June 8 Chapters 13-15
questions
Don Enss
Chapter 13. Celestial
Harmonies: Plato in the Middle Ages
1. In
the name of what, did Saint Bernard say that, “The garments of Christ are being
divided, the sacraments of the Church torn to shreds” and that Abelard “corrupts
the integrity of the faith … and oversteps the landmarks placed by our Fathers?”
2. According
to Saint Bernard, what is the root of all evil, and the Achilles’s heel of the
Aristotelian mind?
3. What
was the startling new twist that the Syrian monk, Pseudo-Dionysius, gave to
Plato’s influence on Western thought?
4. “Thanks
in large part to the school of Chartres, by 1150 the image of God as Geometer
was appearing everywhere, in medieval manuscripts and in statuary. And the most
important geometric form of all was the ______? And why?
Chapter 14. At
the Summit: Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas
1. According
to Herman, what was the “rich cultured and commercial interface between East
and West that made Toledo Europe’s first cosmopolitan capital?
2. In
Toledo, what did Gerard of Cremona decide would be his life’s work and why was
that decision so important to us?
3. According
to Herman, “the fact remains that without _______ help, Western Europe would
never have recovered its knowledge of Greek science and mathematics – still the
foundations of modern science today – or understood how to interpret it?
4.
According
to Averroës, what were the three levels of reason and the three ways of
attaining the truth?
Chapter 15. The
Razor’s Edge
1. Ockham’s
razor is in effect a kind of eraser, to rub out what?
2. Roger
Bacon grasped the empirical aspect of Aristotle’s thought which was what?
3. What
was one of the most troubling problems that medieval philosophers faced, that
Ockham solved?
4.
What was the sweeping and revolutionary
concept regarding calling a General Council meeting?
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