History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Johannes Gutenberg, Humanitas, Scholasticism
2 May 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
October 17th, 2017
Humanism
Guest Lecturer: Jeff Adams
Debate about how you define humanism
Looking at the meaning of the words used
And their understandings
Word humanists doesn’t appear until the 16thC.
From a philosophy but a methodology
Early Modern Humanism
➢ Renaissance
o The veil of faith removed, stepping into the light of a new world (modernity)
o Revelation of human nature
➢ Humanitas
o A Latin term
o Cultural values that come from the study of those people and a liberal arts
education (Plato, Aristotle)
➢ Studia Humanitas
o A course of study
o An approach
➢ Umanista
o 15thC. Italy
o someone who is a teacher of the studia humanitas
➢ Ad Fontes = “Back to the Sources”
o Interested in going back to the past (rebirth)
o Greco-Roman world was the high point of human life and development
▪ Talking about these ideas with each other, get involved in society itself
(bringing these ideas to gov’t itself)
o Collecting these sources, gather together, arrange in chronological order,
understand material
▪ See trouble from universities and roman catholic church
➢ Johann Gutenberg
➢ Constantinople Scholasticism – Dialectic
o Primary method using the process of dialectic
o Medieval would take 2 concepts that were seen as opposites to one another
▪ Write out the contradictions
▪ Attempt through logical processes to resolve the contradictions so that they
weren’t contradictory anymore
▪ Trying to resolve the apparent differences between two bodies of
irreconcilable differences
• Greco-Roman world (Plato, Aristotle, etc.)
• biblical teachings
o maybe they aren’t so contradictory after all
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