NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Albertus Magnus, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Natural Philosophy
25 Nov 2017
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St. victor around 1140 ad who saw the mechanical arts as part of man"s religious and philosophical quest . St. victor saw mechanical arts as a branch of knowledge that paralleled theoretical knowledge and practical arts. His ideas were very new and he was suggesting was rather crazy. He tried to increase the status of technology by connecting it to christianity. One type of knowledge you could learn = technical knowledge. He considered that certain types of knowledge in society have value and that technical knowledge had value. Trying to suggest that learning these knowledge can help you obtain religious salvation. Certain knowledges were ways of revolving human problems. Technical knowledge = solution to the problem of human weakness. His way of trying to raise the status of technology. His ideas were accepted by some groups and were rejected by many.
