Final

My Final Project Can be seen using this link. 

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    My project as 3 parts. Aristotle and the mountain, Plato and the cave, and Boethius. 

    Aristotle and the mountain is showing the line of thought where he is trying to get to the supreme good in the world. Other people we talked about this semester were also Aristotelian in thought, including Moses, Paul, Augustine, and Benedict. Benedict was a monk who wanted to live a very strict lifestyle to become the best person he could, striving for the greater good, or God. Augustine in his confessions is saying that he needs to do better, and string for the same thing Boethius is, just in a different way. 

     Plato is talking about how we need to step outside of our "cave" and find the greater truth. People who are more Platonic in thought include Holmes, Dewey, and Basil. Basil discusses how we should be reading everything we can, including secular sources, to find the truth about God. He wants us to have a whole understanding of things. Holmes is similar in his argument for a liberal arts education. He wants people to have a wide range of understanding to be able to find the greater truth. 

     Boethius synthesizes the two. He would say that the supreme good is God, and we should strive to learn about him and get to know him in a multitude of ways. In his conversation with Philosophy the point is made that God is the supreme good, and that only through learning about him can we reach it, however we choose to learn about him. So he is in the middle of the two, as a bridge Christianize both of them and pointing everything to God.

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