HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”

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0:00.0	Gile. I'm Peter Adamson.
0:21.0	Hi, I'm Peter Adamson and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at King's College London and the LMU in Munich, online at History of Philosophy. net.
0:32.0	Today's episode, Secondary. online at history of philosophy dot net.
0:33.0	Today's episode, Secondary Schools, Iberian scholasticism.
0:40.5	In my day job at the LMU in Munich, I often hold lectures in German for large groups of students.
0:46.0	I always warn them at the beginning of the semester that my approach to the German language will be somewhat creative,
0:52.0	and that in the unlikely event they are bored by the philosophy
0:55.2	they can keep themselves engaged by enjoying my random assignment of grammatical genders to the nouns
1:01.8	but apart from that my teaching method is pretty traditional.
1:05.0	In an age of PowerPoint presentations and hybrid learning environments, I stick with the good old one-page handout.
1:12.0	My thinking here is that if the students have a written outline of the
1:15.4	lecturer's main points, they won't have to take so many notes so they can focus better on the
1:20.0	ideas. Just how old-fashioned is this approach? Well, the same strategy was devised in the middle of the 16th century.
1:28.0	In 1561, the Jesuit Geronimo Natal proposed creating a series of text that would relieve students from the need to copy out
1:35.9	what their lecturers were saying. This would help them to engage more actively and also
1:40.4	ensure greater unity of instruction.
1:43.8	When this plan came to fruition,
1:45.4	the result was a lot more impressive than a few one-page handouts.
1:48.8	Indeed, it was among the most remarkable publishing ventures of early modern philosophy, the Quimbra commentaries, named for the
1:56.2	Portuguese city of Quimbra, where Jesuits taught in the College of Arts.
2:00.9	The course of lectures that was the basis of the commentaries was also offered at the University of Evura, run by the Jesuits since its founding in 1551.
2:09.0	The commentaries appeared in 8 volumes from 1592 to 1606 and were devoted to the works of Aristotle.
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