people who do philosophy of mind learn a lot from reading the mediaevals on the subject? Yes, they could. There is lots of speculation and interesting suggestions on the topic. E figureif we take a richly articulated mediaeval apparatus and add to it scientific research, we might actually come near, dare we say, the truth about these things.
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