POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Scholasticism, Averroes, Maimonides
Document Summary
Aristotle and christianity good life is in the hereafter (paradise). When aristotle talks about the good life, aquinas agrees, however says the. Aquinas valued the vow of silence quite seriously. His life was spent entirely in the church and moved between paris, naples and rome. A year before he died he had a vision that led him to doubt every single thing that was written and to swear off all intellectual writing (which he then did) Aquinas wrote in the 13th century - known as the golden age. What spurs the golden age is the arrival of aristotle. Conjunction of faith and reason universe of the world. Premise on a unitary vision of the universe. The universe is a coherent system and we have a space in that system. We are limited in our knowledge, even though god wants us to understand our. Reason will get you so far, and at one point faith has to take over.
