HSTY1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cathedral School, Neoplatonism, Rational Basis Review
18 Jul 2018
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From 1050 we find latin translated from classical sources -> classical sources translated from greek to arabic then to latin. What interested christians were the philosophies in the texts, gave christians theologians a new perspective aside from the a neo-platonic view. Much richer than what they had been working with, challenged how they understood the world to be ordered and the role of god. Looked at how pagan thinking could illuminate their understanding of the world. All of aristotles texts were translated into latin from 1140 to 1280. Few scholars read his texts, most accessed them through commentaries of arabic scholars. Aristotelian work began in paris 1215-40 with bacon. All contributed to a new understanding of the natural world- which christians said has been divinely created in a natural order or hierarchy. God would only have made the world with rational laws, therefore you should be able to study it in a rational, not just a religious way.
