{"id":10523,"date":"2026-05-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:31:19","slug":"what-is-the-scholastic-logic-behind-universals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10523","title":{"rendered":"Semiotics and History &#8211; Baroque Scholasticism and Early Modernism (Part 1 of 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SaH0043 The Baroque scholastics of southern and central Europe live at the same time as the mechanical philosophers of northern and western Europe.\u00a0\u00a0The latter give rise to the\u00a0<em>Age of Fiction,<\/em>\u00a0with Cervantes publishing Don Quixote in the early 1600s.\u00a0\u00a0The former give rise to the\u00a0<em>Age of Ideas,<\/em>\u00a0with the birth of modern science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it is not as neat as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently,\u00a0<em>an examination of an article by Novotny<\/em>\u00a0serves as a capstone for Razie Mah&#8217;s online course on\u00a0<em>Baroque Scholasticism<\/em>\u00a0and as an introduction to an online course in <em>Early Modernism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Baroque Scholasticism<\/em>&nbsp;consists of&nbsp;<em>Looking at<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Daniel Novotny&#8217;s Book (2013) Ens Rationis from Suarez to Caramuel<\/em>&nbsp;(and appears in Razie Mah&#8217;s blog in May, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The capstone for&nbsp;<em>Baroque Scholasticism<\/em>&nbsp;and the introduction to&nbsp;<em>&#8230;and Early Modernism<\/em>&nbsp;consists of&nbsp;<em>Looking at Daniel Novotny&#8217;s Article (2017) Izquierdo on Universals<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Baroque Scholasticism and Early Modernism<\/em>&nbsp;consist of a review of&nbsp;<em>Eric Santner&#8217;s Book (2016) The Weight of All Flesh.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SaH0044 Both are strands in the course:&nbsp;<em>Semiotics and History<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Razie Mah&#8217;s blog for February 3, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SaH0043 The Baroque scholastics of southern and central Europe live at the same time as the mechanical philosophers of northern and western Europe.\u00a0\u00a0The latter give rise to the\u00a0Age of Fiction,\u00a0with Cervantes publishing Don Quixote in the early 1600s.\u00a0\u00a0The former give rise to the\u00a0Age of Ideas,\u00a0with the birth of modern science. 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