CHAPTER XV--THE MIDDLE AGES
(How does art mime the culture? How is the painting nominalistic
and realistic?)
CHAPTER XV--THE MIDDLE AGES
(How does art mime the culture? How is the painting nominalistic
and realistic?)
I. POST CARD TO HILDE C/O SOPHIE:
A. CLUE: “A WEEK OR TWO FOR SOPHIE DOES NOT HAVE TO MEAN THAT LONG FOR US.”
B. RELIGIOUS WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
(WHAT IS THE LESSON OF PHILOSOPHY???)
C. IS SOPHIE AWARE OF PHILOSOPHY'S LESSON? WHO KNOWS WHAT AND HOW? (P. 166)
II. HILDE KNOWS MORE ABOUT SOPHIE THAN SOPHIE KNOWS OF HILDE?: “Hilde’s father is
closing in on us...”
A. PHONE CALL--TERMINATION OF LETTERS
B. KEY FIGURE IS BERKELEY
C. MEETING AT THE CHURCH
D. SOPHIE LIES TO HER MOM ABOUT MEETING KNOX AT THE CHURCH
E. HOW IS HILDE'S FATHER CLOSING IN?
III. THE MEETING AT THE CHURCH AND THE "PHILOSOPHICAL CLOCK”
A. MIDDLE AGES = 4:
1-- 5 TO 7 AND 8 TO 10 = NOTHING (DARK AGES--IS THE TERM DARK AGES FAIR?)
2--11 TO 13-- HIGH GOTHIC = (CATHEDRALS)
3--14 HOURS--TRANSITION TO THE RENAISSANCE
B. 529--THE CLOSING OF PLATO’S ACADEMY
C. FEUDALISM-- “THE CANTERBURY TALES”
IV. THE THREE DIVISIONS OF THE OLD ROMAN EMPIRE
A. ROME---LATIN AND CHRISTIAN
B. CONSTANTINOPLE---GREEK CHRISTIANITY
C. ARABIA--MUSLIM CULTURE
V. THE ELEMENTS OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY:
A. NOMINALISM AND REALISM--THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS
B. FAITH AND REASON--WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF EPISTEMOLOGY?
C. PHILOSOPHERS:
1--AUGUSTINE - (430)- STOICISM - PLATO--IS THERE A CONTRADICTION?
a--HIS CITY OF GOD = CHURCH
b--WHO CAN BE SAVED? HOW?
c--DIVINE WILL DIRECTS MAN’S SALVATION HISTORY
2--AQUINAS - (1274) - ARISTOTLE:
a--TRANSLATIONS OF ARISTOTLE FROM GREEK AND ARABIC INTO LATIN
b--FAITH AND REASON ARE NEEDED: THE LOGIC OF ARISTOTLE
c--SCHOLASTICISM : THE SYLLOGISM: WILL ORDER CHURCH DOCTRINE
1--GOD’S EXISTENCE CAN BE PROVED = LOGIC
2--RECALL ARISTOTLE'S LAWS OF CAUSALITY
D--WE CAN KNOW GOD BY WHAT HE CREATES--See my British Literature web site: Note especially Troilus and Cressida (Renaissance) and Essay on Man (Neo-classical by Pope). A good secondary source is The Elizabethan World Picture by Tillyard.
VI. APPLICATION OF THE ABOVE TO THE PROBLEM SOPHIE MUST FACE...THE EXISTENCE OF HILDE:
A. POSTCARDS
B. SCARF
C. GREEN WALLET
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MIDDLE AGES AS THE 'DARK AGES'? WHY IS THE MIDDLE AGES AN INTELLECTUAL TURNING POINT? |
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VII. NOTICE THE INFLUENCE WORKING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY:
A. FROM PLATO TO AUGUSTINE--what is the metaphysics and epistemology?
B. FROM ARISTOTLE TO AQUINAS--what is the metaphysics and epistemology?
FOR ST. THOMAS...
IT WOULD BE WELL TO READ AQUINAS' SUMMA THEOLOGICA, THE SUPREME 'CATECHISM' OF THE CHURCH, AND ONE OF THE GREATEST INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE FUSION OF CATHOLICISM WITH ARISTOTLE.