Courses for September 2018
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. For more information ring 07592330467 or email squabs
hotmail.co.uk
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 E65. For more information ring 07592330467 or email squabs hotmail.co.u
Fear, 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, with examples
drawn from nature and framed as instruction from parents to their children, as
in Prov 20:4.
• 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 theological topics, 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
Yhe seven
Sapiential or wisdom books included within the Septuagint, along with
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), Job, and
Sirach, and is included in the canon of Deuterocanonical books by the
Roman Catholic Church and the anagignoskomenona (Gr.
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