MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theodicy, Andreas Capellanus, Courtly Love

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 12
• Professor: Richard Cohen

Document Summary

Set the theological and anthropological basis for christianity with his writings. Born after the edict of milan (313 ad) He examines himself in a spiritual sense to figure out who he is. His main problem before conversion was lust. Evil is the absence of good, and there is always good even in bad situations therefore god is always there. The fucking pears i swear to god. He uses it to show his own experience of original sin (kind of like a replaying of eden) People are placing lesser goods above god (which is the supreme good) Bad, but hard to escape due to original sin. Human will is fundamentally at war with itself. He was a sadboi cuz he was too horny, but at the same time he was horny so could god plz wait till he got off thnx. In the moment before his conversion, he hears a voice tell him to read the bible.