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42 Cards in this Set
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Historicize
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place in a historical context
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Otium
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rest; cultivation of mind; peace(Plato)
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Negotium
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unrest; idleness, futility, uselessness:Plato
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Bios Theuretikos
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“life of the mind” i.e. contemplative life: Plato's precondition for happiness
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Eudaimonia
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supreme happiness: Aristotle says we reach Eudaimonia when we reconcile the contemplative and active life
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Aletheia
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truth; unhidden; unconcealed: Plato talks about with Allegory of the Cave
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Dialectic
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dialogue: Plato
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Prudence
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knowing how to act well in the world (active virtue): Cicero
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Rhetoric
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convincing through persuasion: Cicero
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Kathekon
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appropriate behavior in accordance with nature; reconciling human action with human nature: Cicero
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Polis
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classical philosophy/concepts: Augustine rewrites Polis
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Happiness
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only become happy when union with God is achieved: Augustine
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Christianization
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transformation of classical philosophy to Christianity: Augustine
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Anchoress
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female hermit; enclosed in cells outside churches; extreme contemplation: Julian
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Affective piety
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religious experience with your own personal traits (Julian of Norwich)
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Compassion
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co-suffering; feeling suffering; feel pain as if it’s your own; “inner Christ”: Julian was experiencing the passion of the Christ
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“One-ing”
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unity with God; transcending material world; breaking down of boundaries (Julian of Norwich)
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“Nought-ing”
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experience; to turn something into nothing; “substantially oned”: Julian of Norwich
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Carthusian
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semi-cloistered solitary men: More was deciding between being a carthusian or a wordly man.
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Enclosure
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physical world enclosed by spiritual world: Julian
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Love
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the thing with which we are incomplete without: Julian
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Grazia
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grace; graceful(personal quality); be in good graces(social status); pardon/mercy(social order); grace of God(divine plentitude): Castiglione
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Sprezzatura
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doing with a showy effort; perform so convincingly that it doesn’t seem like a performance: Castiglione
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Imitatio
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we become better by imitating past classical texts (“imitation”): Castiglione says we improve ourselves through Imitatio
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Humanism
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study of humanities (based on reading/writing, reviving classical texts)
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Laity
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unpaid people in public service and study of humanities: During the humanist era literacy spread to the laity
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Self
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all leisure (and no work): More- Why raphael proposed the solution between self and society.
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Interiority
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enables one to work mind; place where inner mind resides: Hamlet
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Agency
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ability to act freely: Hamlet
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Representation
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having something stand for something else: Hamlet- play within a play
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Oedipus Complex
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subconscious desire to kill one’s father and marry one’s mother: Hamlet movie
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Point of View
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perspective; “bounded-ness” of vision; interpretation of reality: Hamlet movie
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Action Hero
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Social hero whose insanity drives him to noble action (ie Mel Gibson), outsider to society who tries to better it through action : Hamlet movie
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Wonder
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Seed of knowledge, broken knowledge, closest thing to divine knowledge (Bacon)
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Natural Philosophy
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Science, observational/empirical, not yet separated from Humanities (Bacon)
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Scientia
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Knowledge (in general, as an entity) (Bacon)
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Royal Society
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Scientific society founded in 1600's on principles laid down in New Atlantis (Bacon)
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Science Fiction
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Genre of literature that defamiliarizes the familiar, takes advantage of wonder (Bacon)
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Interpretation
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Converting experience into knowledge (generalizing experience) (Bacon)
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Experience/Experiment
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Synonymous for Bacon => Perceptions, what is gathered through the senses (Bacon)
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Genre
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Type of writing (what genre was "she-Anchoret"?) (Cavendish)
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Ascesis
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Disregard of material life in order to reach a more spiritually transcendent awareness (Cavendish)
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