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Unknown: I want to speak to you as a professor of humanities. I heard on my car radio a public service message the other day said make America smarter give to the College of your choice. And the advertisement listed the benefits which had accrued to

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American civilization from the universities. Guess what they were they were TVs and computers in the Salk vaccine and such. There was no mention of any benefit to American civilization accruing from the study of the humanities. No mention in this

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time of sexual revolution, or at least sexual confusion, I want to dare to say that our way of life is a way of love and

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of love, be a little more careful than of everything. Law is an art or science. It can it must be studied.

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The study of love is the study of literature and the practice of poetry. I am teaching of aids are Amar Toria. The Art of love.

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This quarter, a parent written in Rome about the time when Christ was born in Bethlehem. Justice history was turning from BC to AD of it and Christ.

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Both teachers of love, they both set with mutually contradictory doctrines of love to contradictory souls in the heart of Western civilization. The study of Aveda RS Ahmad Toria, the art of love is the study of love in the Western world. Love

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has the history. What happened to avid is the clue to the history of love in the Western world and functioning as a professor of humanities, and I

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am saying nothing original. I've put up on the board the chief authorities from whom I have borrowed so much. And also good books. I'm a resource person good books, that if I say anything interesting, you can pursue the topic for yourself CS

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Lewis allegory of love, fell MC in praise of love. Dniester Rouge, more love in the Western world are the chief authorities I'm using and drawing on in my story. strange as it may seem, in the 11th century AD, something happened. Something

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happened of intimate concern to all of us here now desperately trying to find a way to live. That is a way to love in the 20th century. Something happened in the 11th century AD. It was a sexual revolution. And it was a literary revolution. And the

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literary revolution was the sexual revolution. The revolutionaries were those poets We now recognize as the troubadours. Their name means the inventors

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and trovato a lead for Torah the troubadours from Provence in southern France. French poets, in The 20th century discovered or invented that romantic passion, which English

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poets were still writing about in the 19th. They are affected, effected a change which has left no corner of our ethics or imagination, or our daily life

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untouched. So CS Lewis in that book, The province troubadours rediscovered, reinvented reinterpreted of Ed's art of love and in doing so, became the

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authors of what you can call our erotic tradition. For there is a tradition in such affairs to modern love. They became the authors of modern love. It was a sexual

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revolution, or a counterculture trooper to a poetry of the 11th century AD is the emancipation proclamation of women. emancipated woman from the restricted role of wife

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it discovered outside of marriage, the new world of love. The theory of marriage was based on the idea of the physical and mental superiority of the male, the fundamental dogma of a patriarchal culture. The theory of love was founded on the

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physical and spiritual prestige of woman. There is a deep antagonism between love and marriage, in the erotic tradition of Western civilization. Our cheap commercial romances confused or cover up the issue. Our great

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literature explores it, beginning with the troubadours. One of them said, a lady must honor her lover, as a friend, not as a master. Sex, which can be claimed as a conjugal right? Is not love,

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for love is free. The great medieval treatise on love, the medieval rewrite of average art of love is Andreas

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capilano lanos. The author Andrew the chaplain is de Moray on love or de RT, en es de amandi. The Art of courtly love

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that medic evil treatise authority lays down the rule. We declare and hold firmly established that love cannot exert its powers between two

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people who are married to each other. And the reason given for lover for lovers give each other everything freely. I'm done no compulsion of necessity. But married people are in duty

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bound to give in to each other's desires and to deny themselves to each other in nothing. Marriage is a power relationship. The husband was the Lord and Master. In the counterculture of love, the woman was Supreme. She was

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dominar the mistress whereas in the political and material world Vasyl paid homage to his Lord, the source presumably of all his good. In

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the world of love, his homage was paid to his lady, the source of all his joy in defiant reversal of patriarchal values. troubadour, poetry, preaches humble submission of the lover to the lady. I remained before her hands joined on my knees

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weeping until she took me into her service. At first she was astonished at my boldness. But when she saw my humility, she received my homage for she understood that I was sincere.

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I am her Leachman and her servant. Marriage is a mercenary relationship. It is a last and was even more so in those days, inseparable from material

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considerations of property, social status, dowries, inheritances, legitimate heirs etc. The first of Andrea's cappelen has 12 rules of courtly love is thou shalt avoid avarice like the deadly pestilence and shalt embrace its opposite Love

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is the opposite of Avarice the troubadour ideal of the troubadour ideal have seen

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more. Fine, nice word fene. More, was pure love

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free of any vulgar material considerations. I have myself renounced the love of a wealthy Lady of highest state,

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that I might not incur the stain of shameful pleasures, whose vulgar gross pneus is unredeemed by any delicacy, or honor.

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Therefore, females are more had to be outside of marriage. The compromise with power and property, the compromise with power and property, inherent in the Christian ordinance of marriage was challenged by a counterculture, which asserted

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that only an adulterous love could be truly spiritual. Only adulterous love can be spiritual. It was a split in the heart of Christendom, a rebellion against Christian

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orthodoxy from which Western civilization has not recovered. And it was the inevitable consequence of the rediscovery of love. For the love that,

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with the aid of love it was rediscovered was pagan love. It was passionate love. And the Christian church could not alter its position,

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that passion, carnal passion, passion, which knows no moderation, which overthrows the rules of reason, is precisely the work of the devil. The Fathers of the Christian church are still wrestling with the theory of sexuality.

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I follow see in a controversial matter here I follow the exposition of CS Lewis As the most orthodox, Christian thinker,

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that I can find here in the eyes of the church, passion, sexual desire is an evil upon punishment for the fall of Adam. But sex is

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permissible, even meritorious inside marriage, if it has the right causes such as desire for offspring. But if the sexual act even inside marriage is caused by passion, it is a mortal sin. It is adultery,

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Andrea's copper Lana's are arguing that love cannot exist between married couples. quotes the APA stoic law reiterated by many Fathers of the Church, that passionate love of one's own wife is adultery. Every passionate lover of his own wife

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is an adulterer. It was the church that threw passion out of marriage, and made the war between love and marriage inevitable. Seen are more

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is a counter religion. Law. Love calls us to the things of this world. And irreversible change occurred in the psychic history of Western Christian civilization. When for the first time some lover poet in

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adoration of the body of a woman. First explain, exclaimed, here is my heaven. Her beauty comes from highest heaven, so much does it resemble

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the work of paradise? That hardly does her beauty seem to be of this world? In the medieval romance, which told of the adulterous love of Lancelot for Guinevere, Lancelot is represented as honoring Brittany fear, as if she were a saint,

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or a divine or divine. When he comes to her bed, he kneels and adores her. There is no core saint, medieval French word, body saint, there is no body of a

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saint or holy relic, in which he has greater faith. When he leaves her chamber. He makes a genuflection, as if he were before a shrine in Provence in the 11th and 12th centuries, a counterculture to

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shape a counterculture have seen our more courtly love. It had its own God are more a political fiction indeed. But no one who reads the poetry of the period will ever doubt

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the poetic fictions can make and shake a world. It had its own authoritative scriptures of its art of love. its own code of manners, and Andreas cappelen has its own quotes,

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presided over by lady's such great mistresses, as Eleanor of Aquitaine, or mowdy have shown pine Yeah.

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It had its own God, Amore. And Andreas calphalon has even has a compelling vision of the life app. to death,

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in which the God of love are more gives to each one his deserts, according as he has done good or evil in life, and the dead are divided into three groups. In the first group are those most blessitt women who knew how to

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conduct themselves wisely, towards the soldiers of love, to show every favor to those who wish to love and to give appropriate answers to those who under pretense of love, sought to love falsely. In the second group are those shameless women

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who did not fear to subject themselves to the pleasure of every man, and assented to the lust of any man who asked them. The third group are those most wretched of all women, who while they live, closed the Palace of love to all who wish to enter

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it, and rejected all who asked to serve in loves army. The counterculture of phenol more, was the very opposite of

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that permissive decadence, which we see in the decline of Rome. In the first century AD, or in the decline of the West, in the 20th century AD. Thien amore was a new refinement. There is an

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extraordinary paradox. At the heart of troubadour poetry, a paradox extremely hard for us to grasp, psychologically. On the one hand, put love poetry is extremely sensual. On the other hand, they are never tired of contrasting true love with

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sensual love. sincerity and constancy were of the essence of true love. The vulgar pleasure seeker, the gay deceiver, those base souls who sought a momentary satisfaction by pretending a sincerity they did not feel were rigorously

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excluded. The worst of all was to seek pleasure without love. This is folly. Miss. lecturing seen more,

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was paradoxically a school of chastity. The lady's honor is sacred. I am the guardian of her honor. And if human fragility causes an unruly desire to be born in me, I shall triumph over it by the

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strength of my love. My beloved, there cannot come to me complete joy from you. If your merit must suffer from it, Your Honor, is as dear to me as your beautiful body. Pete Rock,

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one of the great Italian poets who transmitted the troubadour invention, to the whole of Europe. Pete Rock praises his beloved Laura, his mistress.

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unmoved by my entreaties, unyielding to my caress, she safeguarded her honor, and in spite of her youth, in spite of her youth and mine, in spite of 1000 circumstances that could have that could have bent a heart of adamant she Dude her

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ground resolute an unsub dude. Yes, this womanly soul taught me what should be the honor and duty of a man. A true lover in feen are more set a bound to his desire. But this very fact involved a heightening of sensuality. It brought about the

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concentration of enormous sexual energy on the slightest contact, a glance, a touch of the hand, a word of greeting, could be world shaking events, and literally worth so for example, in Dante's relations with a nine year old Beatrice

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perhaps the last word on love in the Western world, belongs to the philosopher Nietzsche. I sometimes claim to know how to spell his name.

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Perhaps the last word belongs to Nietzsche. In one of his biting aphorisms, he says the spiritual ization of sensuality is called love. It represents a great triumph over Christianity. The spiritualization of sensuality

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is called love. It represents a great triumph over Christianity. The troubadours invented something new in the way of love making. The true lover is in love with love. courtship became

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an end in itself and an art in itself. courtship court a sia courtesy.

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Life itself became a work of art, requiring the greatest sensitivity and taste the gentle heart

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called core genteel, and also the intellect of love. Intellectual d'amore. I use the words of the Italian poets who universalized the significance of the troubadour inventions, the gentle heart and the

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intellect of love. The intellect of love. Since the intellectual faculty is the distinctive characteristic of the human

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being, to love, humanly, is to love intellectually. To love humanly is to love intellectually. That is what the humanities are about. ought to be

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Thank you.