C.S. Lewis deftly explains the medieval concept of intelligence (intelligentia) and reasoning (ratio). It seems that we have gone a bit overboard of the ratio of late. From “The Discarded Image”.pic.twitter.com/I8AgdpQVJD
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C.S. Lewis deftly explains the medieval concept of intelligence (intelligentia) and reasoning (ratio). It seems that we have gone a bit overboard of the ratio of late. From “The Discarded Image”.pic.twitter.com/I8AgdpQVJD
Lewis later goes on to note that our modern sense of reason as cold and logical is completely at odds with the medieval and even classic notions of reasons, surviving traces which can be found in the warm, empathic, kind word “reasonable”, harking back to a natural law of hearts.
C.S. Lewis on the ancient belief in the four humours, and their linguistic remains in English.pic.twitter.com/izZRYGuDSO
C.S. Lewis beautifully captures the peace of mind and the ‘joie de vivre’ in the medieval mind vs. the modern mind: “Medieval and nineteenth century man agreed that their present was no very admir able age; not to be compared (said one) with the glory...”pic.twitter.com/ySgb2EV0C4
C.S. Lewis on the medieval idea of art, as ‘infima inter omnes doctrinas’ (the lowest of all sciences), and how its development to what we have today where everything and anything is art (sokalian even) and everything is subjective mirrors the dissolution of all sense, all order.pic.twitter.com/LxtIRrZeco
is this the semantics book or discarded image?
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