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Philosophy Midterm Exam
Introduction
• Ancient Thought = cosmocentric
• Medieval Thought = theocentric
• Modern Thought = Anthropocentric
• Most saw faith and reason as complimentary and synthesized them
• History of Philosophy like Tree
o Greek roots
o Medieval trunk
o Modern branches
o Contemporaries as leaves
• Augustine = Christianized Plato
• Aquinas = Christianized Aristotle
St. John the Evangelist
• Announced new kind of philosophy
• Began relationship b/t faith and reason
• Logos was a man (Jesus) but Christ was not Logos “The Logos became flesh”
St. Justin Martyr
• 1st Christian Philo
• Philo used to bring us closer to God
• 4 steps Intellectual Conversion
o seeks truth by unaided effort of reason
o disappointed
o offered truth by faith, accepted
o satisfies his reason
• cant find logos w/o Christ
St. Augustine
• Mind and heart are absolute values but heart is deeper
• 3 Crisis in Culture
o Faith
o Reason
o Marriage b/t them
• City of God all human history interpretation
o City – association of men bound by common love
o Response to fall of Rome
• 2 Cities both bound by Love
o The city of God – invisible community for all who love God as God
o City of the World – love the world and themselves as their God
o Response to identity crisis from birth
• Confessions – about own life
o Written to God
o Story of God’s search for man and vice versa
• On the Trinity
o Response to errors about the central doctrine of Christian theology
• Search for greatest good
o “Man is a living tragedy”
• perpetual wanderer looking for end/happiness/home
• 4 possible homes – nature below, self within, others around, God above
• man not home in nature (body is but soul is not)
• Christian key – God who doesn’t need us loves and saves us from ourselves
• Divine revelation
o Need faith to understand “Unless you believe, you will not understand”
• Goal = to know God, not solve issues
• Epistemology
o Skepticism
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