MMW 13 Study Guide - Final Guide: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Summa Theologica, Petrarch

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 13
• Professor: Edmond Yi- Teh Chang

Document Summary

Mmw 13 study guide final exam: lecture terms. Channel of grace: for anyone to obtain salvation, the only way to do so was to go through the church and its rituals. Vergerius: university education is a privilege, and is not for everyone; liberal studies/humanities for the gifted; history, moral philosophy, rhetoric. Scholasticism: the truth is already known; organize, clarify, defend existing truths; commentaries on the classics; new method for explaining ideas. Humanism: history, moral philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, oration; encouraging people to engage the classics directly and come to their own conclusions; began to challenge the. Bible directly; when you celebrate reason, you are celebrating god at the same time. Francesco petrarch: virtue for its own sake, not for salvation; this-worldliness (being more focused on this life instead of the afterlife) Pico della mirandola: oration on the dignity of man celebrating god"s greatest creation, based more on eloquence than logic, intermediate form and chameleon figure, midpoint of the world.