Reason and faith : philosophy in the Middle Ages

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Content: Lecture 1. Faith seeking understanding -- Lecture 2. Augustine's Platonic background -- Lecture 3. Augustine on authority, reason, and truth -- Lecture 4. Augustine on the origin of evil -- Lecture 5. Boethius's The consolation of philosophy -- Lecture 6. Boethius on foreknowledge and freedom -- Lecture 7. Anselm and the 11th-century context -- Lecture 8. Anselm's proof that God exists -- Lecture 9. Anselm on the divine attributes -- Lecture 10. Anselm on freedom and the fall -- Lecture 11. Abelard on understanding the Trinity -- Lecture 12. Abelard on understanding redemption -- Lecture 13. The rediscovery of Aristotle -- Lecture 14. Bonaventure on the mind's journey into God -- Lecture 15. Aquinas on what reason can and cannot do -- Lecture 16. Aquinas's proof of an unmoved mover -- Lecture 17. Aquinas on how to talk about God -- Lecture 18. Aquinas on human nature -- Lecture 19. Aquinas on natural and supernatural virtues -- Lecture 20. Scotus on God's freedom and ours -- Lecture 21. Scotus on saying exactly what God is -- Lecture 22. What Ockham's razor leaves behind -- Lecture 23. Ockham on the prospects for knowing God -- Lecture 24. The 14th century and beyond.