HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hildegard Of Bingen, Extraversion And Introversion, Experiencia Religiosa
Document Summary
L e c t u r e 3. The book of genesis (borrowed much later) ~ borrows from the epic of gilgamesh ~ supposedly written by god, but would be seen as plagiarism today. Joint creation of males and females vs. the creation the. Eve out of the rib of adam (story turned around by the. Hildegard von bingen who presents this story from a dif- ferent perspective) Philosophers such as plato always talk about the real" as be- ing rich and comprehensible only through the mind. The only reality is the realities that we cannot comprehend. Philosophers such as aristotle say that the senses tell us what the nature of reality is (what we see, what we touch, what we hear determines what is real or not) The skeptics: you can never know anything, you have to doubt everything, you can never know what the reality is. 12th century society: more illiterate but a capable reading community.
