Lyceum & Book Club - Week 11 - Transition from Greek Philosophy to Christianity
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 30, 2022
(this session is going to run about an hour or so longer)
Hand out chart showing lineage of philosophies/theologies from presocratics down to today.
First Lecture - Philosophy to Christianity / St. Augustine
Philo of Alexandria (see chart) - c 20 BC - c 50 AD - born in Alexandria, Egypt (a province within the Roman Empire)
Plotinus (see chart) - c. 204 AD – 270 AD - born in Roman Egypt
Overview to Augustine (354 AD –430 AD )
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Two articles will be handed out for members to read.
First - the article "Medieval Geocentrism" from "universe today".
It gives an overview of the transition from the Geocentrism of the Medieval period to Copernicus and the Heliocentrism model.
Second - a short introduction to Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Second Lecture: Hellenistic Philosophies to Christianity
Interactions between Christianity and Hellenistic philosophies
Scholasticism
Thomas Aquinas
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Book to Read:
Capetian France 987–1328 3rd Edition
by Elizabeth M. Hallam (Author), Charles West (Author)
You have two weeks in which to read the following material:
(the rest is optional)
Chapter 1 - French Society in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Introduction
The French Economy and Society
The structure of power
Political Developments of the Tenth Century
Chapter 2 - Politics and Society: A Regional View
Introduction
The Principalities: North
The Principalities: South
Chapter 3 - The Early Capetians, 987 - 1108
Introduction
The kings and the Church
Chapter 4 - The Revival of Royal Power, 1108 - 1226
Introduction
The Kings and the Church
Chapter 5 - Louis IX: The Consolidation of Royal Power, 1226 - 70
Introduction
Louis IX and the Church
Chapter 6 - The Last Capetians, 1270 - 1328: The Apogee of Royal Power
Introduction
The Kings and Their Reigns
The French Economy and Society
The Nature of Royal Power
The Kings and the Church
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
The Succession and the Hundred Years War
The Rise of the Capetians: some general perspectives
The French Kingdom and European Society
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