The Medieval Period: Dark or Light?

>Politcal Turmoil: war and crime

>Pestilent Reality: disease and death
>Prejudicial economy: feudalism and serfdom
-aevum > middle > medieval
>exploring art: literature to architecture
>enlightening society: the monasteries (S.S.)
-mini fortresses
-continuing knowledge
>enduring knowledge: the Arab-Byzantine connection

=history of building knowledge

-learning from the past so we can further push the frontiers of critical
thinking and knowledge

Censorship = Plato survived because of St. Augustine making sense of

philosopher-kings

Towards Establishing the Christian Church

A. Faith
-Pre-destination
-Even if you do not know, you shall follow
B. Reason
-leads to uncertainty
-unknowns
-when there is plenty of unknown, you need to have faith so you will have
C. Gelasian Dotrine of Two Swords
-Famuli vestrae pietatis
-Spiritual and Temporal
-Duo sunt (There are two.)
D. Quintus Tertullianus
-state separate from church (above
Tertullian Fideism - Faith does not equal Reason
E. St. Thomas of Aquinas
-state with the church
a. Thomist Scholasticism - Faith and reason

Thomas II: Dealing with Tyrants

1. P: Prevention - Not deal with them by preventing it in the first place
2. P: Perseverance - must endure suffering, humble enough to know that
mistakes are done, we make mistakes
-persevere, but we cannot love unconditional because there is a limit
to human patience
-a tyrant must go or too much
3. P: Public Authority - tyrannicide, support from public (maybe public
servants)
-make new leader have ACCOUNTABILITY
4. P: Prayer
Thomas III: Understanding Law
Religious
>Eternal (God's Wisdom)
>Divine (God's Written Word)

Secular
>Natural (Prescriptive Good)
>Human (Ecclesiastical Civil)
 =Non-Human Law: vague, should make it specific
=Unification: some conflicts, controversies, but how unified.
=Neo-Thomism/Modernism: Remain or Adopt
-church must maintain the constancy
-the tradition or status quo as to become the anchor of christianity and
humanity
-it needs to adopt in changing times but not to forget the identity but also
its identity can be flawed, since human is sinful.