Historical Flashcards
Who was Ignatious Loyola, simply put?
Loyola was a Counter-Reformationist who formed the Jesuitical Society which methodologized and wed dogma woth reason for the first time. He was also a cripple.
Ignatius Loyola had am affinity for what staple of rational dogma?
He was invested in intellectual abstraction, law, procedure, and structure.
What did Ignatius Loyola do which symbolized his transformation into the West’s first rational technocrat?
He sought discretion by costuming himself in simplicity.
Was the Inquisition for or against Ignatius?
The Inquisition did not support Loyola in his political and religious growth.
Was Loyola’s society born with the propensity to create elitism? Or was it elitist in its intention?
According to Saul, the idea of first needing to enter an esoteric society with a particular method aimed at indoctrinating and “reasoning with the public” is brazenly elitist both in intention and structure.
What did Loyola accomplish politically?
He gradually reduced the religious wars from a fanatical level of belief to the practicalities of political interests. Practical means negotiable.
How powerful was the Society?
17 years after its creation in 1539, it had 1,000 members. By 1700 there were 20,000- THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL FORCE IN THE WEST. They were running most European governments behind the scenes and ran the colonies almost, if not completely, directly. Even the pope was scared of them and managed to have the society disbanded in 1723z
Who was the first to have a dictatorship over vocabulary?
Ignatius Loyola in his suggestions to change or eliminate information.
