11 Facts About Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Medieval philosophy, understood as a project of independent philosophical inquiry, began in Baghdad, in the middle of the 8th century, and in France, in the itinerant court of Charlemagne, in the last quarter of the 8th century.

Medieval philosophy is primarily a theologian and a devotional writer, but much of his writing is philosophical.

Medieval philosophy's themes are truth, God, the human soul, the meaning of history, the state, sin, and salvation.

For over a thousand years, there was hardly a Latin work of theology or Medieval philosophy that did not quote his writing, or invoke his authority.

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Medieval philosophy became consul in 510 in the kingdom of the Ostrogoths.

Medieval philosophy intended to translate all the works of Aristotle and Plato from the original Greek into Latin, and translated many of Aristotle's logical works, such as On Interpretation, and the Categories.

Medieval philosophy wrote commentaries on these works, and on the Isagoge by Porphyry.

Medieval philosophy is notable for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius, initially thought to be from the apostolic age.

Medieval philosophy included most of the areas originally established by the pagan philosophers of antiquity, in particular Aristotle.

However, from the fourteenth century onward, the increasing use of mathematical reasoning in natural Medieval philosophy prepared the way for the rise of science in the early modern period.