Gile. Yes, I'm Peter Adamson.

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. Today's episode will be an interview about Jesuit philosophy of mind with Anna Tropia, who is assistant professor of philosophy at Charles University in Prague. Hello Anna.

Hi Peter. Thanks so much for coming on the podcast.

Thanks for having me.

It's such great pleasure.

We have been talking about scholastic philosophy in the counter-reformation in the last few episodes.

Especially I talked already about the Jesuits and about the Dominicans with their

revival of Aquinas. I also mentioned the Franciscans a little bit. For example, I mentioned

cognizizneros who founded the University of Al-Qala. And so we've seen the various

orders here, but I'm not sure that the listeners would yet have a really distinct

feel of what differentiates the orders from each other, especially in terms of their philosophical

commitments. Could you say something about the Jesuits in this respect?

Like is there anything distinctive about their approach to scholastic philosophy?

Sure, that's a very good question and this is also a question that often comes up when talking

about this with scholasticism what makes it distinctive what differentiates

them from other thinkers religious religious thinkers, such as Mexicans, whom you mentioned of

Dominicans.

Well, a lot of things come to my mind because I am a specialist of Jesuit thought and although I still think that every

Jesuit somehow is a word in itself so there I think about them as all distinct thinkers.

And there are two concepts that easily would come to my mind.

I would say erudition and eclecticism.

These are like two very large labels so I have to explain a little bit what I want to say.

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