XXXIII. THE RECOVERY OF
LEARNING
(outline)
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Scholae publicae
Seven Liberal Arts: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic (Trivium)
Geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music (Quadrivium)
Tropes
*Metaphor or Metonymy
“he is an accident waiting to happen”
The White House announced today …”
“Dana’s party on Saturday was Woodstock all over again.”
*Syncedoche
“Give us this day our daily bread”
“The U. S. won four gold medals”
Irony
The soldiers cried out, “Hail, king of the Jews”
“Take the plank out of your own eye before removing your brother’s splinter”
paralypsis (leaving aside)
“It would be unseemly of me to dwell on the senator’s drinking problem and too many have sensationalized his womanizing ….
45 categories of rhetoric
Dialectic: an investigation via dialogue
Faith and reason:
Crede ut intelligas
Intellige ut credas
Computus
Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Besançon, Toulouse, Poitiers
Ostrogoths
Pope Agapetus and Cassidorus
Cathedral schools
Gerbert at Rheims (Pope Sylvester II)
Laon, Orleans, Rheims, Nevers, Tournai, Paris
King Robert of France, King Canute of England, William of Aquitaine, Odilo of Cluny
“philosophical realism” & Plato
Rose: Albas, Damask, Damask Perpetuals, Centiflorias, Mosses
“form”
nomen: nominalism
SIC ET NON
“By doubting we come to inquiry, by inquiry the Truth”
Intellige ut credas!
BOOK OF SENTENCES
Textbooks, lectures, scholars and cathedral schools … + taverns = universities