For much of the medieval period, it was dubious at best. Associated with human pride & attempts to attain knowledge outside divine wisdom.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is not true. The human faculty of reason was seen as injured, not dubious, since the Fall. Its role was to faithfully seek out truth./1
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But it also led men to heresy. Not women so much. See Augustine on this.
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You should clarify what you mean by 'reason.' Augustine was no fideist. He wouldn't have written
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Replying to @sicdeusvult @GastonLenotre
No, honestly, it's OK. I cannot define & explain the ambivalent relationship medieval Christianity had with reason in tweets.
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But I might write something about this at some point in the future.Comparing male sins of the tongue & associated sin of forbidden knowledge
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is probably one of the richest sources of anxiety tho.
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And re: Augustine, one of best sources of his ambivalence are seen in his relationship with his mother Monica in the dialogues at Cassiacum
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I wrote about it a bit here, particularly in Chapter Two.https://www.academia.edu/30784957/_Challendge_to_Your_Selves_no_Sovraigntie_Aemilia_Lanyer_Saint_Monica_Christian_Feminine_Virtue_and_its_Challenge_to_the_Patriarchal_Symbolic_Order …
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I asked you to define 'reason' cause it's unclear what you're talking about. /1
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Honestly, that's fine
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