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28 Cards in this Set
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3 influences on the medieval world
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Greco-Roman
Christian Barbarian |
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Greco-Roman influcence on the Medieval world
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Emphasis on learning & reason
Abstract truth Natural law |
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Christian influcence on the Medieval world
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Personal God
The insitutional church God's law |
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Barbarian influcence on the Medieval world
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Adventure
Loyalty to liege lord Concrete, not abstract |
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Greco-Roman influence on the EARLY Medieval period
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Virtually disappeared
(Some learning centers Virtually universlly illiterate) |
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Christian influence on the EARLY Medieval period
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Asectic - run for the hills- monastaries
Denial of this world pray, convert, teach, copy manuscripts |
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Barbarian influence on the EARLY Medieval period
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Barbarians attacked Rome 406 on
Economic & social disorder |
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EARLY Medieval period church characteristics
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Romanesque Cathedral
Rounded arches, thick walls, small windows. Fortress-like Out in the boonies. |
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Greco-Roman influence on the LATE Medieval period
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Rise of the University
Rise of literacy Thinking about abstractions again Growing interest in Ancient Greek writers |
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Christian influence on the LATE Medieval period
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Begins to assert itself
Moves into all areas of life Emphasis on this world (rediscovery of Aristotle :D) |
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Barbarian influence on the LATE Medieval period
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Stability (attachment to land, feudal system, loyalty)
Nation-State |
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LATE Medieval period church characteristics
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Gothic Cathedral
Pointed arches, flyiing buttesses, higher, glass walls, center of town |
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Medieval Islam: historical background
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Plato's Academy's books went east;
translated into Arabic; Muhammad (610-632); 10th &11th centuries- astronomy & math; problem was reconciling learning(reason) with Qur'an(faith) |
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Medieval Islam: Avicenna
3 Reasonings, Problem, Conclusion |
Avicenna:
Reasonings: 1) Allah acts out of necessity 2) Allah works through intermediaries 3) Souls are immortal Problem: Contracts the Qur'an!!!!!!! Conclusion: Qur'an not to be taken literally, but metaphorically REASON |
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Medieval Islam: Al-Ghazali
Critique, Conclusion |
Critique of Avicenna
Conclusion: Have to take the Qur'an seriously FAITH |
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Medieval Islam: Averroes
Critiques, Types, Conclusion |
Avicenna: too Platonic
Al-Ghazali: Incoherent 3 Types of people: masses (simple-Qur'an literally), theologians (educated-draw inferences-understand Qur'an), philosophers (wise-deep allegorical meanings) Conclusion: Double-truth: both faith and reason are right. FAITH and REASON |
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Medieval Islam: Which thinker won?
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Al-Ghazali won
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Augustine- short bio?
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Thagaste, N Africa
Mother Christian & prayed endlessly, wild child, to Carthage Conversion (go read it) Ministry- wanted a monestary, but became bishop in Hippo |
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Augustine and Anthropology: 3 key themes
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The Imago Dei, The Will, The Fall
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Augustine & Anthropology: The Imago Dei
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People are originally good.
God's thoughts are in us (justice, beauty) Rationes Aeternae |
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Augustine & Anthropology: The Will
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The ability to choose
Part of the Imago Dei (unlike Plato & know good, do good) |
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Augustine & Anthropology: The Fall
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We are now all tainted by sin.
Take good & twist it (beauty -> lust) |
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Augustine and Epistemology: Types of Knowledge
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Lower Knowledge (Scientia)
Higher Knowledge (Sapientia) |
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Augustine and Epistemology: Lower Knowledge
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Nature- knowledge gained from senses
Value- knowledge of God's creation Limitations: senses change and can be mistaken, cannot tell about celestial world` |
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Augustine and Epistemology: Higher Knowledge
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Rationes Aeternae: Eternal Ideas/God's thoughts in us, innatism.
Cloud of sin: GOD shining on man but a CLOUD of SIN is in the way- most of His thoughts are being blocked. Doctrine of Illumination: General (life of sin, but love child) and Special (remove cloud to get full light) Credo ut Intelligam "I believe that I might know" faith to reason. |
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Augustine's definition of faith
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Belief in 1) Jesus Christ as 2) revealed in scripture & 3) taught by the church
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Augustine and Metaphysics: God
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God is the measure of all things
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Augustine and Metaphysics: The Created World
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Dualism: both valued; intelligible & sensible worlds.
Creation ex nihilo- something out of NOTHING |
