PHIL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Renaissance Humanism, Indulgence, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
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Chapter 12: moving from medieval to modern philosophy. God made the world for us: finite & earth-centered, a stage for the drama of humanity, governed by final causes, dante, integration: religious meaning & fact. Heaven is understood to be quite literally up above us. Empyrean: a place of pure light: for christians, the dwelling place of god and the destination of saved souls. Virgil: roman poet, author of the aneid (the story of aneas" journey from troy to found the city of. Rome), and dante"s guide through hell and purgatory in his the divine comedy. Celestial spheres: revolve in immutable splendor very different from earth. Level of hell is order of least to worst punishment: Inspired by recovery of the classics: celebrate human potential; strive perfection, erasmus (the prince of humanists): finds a profound harmony among the best in.