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Some students enrolled in this course have requested recommendations of readings in preparation for our work in Fall 2021. In what follows, I provide some suggestions.
The syllabus is available at: http://richardctaylor.info/detailed-weekly-assignments-2021/.
These are valuable materials from my previous graduate class relevant to our Fall 2021 course. Some links to video lectures are embedded in these pages.
http://richardctaylor.info/lecture-1-of-5/
http://richardctaylor.info/lecture-2-of-5-30-august-2020/
If you are not very familiar with Aristotle:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-psychology/
For a more substantial modern account of Aristotle, see Christopher Shields, Aristotle, New York, & Oxon: Routledge, 2007. For an overview of conceptions of the soul in ancient Greek thought:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-soul/
If you are not very familiar with Aquinas:
For an overview, see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/. This other overview online is also valuable: https://iep.utm.edu/aquinas/.
These are more rigorous and detailed, so also very valuable:
Pasquale Porro, Thomas Aquinas: a historical and philosophical profile. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. This is available online or for download at the Marquette Library.
J.-P. Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, v. 1, The Person and His Work. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 1996.
Leo J. Elders, Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors. The Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
On the Arabic tradition that was invaluable in the development of the thought of Aquinas:
Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy, P. Adamson & R. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: CUP. 2005). Available online via Marqcat.
This article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is also available but wait a bit before reading it. I am in the process of updating the entry: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-mind/.
Let this suffice for the present. If you would like more, email me at Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu.