PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Philology, Classical Antiquity, Practical Education
5 Jan 2021
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Asserted the genius of man, places man in the center. Religious undertone but its about discovering something about yourself. Philosophy becomes a conversation with the self. Not philosophy per se, but rather a method as a new curriculum of learning. Humanism is the movement to recover, interpret, and assimilate the language, From self knowledge, we can talk about the outer world literature, learning/ and values of ancient greece and rome, in their original form, not as interpretations. An educational program (rhetoric, grammar, poetry, history, moral philosophy, philology), linking the ancient classical (greek-roman) past to the early modern. Christian world, and showing little interest in metaphysics, epistemology and logic (that was reshaped to serve the purposes of persuasion) Roman works: more accessible- linguistically and materially (i. e. seneca, Greek works: of more difficult recovery, both practically (through arab or. Real mastery of greek tradition: only from 1400s. Humanist movement changed older approaches to philosophy, contributing to.
