ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wet Nurse, Breastfeeding, Lmfao
14 Aug 2020
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Also ties into historical structure, related to phylogenetic structure of human life. From rhetoric to search for wisdom (philosophical quest) From scientia (external knowledge) to sapientia (wisdom and inner knowledge), plato and logos. Problem of evil as healing of the will, humility and divine caritas. Book 9: "freedom from slavery to careerism, spiritual friendship in mystical ascent with mother monica. Born in algeria, a colony of the late roman empire. Left region for career at heart of the empire. Spent most of his life back in north africa, in hippo. Became the most influential philosopher of that region, for all of the period of medieval. Early inventor of the western university (one of its birthplaces was in monastic. This is also the story of how he became a monk. Brings together two sources of wisdom/philosophy: biblical wisdom, and greco-roman platonic tradition of philosophy. Philosophy and literature, but also politics (introduction of the secular)
