HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Summa Contra Gentiles, Liberal Arts Education, Thomism
24 Jan 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
What universities bring: systematic, organized, and continuous training in fundamental speculative and scientific disciplines, and in professions. International education and a common culture ( scholasticism : organization of learned professions (e. g. , medicine, law) St thomas aquinas 1225 1274: dominican teaching at university of paris, reinterprets aristotle"s philosophy to harmonize it with christian theology, summa theological / summa contra gentiles, canonized in 1323, theology considered queen of the sciences . Thomism became dominant philosophy until the 17th century. Renaissance: outline: the renaissance and the humanist movement, humanists and princes (e. g. , petrarch, petrarca) Ideas of the renaissance: the humanist movement, definitions, origins. Italian humanist movement: the northern humanist movement, humanism and political thought. Med-ren followed by early modern ? or just a long middle ages ? (jacques le goff): matthew reyolds suggests that we should not use the french word, use the latin origin. The grand narrative of western civilization: socrates (c. 400 bc, martin luther (1517, french revolution (1789)
