Kurs: Melancholy and philosophy: images of a longue-durée association

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Select section Allgemeines

Allgemeines

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- Select activity TEXTS
  
  TEXTS Forum
- Select activity Pseudo-Aristotle, Problem XXX.1 (from Saturn and Melancholy)
  
  Pseudo-Aristotle, Problem XXX.1 (from Saturn and Melancholy) Datei
  
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- Select activity Marsilio Ficino, Carol V. Kaske, John R. Clark - Three Books on Life (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) (1989)
  
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- Select activity Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl - Saturn and melancholy studies in the history of natural philosophy, religion and art -Kraus Reprint (1979)
  
  Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl - Saturn and melancholy studies in the history of natural philosophy, religion and art -Kraus Reprint (1979) Datei
  
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- Select activity Ps. Hippocrates, Epistula ad Damagetem
  
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- Select activity Michel de Montaigne, John M. Cohen, John M. Cohen - Montaigne Essays-Penguin (only a selection)Books (1993)
  
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- Select activity Ficino - Three Books on Life: Complete Essays
  
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- Select activity Montaigne Michel de - Essays
  
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- Select activity Philip L. Sohm - Dürers Melencolia I. The Limits of Knowledge
  
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- Select activity Wojciech Balus - Dürers Melencolia I. Melancholy and the Undecidable
  
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- Select activity Freud - Mourning and Melancholia
  
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- Select activity Montaigne and Melancholy pt 1
  
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- Select activity Montaigne and Melancholy pt 2
  
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- Select activity Immanuel Kant - Essay on the Maladies of the Head
  
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- Select activity Emily Brady - Melancholy as an Aesthetic Emotion
  
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- Select activity Andrew Crislip - The Sin of Sloth or the Illness of the Demons. The Demon of Acedia in Early Christian Monasticism
  
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- Select activity Mark J. Larrimore - Substitutes for Wisdom. Kants Practical Thought and the Tradition of the Temperaments
  
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Select section 25. 2. Introduction: the original connection between genius and melancholy. Pseudo-Aristotle, Problem XXX.1

25. 2. Introduction: the original connection between genius and melancholy. Pseudo-Aristotle, Problem XXX.1
Select section 3. 3. The sources of Problem XXX.1: the medical theory of the humors and Democritean moods

3. 3. The sources of Problem XXX.1: the medical theory of the humors and Democritean moods
Select section 10. 3. Hippocrates visits the mad Democritus: Letter to Damagetes no. 17

10. 3. Hippocrates visits the mad Democritus: Letter to Damagetes no. 17
Select section 17. 3. Acedia and Sadness: Thomas Aquinas’ synthesis

17. 3. Acedia and Sadness: Thomas Aquinas’ synthesis
- Select activity Acedia, the sorrow of the world
  
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  Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, IIa IIae, q. 35. English Translation by
  
  Alfred Freddoso, from his online and fully avalaible translation of entire ST (in progress)
  
  https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm
- Select activity Aquinas, ST Ia IIae q. 35: on sadness
  
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  This text is extract from Thomas Aquinas' "Treatise on the passions of the soul"
  
  and brings on sadness. It is interesting to contrast it with the question on acedia,
  
  which is not a passion but a mortal sin.
- Select activity st2-2-ques35(1)
  
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- Select activity 10.3.Misery is the river of the world
  
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- Select activity Accidia and capital sins
  
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Select section 24. 3. Aquinas continued

24. 3. Aquinas continued
Aňeska's presentation
- Select activity Aquinas IIa IIae q. 28: what is the contrary of acedia?
  
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  This text offers the sharpest contrary to acedia, namely spiritual joy.
Select section 31. 3. Genius and philosophy. Ficino in the wake of ancient wisdom

31. 3. Genius and philosophy. Ficino in the wake of ancient wisdom
- Select activity Ficino, How to avoid black bile
  
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- Select activity Ficino, on Black Bile
  
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Select section 7. 4. Ficino as a melancholic. Doing philosophy in first person

7. 4. Ficino as a melancholic. Doing philosophy in first person
As referential biliography, please check the 2 PDF in the upper part of Moodle

of the beautiful book "Montaigne and Melancholy" by Michael Screech
Select section 14. 4. Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I: reading seminar (analysis of the chapter on Dürer in Saturn and melancholy)

14. 4. Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I: reading seminar (analysis of the chapter on Dürer in Saturn and melancholy)
Presentation by Josefina Formanova
Select section 21. 4. Michel de Montaigne. The study of melancholy

21. 4. Michel de Montaigne. The study of melancholy
- Select activity Montaigne, I, 20. That Philosophizing is learning how to die
  
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- Select activity Spinoza, Ethica, IV, 66-7. Philosophizing is meditating about life
  
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- Select activity Matthew J. Kisner - Spinoza on Human Freedom Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life-Cambridge University Press (2011)
  
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- Select activity Spinoza, Ethica, complete text
  
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Select section 28. 4. Seminar by our guest, Dr. Serena Masolini, on acedia (the mortal sin of sadness)

28. 4. Seminar by our guest, Dr. Serena Masolini, on acedia (the mortal sin of sadness)
Select section 5. 5. Descartes nad the melancholic 17th century

5. 5. Descartes nad the melancholic 17th century
Select section 12. 5. Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia” and the historic turn towards melancholy as nostalgia

12. 5. Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia” and the historic turn towards melancholy as nostalgia
Presentation by Stjepan Krovinovic