Serious Times Flashcards
who is the subject of art in the medieval period?
crucifixion of christ
who is the object of art in the medieval period?
humans
the renaissance was a rebirth, moving from fascination with…
the world to come
to
the world at hand
explain “such a return to athens, independent of jerusalem, increasingly elevated plato’s contention that ‘man is the measure of all things’.”
when humanism wasn’t connected with Christianity it became secular
2 propositions of the enlightenment
- present age is more enlightened than the past
2. we understand nature and humanity best through the use of our natural faculites
what scientific discover lead the way in the transition from faith seeking understanding to faith seeking justification?
copernicus verified galileo’s assertion that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe
explain the word “secular” // where it derives from // what it means today
from the latin word “saeculum” // means “this present age” // today it means divorced from religious or spiritual sensibility
how many people believed in god in 2003
79%
privatization
a chasm is created between the public and private spheres of life, and spiritual things are increasingly placed in the private area
pluralization
occurs when individuals are confronted with a staggering number of ideologies and faith options competing for their attention
how is christianity discredited today
on the ground that it argues for an unchanging and universal truth
moral relativism
what’s true for you is true for you and what’s true for me is true for me
autonomous individualism
each person is independent in term of destiny & accountability
narcissistic hedonism
places personal pleasure & fulfillment at the forefront of concerns
reductive naturalism
only those things that can be empirically verified in nature can be know
explain nietzsche’s quote “god is dead, we have killed him”
humans are responsible for the influence that god has over our daily lives
postmodern
time after the modern era
trinity characteristics of the enlightenment
reason
nature
progress
explain duck/rabbit picture
there can be many interpretations of the same fact
explain the umpires’ discussion of balls & strikes
i call them the way they are // objective
i call them the way i see them // subjective
they ain’t nothing til i call them // no stable reality
how is media today like a matrix
media has become the dominant perspective. medium is the message.
explain jaques derrida’s deconstruction
every statement must be approached with radical suspicion in order to construct one’s reality without imposing any stable meaning on reality
explain lyotard’s definition of postmodernism as “incredulity toward metanarratives”
skepticism toward any story that claims to make sense of the totality of reality
explain the artwork of wheelman
wheels of human progress don’t always carry the human race to greater happiness // devaluing of humanity
four features of the “dark ages”
- birth of the university
- writings of Augustine and Aquinas
- monastic movement
- engineering marvels of great cathedrals
