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Undergraduate 1
03/19/2009

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Otium (More)
Definition
peace, rest, contemplation
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Negotium
Definition
business. A life of negotiation.  The opposite of otium: the lack of peace, rest, contemplation.
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Humanism
Definition
study of humanities (studia humanitates).  Text-based cirriculum focused on the importance of reading, studying rhetoric, moral philosophy, grammar.  Natural philosophy. Social program dedicated to the public good
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Carthusian
Definition
severe group of monks that lived in small cells and spent most of their time in solitude
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Humanism
Definition
spread of literacy to laity = rise of administrators, counselors, government officials (like More) = corresponding ideal of public service
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lay person
Definition
Book one raises a set of problems and questions about what it means to be a literate lay person – deep internal contradiction and conflict
Debate over active/contemplative central to this conflict
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Self
Definition
balance of leisure and work = balance of self and society
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Studia humanitates
Definition
social and individual betterment
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