2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Rafionality in Western Medieval Scholastic Philosophy
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13610007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAZOE Shinsuke KYOTO UNIVERSITY Graduate School of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学研究科, 助教授 (90177692)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Scholastic Philosophy / Christian theology / rationality / Thomas Aquinas |
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| Research Abstract |
Philosophy has been taken to be inseparable from the concept of "rationality" from its beginning, while the scholastic philosophy in the West was situated in the world dominated by Christian religion. This historical situation might provoke a question: Does intellectual activity such as theology in the medieval West claim to be a "philosophy"? Could we find there the notion of rationally of which we couldn't doubt the existence in the Greco-roman classical period and the modern period after the 17th century?
In the context, the aim of this project consisted in exploring some aspects of the rationality which we could find in the scholastic theologies of the 13th century. The research has shown that even in the period the rationality has been taken to be a target to obtain by theologians, though the "Credo" as their stating point would, at first glance, seem to be contradictory to the notion of rationality. Furthermore, we could confirm the concept contained various types of great dimension, even though we couldn't analyze other theologies but the Westen scholastic in the 13th century.
These results of this project are just historical ones, so it still remains to consider, from the theoretical viewpoint, what kind of significances the concept of rationality has among contemporary philosophical problems and in front of our present socio-cultural situation.
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