Inedita, t. 9: Historia filozofii średniowiecznej

Volume nine of "Inedits" contains lectures on the history of medieval philosophy, which Kazimierz Twardowski delivered at Lvov University in 1896-1931. The text of the book was reconstructed and edited on the basis of manuscripts and typescripts found in the Kazimierz Twardowski Archive (AKT) in Warsaw. Five lecture series were developed based on them.. The first series is the lectures of 1896, constituting the medieval part of the lecture on the whole history of philosophy (AKT P.1,1 ), the ancient part of these lectures is in volume five of "Inedits". The second text (AKT P.2,4) is from the academic year 1900/1901 and covers the period from Philo to the ninth century. The third is the history of scholastic philosophy (AKT P.2,5), which is a continuation of the previous lectures and is from the same academic year. The fourth text is a late lecture, dating from 1930/1931, and deals with Thomas Aquinas and the final period of the philosophy of the Middle Ages (AKT P.4,1). The last text is a brief, very concise outline of the entire history of medieval philosophy, and dates from the academic year 1902/1903 (AKT P.4,2). In his book “On Medieval Philosophy, Six Lectures” (1910), Twardowski stated that the Middle Ages basically did not enrich human thought with any new content. The positive and essentially only role of the Middle Ages was to save ancient culture and transplant knowledge via faith from the ancient era into modern times. Despite this harsh judgment, the content of the lectures shows that Twardowski valued many medieval philosophers, especially those such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.