tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049700622778824559.post596501796431945129..comments2023-10-25T12:57:56.816+02:00Comments on Diary of Dr. Logic: A not-quite-review of The Intellectual Climate of the Early University, ed. Nancy Van DeusenSara L. Uckelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14716054827293611237noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049700622778824559.post-14151267894133669112017-11-30T16:56:05.105+01:002017-11-30T16:56:05.105+01:00Clearly, I have no idea what philosophy actually i...Clearly, I have no idea what philosophy actually is. I would look in Legal History (Law, in the abstract), Economic History with a side of Education History (Economics and Education), Theology and Hagiography (historical as they are, largely), and Medical History (except in the context of Arabic areas, where food IS medicine) for those. But none of those are philosophy as I understand it.<br /><br />I think what you're driving toward is "what effects did people who studied philosophy have on your area", and the answer is: people who studied philosophy/didn't study it it would be completely swamped by the aristocratic/peasant and rural/urban divides. It's probably not impossible to gather information about it, but I think it'd tell you more a lot more about philosophers than it would about food, if you see what I mean.Drew Shielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15956894890960055533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049700622778824559.post-49539027286653871732017-11-20T10:04:31.294+01:002017-11-20T10:04:31.294+01:00Three possibilities:
(a) Law. What are the laws ...Three possibilities:<br /><br />(a) Law. What are the laws that regulate food trade? Who were they written by? People who studied law at university? What effect (if any) did their undergraduate education have on their study of law?<br /><br />(b) Who were the people actually <i>trading</i> in food products? At what point in history did they start going to university? Who were the people that employed them? Did they go to university?<br /><br />(c) Food in religious contexts. What are the religious laws and customs regarding food, how are they justified, how do monastic and clerical cultures talk about their relationship to food. (Completely leaving aside the question of transsubstantiation... :) )<br /><br />Actually, four<br />(d) Health in general: How is humoral theory connected to natural philosophy and Aristotelian views of biology? If they aren't, where are they coming from? How are they being perpetuated -- as folk remedies, or by medical doctors (who would have studied Aristotle...)?Sara L. Uckelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14716054827293611237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049700622778824559.post-37930099650090685002017-11-17T17:59:04.964+01:002017-11-17T17:59:04.964+01:00So... I know very little about medieval philosophy...So... I know very little about medieval philosophy, and I'd go so far as to say I know nothing about it. My area of study is food history, verging over into agriculture and trade on the supply side. There have been plenty of occasions where I've found I need to know some more about economics, botany, biology, or even chemistry to get a better grasp on what I'm studying, but philosophy has not arisen. I'm somewhat hard put to imagine a situation in which it would have relevance to the things I'm dealing with, but I'd be interested to see examples.Drew Shielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15956894890960055533noreply@blogger.com