MEDIEVAL ERA

DEVELOPMENTS:

WHAT IS THIS THING

MADE OF?
COSMO-CENTRISM

Does God
Exist?

Is there
Heaven and Hell?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN

TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE?
HUMANISM

WHERE WILL I GO WHEN

I LEAVE THIS EARTHLY
EXISTENCE?
THEO-CENTRISM

St.Augustine

Youhavemadeusforyourself,andourheartsarerestlessuntil
theyrestinyou.(SeraphicDoctor)

DEVELOPMENTS:
GOOD AND EVIL (TWO OPPOSING REALITIES)(MANICHAEAN DOCTRINE)
CHRISTIANIZED SOME OF PLATOS TEACHINGS(FORMS/TWO WORLDS)

V.S.

IS EVIL REAL?

WHAT CONSTITUTES GOODNESS?

ILLUMINATION THEORY
GRACE OF GOD
TEACHER/GUIDE

INNER LIGHT
PROBLEM

ERROR

INCORRECT SOLUTION

ASSUMPTIONS:
1.Wrong understanding of problem brings wrong solution
2.Correct understandingcorrect solution---knowledge

CLAIMS:MS:
1. God speaks to man in a non-material way
2.Mind needs divine light to participate in the truth
REASONS:MIND
1.Inability to form knowledge by virtue of its nature((temporal,
2.Inability to abstract intelligible from sensible(changeable)

CONFUSION

Humans

TREES

ARCHETYPES

Dogs

We know truth through

knowledge of
archetypes(forms)

ARCHETYPES

ARCHETYPES

PROCESS: Gods Illumines the

ARCHETYPES

TRUTH
CONCLUSION:

Illumination is the work of God

EFFECTS:

IMPLICATIONS

Helps us understand mysteries of faith

Guides us towards our ultimate end

PASSIVITY
DEPENDENCE

AUGUSTINES SUMMARY ON ILLUMINATION

GRACEOF GOD
ONGOING
ACT OF GOD

INFORMS,TEACHES
AND GUIDE US

JUSTIFIES
OUR
BELIEF

MUST BE
RELIED UPON
ALWAYS

ENLIGHTENS OUR
MINDS
AND THE ARCHETYPE
OF THINGS

TRUTHS OF FAITH AND REASON

DIVINELY REVEALED

FACTS BASED

HIGHEST ORDER

LOWEST ORDER
MAN IS THE SOURCE

GOD IS THE SOURCE

MEANS OF SALVATION

MEANS OF KNOWING

CAN BE ACCEPTED OR
REJECTED

SUBJECT TO
PROOF/DISPROOF

THEIR RELATIONSHIP

TRUTH

FORCES THAT GO TOGETHER

CREDE UT INTELLIGAM

INTELLIGE UT CREDE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEO AND PHILO

KNOWLEDGE

REASON

PHILO

TRUTHS OF FAITH

THINGS

COMPLEMENTARY

NA
TU
RE

TH
IN
GS

TH
IN
G

REVELATION
TRADITION

THEOLOGY

MANS SALVATION

ARGUMENT

DEVELOPMENTS
ST.THOMAS
AQUIANAS
Dumb Ox/Angelic
Doctrine

REJECTED

DOUBLE TRUTH

ADOPTED

ARISTOTELIAN
SCIENCE AND
AUGUSTINES
THEOLOGY

REJECTED

ILLUMINATION

TRUTH IS ONE
THEO/PHILO

MIND
ABSTRACTION

ASSUMPTIONS

MIND
NATURAL LIGHT

MIND
FIRST PRINCIPLES

TRUTHS OF FAITH

TRUTHS OF REASON

SUPERBATURAL

NATURAL
INCOMPREHENSIBLE

OBJECT OF THEO

DEMONSTRATIVE

REVEALED

CANT ERR

OBJECT OF PHILO

NO ILLUMINATION

CAN ERR

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
PHILO AND THEO

WAYS OF KNOWING
CONSISTENT

THEO

SEPARATE NOT
OPPOSED
DISTINCT/RELATED
PHILO DEFENDS THEO
THEO CRITICIZES PHILO

PHILO

MIND HAS NATURAL LIGHT

NOTHING COMES TO THE MIND

UNLESS IT PASSES THRU THE SENSES

TWO STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE

A.SENSITIVE(INDIVIDUAL)
B.NTELLECTIVE(UNIVERSAL)

MIND,POWER
TO TRANSFORM

PHANTASM

THEORY OF
ABSTRACTION

SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

IDEA=ESSENCE

OBJECT

CONCLUSIONS ON ABSTRACTION
MEANS

Intelligible
form

KNOWER

TRANSFORMED

NATURE
OF OBJECTS
KNOWN

N
O
I
N
U