western civ. test 1

Higher learning equals

Truth

Veritas means

Veritable, verify

The golden ratio (1.618) or “Fibonacci’

Symmetry proportion, harmony

Truth=beauty=

Love

Natural law: is man the measure or made to a measurement?

Patterns, probabilities, “bell curves,” standards deviation, regression to the mean

Francis Galton quote (Athens)

“The cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error."

The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if

they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-

effacement, amidst the wildest confusion.”

Francis A. Schaeffer (Jerusalem)

“If man is not made in the image of God, nothing

then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no

good reason why mankind should be perceived

as special. Human life is cheapened.”

Who talked about the aim of Eugenics, saying it’s

to check the birth-rate of the Unfit, and for

the improvement of the race by furthering the

productivity of the Fit

Francis Galton

Who talked about the “civilized races of man will almost

certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races

throughout the world.” And “the break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and

some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla”

Charles Darwin

“The _______ should be the person who is alive,

whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves,

which produces something a bit different from

God's world because God made us to be creative.”

Schaeffer about Christians

Theocentric

God’s story-revelation

Anthropocentric

Our story-dominant epistemology observation

Egocentric

My story-intuition

Dominant in the West until, at least the 18th century

Theocentric (Pre-Modern)

Becomes dominant between the 18th and 20th Century

Anthropocentric (Modern)

Emerges at the end of the 20th Century

Individual/Egocentric (Post-Modern?)

Morning Chapel

Code of Conduct

Resident facility

Pleasant surroundings

“To Make Men Free”

The University Model (universa – “turned into one”) Christian education

“Time” Rescues “Truth”

History

Epistemology

Systems of knowing how do we know what we know?

History is

Considered the most “practical education”

Code of conduct was demanded by whom

Students, to protect themselves from each other

Primary source

A contemporary or off if an event, like a living witness

The world that was…

Regimented and stable with 3 estates (authority and obligation)

1st estate was made up of…

Religious leaders (noble by vow and calling)

Religious leaders represented

Peace of the temporal with the spiritual realms

“Peace between God and men)

The 2nd estate was made up of

Earthly rulers (noble by vow and birth)

Earthly rulers represented

Peace within the temporal realm

“Peace between man and man”

The 3rd estate was made up of

The rest, “the common “nobility” of all work”

Those who toil in their God given labor

Just because they were commoners didn’t mean that…

The were poor, they just weren’t appointed by God like priests and rulers

Theocentric: ordered authority

Power plus right

Harmonious- “soulfulness”

Crisis of authority

“It is to us the world is entrusted not to you.” -Boniface VII

The white horseman

Legitimate authority, power and right, wears a crown

The great papal schism (1378-1417)

A very bad resolution to century if messing with continuity

3 simultaneous popes!

The 3 simultaneous popes included one in France named…

Clement VII

The popes of Italy during the schism

Alexander V, and Urban VI

“Peasants revolt”

Institutions under attack

Friar John Ball

leader of the peasants revolt who said he didn’t think any of the popes were legitimate, and wanted to get rid of them all and their people, followers thought he was cleansing the world

A century of…

Contested authority and war

The red horseman

War and raw power

No crown, just a sword

“He who sheds his blood with me today, be he ever so vile, shall gentle his condition”

Quote from Henry V at Agincourt according to Shakespeare

Battle of Agincourt (1415) (part of 100 years war)

Henry’s “gentled” bowmen defeat French mass produced knights (French suffer 10 to 1 casualties)

Joan of Arc (Orleans 1429)

French inspiration, fighting for God, on the battlefield to win back what the men had lost

Weakening of class divisions due to…

Manpower (and even woman power) demands of incessant war

The black horseman

Social disintegration and natural calamity

What caused Holland’s “a 100 years washed away)

Flood

What cause wet harvests or blight, bringing a 10% population loss

Famine

“A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages” Rev. 6 means what

Prices for food you just survive on, and it’s expensive

Climate change

Not the rise or dip, but the rate/how fast it’s changing

“Little ice age” (1350-1920)

crop failures, famines, disease

Spiritual or natural?

Regardless, God is sovereign of both

San Gimignano, Tuscany lost how much of their population from the plague

80%

Bubonic plague(s)

30% of the population lost in 5 years

The _____ 14th century (1301-1400)

Calamitous

Renaissance (1350-1550)

Rebirth

Petrarch’s “ages”/ 3 chapters in someone’s life

Classical (unsurpassed)- dark- renaissance

Strasbourg cathedral (466ft)

Built 1136-1439

Tallest structure in Europe until the Eiffel Tower (1889)

Renaissance traits were

Not dominant in the renaissance, just starting to point in this direction

Renaissance traits included

Individualism, secularism, urbanism, elitism, humanism

Individualism

Filipo Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence

We begin to know who’s behind the art

Secularism

Who tells time?

Sienna (clock tower)

“Good gov’t”

Town hall

Marketplace

Sienna’s town hall

Allegory of good and bad gov’t

A “good” gov’t

A “necessary evil”