SMC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mendicant Orders, Saint Dominic, Angel
1 Feb 2018
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Thrones hierarchy of angels (9 orders) influential work on angelology on the celestial. Dido fell in love and because of it lost her kingdom put aeneas above her kingdom. Prostitute is in heaven because he helps hide and save the israelites. Canto x the sun, where the wise dwell. Aquinas: one of the dancing flames talks of albert the great / of cologne, his master. Solomon ot king, when others are in limbo. Pseudo-dionysus, boethius, isidore, bead, richard of st victor. Idea that human can gain intellect of what goes on, on the other side. Canto xi aquinas on life of francis. Sentiment of the time is optimistic to the theory of knowledge (no descartes skepticism) In a way, everything since descartes is a negation of ma philosophy, or skeptic. It is possible to conceive of every being as it really is everything in the universe is ordered, good, beautiful therefore this is all true about god.
