HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chartres Cathedral, Units Of Paper Quantity, Clifford Geertz
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L e c t u r e 4. Discussion 2 perception of reality in the medieval period. ~ an image / a representation (not something that is the real thing itself) There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism - benjamin. I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore a scienti c process - clifford geertz. Experience (you"ve seen a chair, you"ve used it, etc. ) Question a cause / effect relationship to explain people"s actions. Attributing the mystic experience to the outside instead of looking inside. Geertz: does not want to depend on causal attributions. A mystic dangerous for the church (?) ~ a relationship with god which no longer re- quires the church to tell you what and how to believe. Platonism: mind ~ closer to mysticism (way of knowing god without knowing all these theories about god)
