Mysticism Europe

When1: 1050

When2: 1180

Who: Mysticism

What: philosophic school

Where: Europe

Detail: School grew out of Neo-Platonism and included Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter Damian, Manegold of Lantenbach, Joachim Floris, Dominicus Gundissalinus, Arnold of Brescia, and Amaury of Bene. They were orthodox or heretical mystics.

Epistemology

Body knows world, reason knows self, and soul knows God. Knowledge forms use imagination.

Ethics

Life is progression toward salvation.

Mind

Soul and body are completely separate. God's power unites people's souls and bodies. Souls have feelings, not intellect. Soul's highest stage is contemplation and love of God and final unity with God. Mental states and activities have classes that arise and develop to fit into mental life.

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