Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy: Section 1

Medieval Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas

This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medieval philosopher Anthony Kenny discusses Aristotelian logic as the basis of Aquinas' thought, and disputes charges that medieval philosophy merely reinforced extant Christian views. Logical methods employed by Aquinas are discussed as precursors of the scientific methodology of later philosophers, such as Descartes.

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• Bryan
• Magee
• Anthony
• Kenny
• Philosophy
• Medieval
• Thomas
• Aquinas
• Aristotelian
• Logic

[RationalEmotive]

They don't do them like this anymore...

Just imagine THIS today on British television today instead of a report about Lucy Pinder's new boyfriend; no one would tune in.

I like tits :) but somehow I like this much better and learning to concentrate again would do TV audiences much good.

[rogermoore27]

This set of clips should be placed into a Play List.

[jessyjessy4]

very interesting video thanks

[Onieracraft]

@iiNDiTC

Oh and off topic, i was looking at your profile Did you know that the Islamic world introduced African Slavery to Europe? :)

[Onieracraft]

@iiNDiTC

This isn't about transmission, this is about ideas themselves. The Arabs did a good job of preserving Greek/ Roman Philosophy, but aside from Avicenna and Averroes (who are certainly discussed in any responsible Philosophy course) i don't think they brought much to the table in terms of pure Philosophical speculation

Ofcourse a Muslim was the father of Algebra but....this isn't a math video

[iiNDiTC]

Avicenna, al-Razi, Biruni, Khwarzami (inventory of Algebra), Omar Khayyam (calculated days of the year to 365), al-Kindi, Ibn-Arabi, Averroes, etc.

[iiNDiTC]

No mention of the influence of Islamic (Persian) science on Europe. Transmission of knowledge did not simply run from Greece to Europe. 

[scottvska]

Anthony Kenny looks like Brian Eno.

[deekspecial]

Thank you for posting this.

[GrabaPL]

Am I just watching lecture on Medieval Philosophy?

[Hobgoblin93ZZZ]

@jimbopumbapigsticks The problem to me is that everyone watches TV for entertainment (an effect of the cinema), and not to be educated. Thus we've lost television founding objective of giving people knowledge. I suppose QI comes close even if it is still very entertaining, a maybe is why many people watch it.

Its this problem that means will probably never see a programme on Adelard or Peter the Great, as no-ones heard of them, plus the problem the BBC is slowly bankrupting and closing itself.

[MahanaimCh]

The reason the world is so dark is because people actually believe this to be enlightening. I'm not talking about this conversation but about the ancient philosophy they're talk about. Matthew 6:23 NASB - [23] "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!