Albert the Great on the Human Being

An Inter-disciplinary Colloquium

Imago Dei, Epistemology, Man as a social animal, Virtue and humand finality, Contemplation and beatitude

• Information

  When
  April 28-29, 2023

  Where
  University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Miséricorde 03, room 3115

  Translation
  Interventions in English, French and Italian, papers available in English

  Principal Organizer
  Bernhard Blankenhorn, Institut d'études dominicaines (IED), Theology Faculty (University of Fribourg)

  Co-organizer
  Katja Krause
  Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin)

  Co-sponsors
  The Thomistic Institute, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome)
  Swiss National Science Foundation

  Registration
  No registration needed.

• Programme

  Friday, April 28

  9,00 Welcome Addresses

  Session 1: Imago Dei
  9,15 Isabelle Moulin: Le vestige comme l’“autre” image chez Albert le Grand
  9,45 Sebastien Milazzo: L’imago Dei dans le traité De angelorum creatione
  10,15 Discussion

  10,45 Break

  Session 2: The Limits of Nature
  11,00 Fabio de Gregorio: Albert the Great’s Physics of the Human Soul in Judah Romano’s Commentary on Genesis 1,1-2,4 (1330)
  11,30 Amos Bertolacci: Strategies of Human Divinization: Avicenna and Albert the Great
  12,00 Discussion

  12,30 Lunch

  Session 3: Platonic Themes
  15,00 Alessandra Beccarisi: Neoplatonic Theories in Albert the Great’s Gospel of Matthew
  15,30 Dominic Dold: Albert the Great on Meno’s Paradox
  16,00 Discussion

  16,30 Break

  Session 4: Epistemology
  16,45 Paul D. Hellmeier: Of Bats and Eagles. What they See and what they Do Not See: Two Key Metaphors for Human Knowledge in Albertus Magnus
  17,15 Thérèse Scarpelli Cory: The Self-knowing Soul in Albert the Great
  17,45 Discussion

  18,30 End of Day 1

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  Saturday, April 29

  Session 5: Empirical Knowledge
  9,00 Katja Krause: Albert and Scientific Experience
  9,30 Paloma Hernández Rubio: Grasping the Naked Individual: Albert the Great on Common Sensation in De homine
  10,00 Discussion

  10,30 Break

  Session 6: The Social Animal
  11,00 Hans-Joachim Schmidt: Social Cohesion and the Defense of Private Life
  11,30 Bernhard Blankenhorn: L’homme en tant qu'être social et ecclésial selon Albert le Grand
  12,00 Discussion

  12,30 Lunch

  Session 7: Virtue and Perfection
  14,45 Tobias Hoffmann: Albert the Great’s Early Account of Prudence
  15,15 Tracy Wietecha: Becoming a Moral Subject: civilitas in Albert the Great’s Ethical Commentaries
  15,45 Discussion

  16,15 Break

  Session 8: God and Human Knowledge
  16,30 Franklin Harkins: Divine Providence and Human Knowledge in Albert’s Super Iob
  17,00 Meghan Duke: God’s Infinitude in Albert’s Thought on the Beatific Vision
  17,30 Discussion
  18,00 Concluding Remarks and Discussion of Future Steps

  18,30 End of the Colloquium

• Speakers

  Alessandra Beccarisi, Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italie
  Amos Bertolacci, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Italie
  Bernhard Blankenhorn, op, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Thérèse Scarpelli Cory, University of Notre Dame, USA
  Dominic Dold, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  Meghan Duke, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
  Fabio de Gregorio, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  Franklin Harkins, Boston College
  Paul D. Hellmeier, op, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
  Paloma Hernández Rubio, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexique
  Tobias Hoffmann, Sorbonne, Paris
  Katja Krause, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  Sebastien Milazzo, University of Strasbourg, France
  Isabelle Moulin, University of Strasbourg, France
  Hans-Joachim Schmidt, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Tracy Wietecha, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin