Fill-in-the-Blanks
The Nican Mopua recounts Juan Diego's encounter with ________.
Who is the Virgin Mary/Our Lady of Guadalupe?
Virtue politics, studia humanitatis, virtu', beatitude
What is virtu'?
[Goals of humanism]
The ethical system by which judge the rightness or wrongness of an action according to that action’s results
What is consequentialism?
The belief that all that is in the universe, is simply matter
“Throughout these islands, I observed little diversity in the appearance, customs, or language of the people. They all understand one another, a fact that holds great promise for Their Highnesses’ efforts to convert them to our holy faith, to which they seem very open and willing.”
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The humanists believed that __________ was the most convincing form of evidence.
What is authority?
Tyranny, oligarchy, anarchy, monarchy
What is monarchy?
[Vicious states, according to Machiavelli]
A cultural movement in the nineteenth century that was deeply critical of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment's confidence in human reason
What is Romanticism?
The idea of the universe, closest to the one used by Dante, which placed Earth at the center of the cosmos
What is the Ptolemaic system?
“They extend and abuse the authority of the Bible by making it to decide questions about the natural world rather than questions of faith and by forcing us to completely abandon our senses and our reason because of a few passages in Scripture that might be interpreted in a contradictory way.”
Who is Galileo?
Machiavelli argued that human life was divided 50/50 between events that are under our control and events that are dictated by _________.
What is fortune?
Ethics, reality, emotion, context
What is ethics?
[What ethos, logos, pathos, and kairos appeal to]
The biologization of race is an example of this philosophical error, which fails to account for all aspects of a thing (in this case, what it means to be human)
What is reductionism?
A 1493 political event between Rodrigo Borgia and the monarchs of Spain that made the encomienda system in the New World possible
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
“One cause for just war involves forcing submission (as a last resort) from those who by their natural condition should obey other but refuse to. … Even though all these powers are different, they are all based on natural law, which can be reduced to one principle: the more perfect needs to rule the less perfect, and the more excellent need to rule over the less excellent.”
Who is Sepulveda?
Aristotle and the humanists believed we learned how to be virtuous or vicious in political life via ________.
What is mimesis?
Clerval, William, Victor, Elizabeth
Who is Victor?
[Persons killed by the Creature]
The process when two religions encounter each other and intertwine to the point that they create a new, third religion
What is religious syncretism?
The system that brought processed goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and raw goods from the Americas to Europe
What is the Triangle Trade?
“You say ‘hail,’ but you don’t know why. You recite ‘hail’, but you don’t know why. You beat yourself saying ‘hail’, but you don’t know why. God wants the intention and God takes the intention. Marriage serves no purpose; God takes the intention. Baptism serves no purpose, God takes the intention. Confession serves no purpose, God takes the intention. Prayer serves no purpose, God wants the intention. Good deeds serve no purpose, God wants the intention.”
Who is Dona Beatriz [the false St. Anthony]?
Complete the rhetorical triangle, right now, in front of everyone.
Machiavelli, Las Casas, Sepulveda, Galileo
Who is Sepulveda?
[Critics of humanism]
The fancy term for Galileo's belief that faith and reason are two separate domains of knowledge and only relate to each other in moments of weakness
What is extrinsicism?
The logical conclusion of Baconian science, which contends that human beings can determine or supplant a natural thing's end for the sake of the utility and benevolence of all humankind
What is the mechanistic view of reality?
“The ancient teachers … promise impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little...[and] have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend to the heavens: they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers.”
Who is Mary Shelley?