HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 78: William Farel, Neoplatonism, Obscurantism
7 Apr 2020
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Faber seemed fairly optimistic about the powers of human reason: aristotle the priest. Faber called aristotle a kind of priest: faber"s synthetic humanism. Faber"s humanism thus included mystical neoplatonic and aristotelian elements. His goal would be apply all that he had learned to the study of the christian scriptures. Eventually, faber abandoned the university of paris and its stodgy scholastics. Recalling the complaints of vives, barbaro and erasmus for a benedictine monastery. He had a greater degree of freedom: guiallaume briconnet. He came into contact with guillaume a well educated bishop in meaux. Just to the east of paris, he oversaw a circle of like-minded humanist reformers: the meaux circle. It included not just faber but also the aforementioned guillaume farel. It was here in the 1520s that faber was able to further influence farel. In the early 1520s, the increasingly daring faber wrote a commentary on and a translation of the new testament in french.
