JPI 937
Causality and Retrieval of Interiority
The course is dedicated to the recovery of a philosophical sense of interiority. It will begin by distinguishing other forms and modes of inwardness: physical dissection, psychological introspection, artistic and literary character depiction, religious mysticism. The appreciation of a properly philosophical interiority has tended to fade out of contemporary consciousness, both in the popular as well as the learned culture, with important consequences for the culture at large. Readings will include texts from Avicenna, Matthew of Aquasparta, Duns Scotus, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Husserl, and Marcel.
