June 15 Chapters 16-18
questions
Don Enss
Chapter 16. Aristotle,
Machiavelli, and the Paradoxes of Liberty
1. What
are the two ways that a citizen can contribute to a free self-governing
community?
2. What
is the concept that is a universal human value transcending all local
traditions and historical contexts and is an essential part of human nature and
potentiality that the Florentines had discovered in Aristotle and passed onto
subsequent generations including ours?
3. What
was the turning point in Machiavelli’s life and a pivot point in the evolution
of Western political thinking?
4. In
writing the Discourses, Machiavelli
discovered a basic paradox. What was the paradox?
Chapter 17. The
Creative Ascent: Plato and the High Renaissance
1. The
rediscovery of Plato in the fifteenth century reopened issues that had consumed
Christian thinkers since Origen and Saint Augustine. What were some of these
issues?
2. What
is the difference regarding “self” between the theology of Saint Augustine or
Saint Bernard and Ficino’s Platonic theology?
3. What
was Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s (Pico’s) single mission?
4.
According
to Herman, if you “scratch your average conspiracy theorist, you’ll probably
find a __________ __________ underneath?
Chapter 18. Twilight
of the Scholastics: The Reformation and the Doom of Aristotle
1. What
did Martin Luther state that he suddenly heard himself say, almost in a trance
when he reach to last step of the Scala Santa?
2. When
Luther returned home to prepare lectures on the Bible, one passage of Scripture
left him transfixed and was a turning point in his theology. What was that
passage?
3. Why
did the printing press trigger a revolution in Western Civilization?
4.
Over time Ficino, Colet, and their
colleagues raised the art of recovering a corrupt text’s lost meaning to a
science, which they called __________? Why was their work so important?
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