PREVIEW: PHIL C100 Quiz 1 — P A G E 1 — 1. The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek philein (to love) and sophia (knowledge or wisdom). X | True | | False | 2. Which of the following is a "philosophical question": | Is there a God? | | Does the end justify the means? | | What form of government is best? | | What is Time? | X | All of the above. | 3. An argument is a reason for accepting a position. X | True | | False | 4. The area of philosophy
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The Consolation of Philosophy is a work by the sixth century philosopher Boethius‚ written in prison after his drastic fall from power‚ that has often been described as the last great work of the Classical Period. It is a combination of Menippean satire and apocalyptic dialogue that resonates in structure to a classical Greek Dialogue‚ with a more pronounced personal‚ religious and mystical significance. It is impossible to ignore the impact that Consolation had on Medieval Europe‚ with numerous
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Consolation of Philosophy‚ Ancius Boethius‚ a learned official of the Roman Empire who awaits execution for unjust accusations‚ desolately rests in his jail cell‚ writing poetry and contemplating on life with the Muses of Poetry. He is soon interrupted by Philosophy‚ who appears to him in the form of a lovely woman that is “full of years‚ yet possesses a vivid color and undiminished vigor” (Boethius 2). As a physician treating a patient would‚ Lady Philosophy diagnoses Boethius with a serious illness‚ which
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The Philosophy Of Happiness Defies Time Boethius is currently under house arrest for a crime he did not commit‚ lost and confused as he knows the “beginning of things but not their goal” (17). In his dejected state Lady Philosophy appears to him and through reason is able to heal him. Some of the main ideas and themes represented in book I and II include renewing Boethius’s sense of what the goal of mankind is at it’s most primal and essential level. One of the other main ideas and or themes essential to Boethius once again becoming reaquainted with himself
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Periods of rhetorical theory: To 400 bce Classical: Aristotle‚ Plato‚ Cicero‚ Plutarch‚ etc. To 1400 Medieval: Augustine‚ Boethius‚ Geoffrey Vinsauf‚ Christine de Pizan‚ etc. To 1700 Renaissance: Erasmus‚ Castiglione‚ Ramus‚ Bacon‚ etc. L.17th to 18th cent Enlightenment: Locke‚ Hume‚ Mary Astell‚ Austin‚ G. Campbell H. Blair‚ etc. Nineteenth century: Whately‚ Stewart‚ F. Douglass‚ Willard‚ Nietzsche‚ etc. 20th cent Modern and postmodern: Bakhtin‚ V. Woolf‚ K. Burke‚ Chaim Perelman
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Saint Augustine ------------------------------------------------- Life Early childhood Augustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras‚ Algeria) in Roman Africa. His father‚ Patricius‚ was a pagan‚ and his mother‚ Monica‚ was Christian. Scholars believe that Augustine’s ancestors included Berbers‚ Latins and Phoenicians. Augustine’s family name‚ Aurelius‚ suggests that his father’s ancestors werefreedmen of the gens Aurelia given full Roman citizenship by the Edict of
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In book III of The Consolation of Philosophy‚ Boethius establishes the fact that God is the world’s helmsman‚ the divine reason‚ the supreme good‚ the origin of all things. He demonstrates that God is omnipotent and omniscient. Nothing more superior can even be conceived of. Through the concept of unity‚ through which things basically become good‚ Boethius shows that God and happiness are one‚ the divine goodness. He concludes‚ "God is the essence of happiness." (70) Book IV is the turning point
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and their relevance to Eng Literature (examples‚ people‚ time span): Old English/Anglo-Saxon – language (many different dialects) and culture of Anglo-Saxons‚ 7th -11th c.‚ lit.: The Ruin‚ Beowulf‚ Seafarer etc; Bede‚ Caedmon‚ St Columba‚ St Augustine‚ Alfred the Great; Early Medival times‚ migrations‚ arrival of Christianity‚ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle‚ Viking Invasion‚ Germanic heritage‚ Christian ideology‚ memory of Roman Empire (myth of origins‚ Brutus)‚ Celtic elements‚ traditions (druids‚ runes
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CARBALLO‚ JOHN ERICK A. PROF. REY ATACADOR Ancient times Medieval Ages Modern Era Contemporary Times (7th Century B.C.) (8th – 16th A.D.) (17th -18th A.D.) (20th -21st Century A.D.) DETAILED TIMELINE: Ancient: (7th Century B.C. - 5th Century A.D.) Pre-Socratic (7th - 5th Century B.C.) Socratic (5th - 4th Century B.C.) Hellenistic (3rd Century B.C. - 3th Century A.D.) Roman (1st
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C. Human Person as an Imago Dei “The image theory that Plato had related to the forms and that Augustine related to the divine ideas was transposed by Aquinas into a doctrine of participation whereby creatures have an intrinsic‚ limited sharing of “existence” with all the perfection that existence brings with it.” Augustine sees man as bearer of God’s resemblance- an image that does not attain its original identity by equality but approaches it in likeness. St. Thomas would have it the way man
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