scholasticism

  • Medieval Semiotics

    Though โ€œsemioticsโ€ is a word coined only in the late 17th centuryโ€”and used consistently and meaningfully beginning only in the late 19thโ€”the study of signs and their actions goes back millennia. During those thousands of years, some of the most important contributions were made during the age often called โ€œMedievalโ€ (though it would be better…

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  • Introduction to Scholastic Latin

    Tuis ergo obsequiis, lector, si quis veritatis, non novitatis amator occurreris, haec quaecumque sunt, offerimus tuoque iudicio mancipamus, certi, quod si quid boni repereris, non nostrum esse, facile poteris apprehendere. Vale. John Poinsot, Cursus Philosophicus – โ€œLectoriโ€, Quarta Pars Philosophiae Naturalis The study of Scholastic Latinโ€”by which specifically we mean the Latin which emerged from…

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  • John Poinsot – Cursus Theologicus

    Cursus Theologicus The work of John Poinsot, also known as Joannes a Sancto Thoma (though as John Deely noted, his name has often been given in many other variations, across English, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, and Latin), has long been the victim of great neglect. His Cursus Philosophicus was critically-edited and published in the 1930s under the…

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  • Semiotics: The Tractatus de Signis of John Poinsot

    What is a sign? It is a deceptively difficult questionโ€”deceptive because we think we know when we have never bothered truly to ask the question. We believe that we see and hear signs everywhere: guiding our use of streets, telling us where to exit, the location of the bathroom, what dangers might lie ahead, and…

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  • Introduction to Philosophical Principles

    Philosophyโ€”real, true philosophyโ€”is transformative. It will not make you successful in the world, but it will answer a question that all the success and security never can: what is the good of being alive?

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  • IO2S Deely – Fonseca on Signs

    On 26 March 2022, Professor Antonio Manuel Martins presented “Fonseca on Signs”. Martins is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra and a member of both the Institute for Philosophical Studies and the Institut International de Philosophie. His main area of activity is Philosophy. His main research interests are: theories of justice; Ancient Philosophy;…

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  • IO2S Deely – Duns Scotus on Signs: Common Nature, Haecceity, and Signification

    On 16 January 2022 at 12pm ET/11am CT (5:00pm UTC – check times around the world here), Dr. Paniel Reyes Cรกrdenas (author of Scholastic Realism: A Key to Understanding Peirce’s Philosophy and many other works across a broad philosophical range) will present on the contributions of John Duns Scotus to the history of semiotics. As…

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  • Fall Seminars

    Fall Seminars Open for Enrollment: More than Aesthetics, The Meaning of Evil, and Metaphysics: God.

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