Literature 3306 - Scholasticism versus Humanism

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Bard College

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Human Rights, Medieval Studies, Theology Throughout the Middle Ages, intellectual life was dominated by scholastics, who sought to integrate reason and faith, logic and revelation, and classical philosophy and the Christian Gospels. During the Renaissance, however, intellectual discourse was taken over by humanists, who stressed empiricism over abstraction, rhetoric over dialectic, and Plato over Aristotle. Students in this seminar explore the tension between scholastic and humanist thought, the rise of the university, the shift from gothic to Renaissance architecture, the discovery of the New World, and the Protestant Reformation. Authors studied include Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Descartes.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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