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"Human nature has led by things corporeal and sensible to things spiritual and intelligible...Divine Wisdom...fittlingly provides man with means of salvation, in the shape of corporeal and sensible signs that are called sacraments." Priests alone are given the Key of Order which "directly" reaches heaven "by remitting sin and thus removing the obstacles to entrance."
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Aquinas
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"with the eye of my soul I saw above my mind the unchangeable light."
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Augustine
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"..by renunciation I was led upwards to that divine Darkness. It is revealed to those who pass right through the opposition of fair and foul. The true initiate is punged into darkness of unknowing."
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Dionysuius
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"It seems that there are ten heavens of which that of Venus is the third. Substances seperate from matter, that is intelligences, whom the common people call Angels...Certain philosophers, among whom seem to be Aristotle, believed that there were only as many as these intelligences as there were ciculations of the heavens...Others like plato, a most excellent man, maintained there are as many intelligences as there are kinds of things...and they say that as the intelligences are generators of the heavenly motions each....
Therefore, Contemplative life "is more excellent and more divine" than the active life |
Dante
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"On Heresy"
If a heretic is stubborn after a 2nd admonition then "deliver him to the secular tribunal to be exterminated" |
Aquinas
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The office of the knight is to maintain and defend the holy faith catholic, and women, widows, orphans , and weak and diseaed men. The sword is like the cross.
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Ramon Lull(y)
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"Turn your eyes away from Laura and the world of change." "Extinguish all passions, meditate on death, and perpetually recollect your mortal nature."
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Petrarch
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Speaking of Cosimo de Medeci "So great was his knowledge of all thin gs taht he could find some matter of discussion with men of all sorts [e.g. on literature theology, philosophy] and astrology of which he had complete knowledge...indeed he put faith in it, and always made use of it it in his affairs.[ and he was a patron of musicians] painters, and sculptors and had in his house work of divers masters. He was especially inclined towards sculpture and showed great favour to all worthy craftsmen, being a good friend of Donatello and all sculptors and painters and because in his time the sculptors found scanty employment he would commission them as he did Donatello....He ordered the bank to pay every week enough money to donatello for his work and that of his four assistants...Cosimo was always liberal, especially to men of merit.
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Vepasiana da Bistici
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Fortune brings men to the top of the wheel and then turns them to the bottom.
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Vasari
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"Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit."
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Mirandola
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"Beasts and treest grow, men are fasioned"
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Erasmus
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"A great miracle, Aesclepius, is man."
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Mirandola
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Two chains bind the soul: Love and Glory.
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Petrarch
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The most harmful and destructive force against the arts was the zeal of the new christian religion
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Vasari
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3 things determine progress
1.Nature: What you bring into life 2.Training: Education 3.Practice |
Erasmus
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One "Cannot just rest upon one's birth." "Learning is an essential part of nobility."
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Peacham
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The painter must know geometry and make light and shade his principal study. To know Beauty: collect the best parts of the most lovely bodies. Platonist in his way of thinking
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Alberti
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"The foundation of true learning must be laid in the sound and thorough knowledge of latin: which implies study marked by a broad spirit, accurate scholarship, and careful attention to details."
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Bruni
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"Let religion and morals, therefore, hold the first place in the education of a christian lady."
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Bruni
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"..the careful study of the past enlarges our foresign in contemporary affairs...From history we draw our store of examples of moral precepts"
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Bruni
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"Plato and Aristotle...were not Christians indeed, but consistence of life and abhorrence of evil existed before Christianity and are independent of it."
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Bruni
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"The eye errs less than the [mind]"
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Da Vinci
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"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and that are not tested by experience.
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Da Vinci
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"I [folly] am imitated by all classes of society...The merchants however are the biggest fools of all. They carry on the most sordid business and by the most corrupt methods. Whenever it is necessary ,they will lie, perjure themselves, steal, cheat, and mislead the public. Nevertheless they are highly respected because of their money. There is no lack of flattering friars to kowtow to them and call them right honorable in public.
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Erasmus
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"I think myself most happy that it is my chance to be called to examination before your reverence."
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Bilney
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"I do exceedingly rejoice, that it is so foreseen by god's divine providence, that I should be brought before the tribunal seat of Tonstal."
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Bilney
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"these are they...who, under the pretence of persecuting heretics, follow their own licentious lives; enemies unto the cross of Christ...these men profess they know christ, but by their deeds they deny Him"
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Bilney
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"Of this sacrament [Ordination] the church of Christ knows nothing; it was invented by the chuch of the Pope."
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Luther
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"We do everything by necessity and nothing by free choice"
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Luther
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"God foreknows and predestines all things, that he can neither be mistaken in his foreknowledge nor hindered in his predestination, and that nothing takes place but as He wills it."
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Luther
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"The minister with the churchwardens maketh a circuit from house to house...to house to examine the states of their lives."
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Northampton, England.
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4 errors of grasping truth
Two modes of quiring knowledge: reasoning &experience |
Roger Bacon
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"... without experience nothing can be sufficiently known."
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Roger Bacon
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"The different ways in which people are caught up to see many things of which it is not lawful for a man to speak."
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Roger Bacon
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No lectures should be given on those parts of books of humane letters which are contrary to virtue. The csociert may use the rest as the "Spoils of the Egyptians". The works of Christians, even though they may be good are not to be read if the author is bad.
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Ignatius Loyola
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"The punishment was most deservedly inflicted on Servetus At Geneva"
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Beza
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"Scarcely, therefore, were the ashes of that unhappy man cold when questions began to be agitated concerning the punishment of heretics - some maintaining that they ought indeed to be coerced, but could not justly be put to death; others...maintaining that heretics ought to be left to the judgement of god only. This opinion was defended even by some good men, who were afraid that if a different view were adopted they might seem to sanction the cruelty of tyrants against the godly."
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Beza
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"In Geography the Ancients were exceedingly defective"
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Glanvill plus ultra
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"They knew not that the earth was encompassed by the sea, and might be sailed round"
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Glanvill plus ultra
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"They didnt know the true dimension of the earth"
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Glanvill plus ultra
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"Having become aware of these defects [anomalies], I often considered whether there could perhaps be a more reasonable arrangement of circles...and how it could be solved with fewer and much simpler constructions"
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Copernicus
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"All the spheres revolve about the sun...and therefore the sun is the center of the universe."
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Copernicus
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"I treat the earth's immobility as due to an appearance."
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Copernicus
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"I profess to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from the positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature"
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William Harvey
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Four Idols besetting men's minds:
1.Tribe, 2. Cave, 3. Marketplace, 4. Theater |
Sir Francis Bacon
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"Our only hope...lies in true induction"
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Sir Francis Bacon
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"Natural philosophy is the great mother of the sciences."
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Sir Francis Bacon
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority
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Sir Francis Bacon
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"our minds are not made as large as truth, not suited to the whole extent of things."
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Locke
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"We have no reason to complain that we do not know the nature of the sun or stars...light itself leaves us in the dark... since, if we knew them they would be of no solid advantage to us, nor help make our lives the happier, they being but the useless employment of idle or over-curious brains, which amuse themselves about things out of which they can by no means draw any real benefit."
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Locke
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"occult qualities: it is to tell us nothing."
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Newton
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"The method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of Composition. This analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction."
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Newton
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"It appears that nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words."
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Galileo
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"It is authority alone that can enlighten us. But it is in theology that this authority has greatest eight."
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Pascal
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Where things are subject to senses and reasoning, then authority is unnecessary
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Pascal
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"...who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, god's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye....Slays an immortality rather than a life."
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Milton
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"Let truth and falsehood grapple"
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Milton
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"...The power of kings...is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them, without a violation of their natural birthright."
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Milton
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Simplest theory possible
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Occam razor
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What exists
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Ontology
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How we come to know
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Epistemology
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Forms
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Plato
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Senses
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Aristotle
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Also known as Polymath and Universal man
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Renaissance man
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Grammar
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Trivium
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Dialect(logic)
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Trivium
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Rhetoric
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Trivium
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Arithmatic
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Quadrivium
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Harmonics
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Quadrivium
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Geometry
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Quadrivium
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Spherics(Astronomy)
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Quadrivium
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Nature's winding number
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137.5
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Leaf arrangement
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Phyllotaxis
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0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233...
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Fibbonacci numbers
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"Whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat...i think hence I am"
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Descartes
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"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:--How comes it to be furnished?...To this I answer in one word from EXPERIENCE"
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Locke
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"Faith can never convince us of anything that contradicts our knowledge."
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Locke
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"No one doubts neither philosopher nor heathen nor jew nor christian nor any other sect that they [these creatures ] are full of blessedness...most perfect."
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Dante
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