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THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL 1000-1300 How did the recovery of classical learning affect medieval intellectual life

THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL 1000-1300 How did the recovery of classical learning affect medieval intellectual life?. Obj: What factors allowed Europeans to dedicate themselves to basic education?. BACKGROUND & GROWTH OF SCHOOLS.

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THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL 1000-1300 How did the recovery of classical learning affect medieval intellectual life

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  1. THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL 1000-1300How did the recovery of classical learning affect medieval intellectual life? Obj: What factors allowed Europeans to dedicate themselves to basic education?

  2. BACKGROUND & GROWTH OF SCHOOLS • 4 MAJOR INTELLECTUAL ACCOMP-LISHMENTS: EXPANSION OF PRIMARY ED, SPREAD OF UNIV., ACQUISITION OF CLASSICAL & MUSLIM KNOW-LEDGE, DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PHILOSOPHICAL & THEOLOGICAL IDEAS • TOGETHER THESE 4 MARK BEGINNING OF EXTRAORDINARY ERA IN INTEL-LECTUAL HISTORY OF EUROPE • PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF CAROLINGIAN ERA – MONASTERY SCHOOLS • CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS EDUCATED ALL • CURRICULUM EXPANDED FROM PURELY RELIGIOUS TO SECULAR • NEED FOR EDUCATED CLERICS, BUREAUCRATS, LAWYERS ETC. • GROWTH OF LITERACY, VERNACULAR

  3. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES • UNIVERSITY WAS EDUCATION GUILD • SPECIFIC DRESS TO IDENTIFY TEACH-ERS & STUDENTS • RISE OF MODERN STATE & ECONOMIC GROWTH LED TO INTEREST IN LAW • UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA – JUSTIN-IAN CODE – W/ DISAGREEMENTS ON THE RISE NEED MEDIATION • REVIVAL COINCIDED W/ LAY INVEST. • LATE 11TH C. MANUSCRIPT OF CODE DISCOVERED IN PISA (CRUSADES?) • SALERNO – MEDICINE, TRANSLA-TIONS OF ARABIC MEDICAL TEXTS INTO LATIN • UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – CENTER OF N. EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE DUE TO PETER ABELARD

  4. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) & UNIVERSITY OF PARIS *ADEPT AT LOGIC, LOVED TO HUMILIATE & CREATED ENEMIES AS A RESULT *MARRIAGE TO HELOISE *LIFE AS MONK *TEACHER IN PARIS 1132-1141 *URGED INTENSE SELF-EXAMIN-ATION & ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MOTIVES KNOW THYSELF *AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT THE STORY OF MY CALAMATIES *GREATEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOLASTIC-ISM SIC ET NON – TREAT THEOLOGY LIKE SCIENCE *1 OF 1ST TO TRY TO HARMONIZE RELIGION W/ RATIONALISM

  5. THE TRIUMPH OF SCHOLASTICISM • 3 EVENTS FOR SCHOLASTIC MATURITY: 1) ABELARD • 2) BOOK OF SENTENCES BY PETER LOMBARD; QUESTIONS IN CONSEQUENTIAL ORDER, ANSWERS FROM BIBLE & CHRISTIAN AUTHOR-ITIES & PROPOSED JUDGEMENTS • 3) REACQUISITION OF CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY AFTER 1140 – NOW COULD ACCESS ARISTOTLE • PETER LOMBARDS ORGANIZATIONAL METHOD, CONSIDERE GREEK & ARABIC PHILOSOPHICAL AUTHORITIES AS WELL AS CHRISTIAN ONES IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT SYSTEMS OF UNDERSTANDING THAT HARMONIZED FAITH & REASON

  6. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS 1225-1274 & TEACHING THEOLOGY • SUMMA THEOLOGICA – COLLECTION OF THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS • MAINTAINED IMPORTANT DISTINC-TION BETWEEN FAITH & REASON • FAITH COULD BE DEFENDED BY REASON • CREATED NEW AREA IN PHILOSOPHY • EPISTEMOLOGY – HOW A PERSON KNOWS SOMETHING & FOR ST. THOMAS AQUINAS THERE WERE 2 WAYS: • 1) SENSES & 2) MIND

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