HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Peter Abelard, Scholasticism, The Twelfth
4 Apr 2018
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Twelfth-century intellectual life was all about new discoveries or re-discoveries, including the rediscovery of roman law/jurisprudence, and of the study of logic. By the thirteenth century, intellectuals had access to many more classical and arabic texts, and were engaged in the e ort to systematize and harmonize all the new logic. As classical and particularly aristotelian reasoning becomes more popular, scholars remain con dent that classical and christian truths can be synthesized into a single body of knowledge. Law, medicine, philosophy, theology, literature and architecture. Twelfth century scholasticism: old logic": partial translation of aristotle"s logic. Anselm of canterbury"s ontological proof of the existence of god. Explanation of the eucharist: dialectical reasoning: thesis->antithesis->synthesis. Can be used to: harmonize contradictory laws (gratian, harmonize contradictory aspects of christian doctrine. The 12th c. sees a revived interest in a number of forms of learning, and the proliferation of teachers and schools in a number of urban areas: no institutional framework, few new classical texts.
