PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Early Christianity, Cosmos 1, Scholasticism
3 Nov 2016
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Phil 102 rationalist tradition: historical context, late scholasticism (time where people were questioning aqueous methods etc. ) > voluntarism (is god in charge of what reason is or is god obeying the reasonable?) There is no form even in matter) > ockham"s razor we always prefer simpler of two explanations". We just make stuff up, we call table a table but it doesn"t make it a table. We just look at matter and say - let"s call that something. Name-ism (form is nothing but a linguistic convention: franciscans. > love of the poor > preached in the common understandable languages/dialects (such as greek and hebrew). > love of nature > the more attention you paid to the nature, the more you got closer to god. The mind"s road to god is god"s creation: the renaissance (the rebirth) Reading the literature in the original languages, allowing to skip whole bunch of accumulated traditions/commentaries.
