HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Liberal Arts Education, List Of Roads In Amman, Alcuin
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Published on 15 Jun 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Hum 1
Introduction to Humanities
● Key people
○ Boethius: On Topical Differences
○ Theodoric the Great
○ Alcuin of York (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus)
○ St. Augustine
○ St. Thomas Aquinas
■ 4-level Bible exegesis:
● 1) Literal
● 2) Allegorical
● 3) Moralistic
● 4) Anagogic
■ Synthesis of Theology & Philosophy
■ Uses Aristotelian logic to prove God’s existence
■ 2 methods united in systematic scholarly study
● theology
● philosophy
■ Christian Scholasticism: use of intellect and logic to bring
together opposing ideas
● Consolation of Philosophy
● The Seven Liberal Arts
● Dante Alighieri
○ Human life is a journey
○ Divine Comedy
■ Hell
■ Purgatory
■ Heaven
○ 9 circles of hell
■ 1st Circle: Limbo
■ 2nd Circle: Lust
■ 3rd Circle: Gluttony
■ 4th Circle: Greed
■ 5th Circle: Wrath and Sloth
■ 6th Circle: Heresy
■ 7th Circle: Violence
■ 8th Circle: Fraud
■ 9th Circle: Treason
● Included the 7 deadly sins
○ It’s interesting that some of the circles of hell include the