The Romantic Poets and the French Revolution Tuesday September 11th at 10am Asclepius
Romanticism and Revolution. The Romantic movement of 19th century art and literature was influenced by revolutionary events such as the French and American revolutions. The 18th century Romantic poets were influenced by many outside influences but chief among them was the revolution occurring in France
When reference is made to Romantic verse, the poets
who generally spring to mind are William Blake (1757-1827), William
Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), George
Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and
John Keats (1795-1821)
This
courses lasts for thirteen weeks in 2 hourly sessions. It costs £65.
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The Philosophy and history of the Passions Wednesday September 12th at 10 am at Asclepius Therapy 10 am
This
courses lasts for thirteen weeks in 2 hourly sessions. It costs £65.
For more information ring 07592330467 or email squabs hotmail.co.ukFear,
joy, grief, love, hate, pride, shame. We all have emotions, and we
recognize emotions in others. But do we really understand what emotions
are and what they signify? It is remarkable how often we are wrong about
our own emotions and misread the emotions of others. We also deceive
ourselves about their meaning. The more we puzzle over the nature of
emotions, the deeper the mystery becomes. It is a mystery that is by no
means solved, but one that repays careful, philosophical analysis.
Thursday September 13th at 10 am
This courses lasts for thirteen weeks in 2 hourly sessions. It costs £65. For more information ring 07592330467 or email squabs hotmail.co.uk
The Wisdom books in the Bible, in their probable order of writing, are Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes (also called Qohelet), Ben Sira (also called Sirach or Ecclesiasticus), and the Wisdom of Solomon. The first three are included in Jewish and Protestant Bibles. The Septuagint and the Bibles of the Eastern Churches and the Roman Catholic Church include all five books.
These books were probably written by sages, what we might call “the Israelite
intelligentsia.” Scholars debate whether there was a group of sages, as
distinct from (for instance) prophets or priests, or a general
intellectual movement among the Israelite elite but no distinct group.
The sages also served as diplomats, palace bureaucrats, counselors,
advisors to the king, educators, and scientists. The sages wrote and
edited the Wisdom books over the course of almost a thousand years.
Scholars identify three different types of wisdom that run through all five Wisdom books:
• Village
wisdom/folk wisdom characterized by short, pithy statements, wexamplesdrawn from nature and framed as instruction from parents to
their children, as in Prov
• Royal
wisdom from one of the Israelite capitals, instructing junior
bureaucrats on theintricacies and treachery of palace politics, as in Prov 23:1-3.
• Theological
wisdom of deep reflection on the most controversial of theologicatopics, such as: Is there a God? If there is a God, why do such awful
things happen? (Eccl 3:19-21)
The
sages had two sources of information about life: the natural world and
their Wisdom tradition. Unlike prophets and priests, the sages believed
that God wove important principles into the fabric of the universe,
which careful observation could discern. For example, many sages
believed in a balanced universe in which the good are rewarded for their
goodness and the evil are punished. These two sources were in tension
at times; human experience showed that sometimes good people suffer and
evil people sleep peacefully. The sages agonized over the contradictions
in their system and took different sides in their debates.
In
the book of Proverbs, we can see a great Wisdom debate about whether
God could be trusted in the governance of the world and whether God was
predictable or unpredictable. Most of the authors of Proverbs said that
yes, God could be trusted. But the sages understood this confidence
differently. Some argued that a careful practice of Wisdom principles
(honest speech, hard work, marital faithfulness) would lead to a happy,
prosperous life. Others argued that although God's governance of the
world is flawless, humans can never be sure of God’s action: even if you
followed the right path, bad things could still happen to you (Prov 16:9).
The
sages believed that things happen for reasons and that humans are able
to figure out the workings of the universe. The prophets, in contrast,
believed that God gives divine
knowledge to select humans thorough dreams, visions, ecstasy, and
divine appearance. Yet some of the sages felt outrage because their
expectation was that the universe should make sense, but in their
experience it did not. So these sages challenged the rationality of
their universe and even the justice of God.
David Penchansky, "What Is Wisdom Literature?", n.p. [cited 13 Jun 2018]. Online: https://www.bibleodyssey.org:443/en/passages/related-articles/what-is-wisdom-literature
The Twelve Prophets and Wisdom Literature
The Twelve, also called The Twelve Prophets, orThe Minor Prophets, book of the Hebrew Bible that contains the books of 12 minor prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. In most other versions of the Old Testament, each of these 12 is treated as a separate book (e.g., the Book of Hosea), but in the Hebrew Bible they are consolidated into one book that is the last of eight books in the second division of the Hebrew Bible, known as Neviʾim (q.v.), or The Prophets
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