John of Salisbury on the Danger of Dialectic Decoupled

Although the rise of Renaissance humanism is usually seen as a movement out of the Middle Ages toward modernity, Robert Black has cogently argued that much of the humanist platform was conservative in nature. The humanists wished to dethrone dialectic from its place of priority within the trivium, a place it secured in the twelfth century, as enthusiastic scholars poured over recently recovered Aristotelian treatises.

Enthusiasm was not the only sentiment among twelfth-century intellectuals. A few foresaw the coming domination of the trivium by dialectic and launched a valient, albeit fruitless, counter-attack. Among the foremost of these was John of Salisbury. Although he is better known for his larger works, Metalogicon and Policraticus, his agenda shines brightly in a curiously-titled lesser work, Entheticus. It features a number of poems, often satirical, written in elegiac couplets. He depicts an intellectual culture gone crazed over mere words and the logical, mechanical relationships between. Language becomes a kind of specialist sport while the weightier matters of good culture and morals go ignored. Such a critique would be perfectly at home in the mouth of Erasmus or Petrarch.

Logica quid valeat, aut cur placeat sapienti,

Dicturus, faciem philosophantis adi.

Qui sequitur sine mente sonum, qui verba capessit,

Non sensum, iudex integer esse nequit.

Cum vim verborum dicendi causa ministret,

Haec si nescitur, quid nisi ventus erunt?

Quae bonus auditor pensat de mente loquentis,

Non quovis sensu, quem sibi verba ferunt,

Ut tamen assistat verbis lex recta loquendi,

Qua sine non poterunt pondus habere suum!

Aucupium verbi iampridem iussit ab aula

Lex Romana, sed hoc praetor iniquus amat.

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Philosophia quid est, nisi fons, via, duxque salutis,

Lux animae, vitae regula, grata quies?

Non equidem motus valet exstirpare molestos,

Sed nocuos reprimit et ratione domat;

Nec nocet assultus hostis leviter perituri,

Qui manet, ut noceat, bestia saeva minus.

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John McDonnell denies contradicting Jeremy Corbyn as he backs PM and blames Vladimir Putin for Salisbury spy attack itv.com/news/2018-03-18/j…
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John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 [1536x1230]
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John McDonnell denies contradicting Jeremy Corbyn as he backs PM and blames Vladimir Putin for Salisbury spy attack itv.com/news/2018-03-18/j…
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John Pilger – Beyond the headlines on Syria, Salisbury, Yemen & North Korea youtube.com/watch?v=OIok3…
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John Pilger special – Beyond the headlines on Syria, Salisbury, Yemen & North Korea - RT youtube.com/watch?v=OIok3…
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Russian suspects in poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal say they visited Salisbury as "tourists" to see "the famous cathedral" and its 123 metre spire bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro…
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We said goodbye to our best, good girl 'Luna' on Saturday. This is one of the last pics before her cancer diagnosis. We were at "Hopper's" in Salisbury, MD last Fall, a boy we didn't know cuddled up next to her. His Mom said he'd always been scared of Dogs, but somehow he knew her loving nature.
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Yulia Skripal, poisoned daughter of ex-Russian spy, has been discharged from hospital in Salisbury bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4371012…
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TIL in 2019 the Largest individual political donation was by Lord Salisbury of Β£8 Million Pounds to the Lib Dems. The largest Conservative donors gave Β£1 million pounds while the largest individual labour donations was a bequest of Β£115,000 search.electoralcommissio…
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[Salisbury] Phillies announce they will retire No. 34 in honor of Roy Halladay on May 29 twitter.com/jsalisburynbc…
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MI6 used newly-turned Russian agent to help identify Salisbury attackers: The Russian military agents who tried to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal were identified with the help of a recently-turned Russian agent, according to intelligence sources. express.co.uk/news/uk/101…
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Russian TV thrown out of Salisbury hospital after trying to undermine spy assassination attempt claims - A Russian TV crew has been thrown out of the hospital where former spy Sergei Skripal is still receiving treatment, after attempting to cast doubt on the nerve agent scandal. telegraph.co.uk/news/2018…
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One of the more remarkable things about today's Salisbury briefing is that the two alleged Russian hitmen relied on a Sunday rail service to get them from Waterloo to Salisbury and then out again to Heathrow in one day. No sane Brit would have tried such an outlandish gamble. twitter.com/ByTomWells/st…
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NY state police arrest and charge Sue E. Hutting, 61, of New Haven, Vermont, and Brittany N. Glover, 35, of Salisbury, Vermont, for possessing large quantities of heroin, fentanyl meant for Vermont poststar.com/news/local/s…
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[Salisbury] Source: MLB will suspend Odubel Herrera for the rest of this season and part of next. twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club, Salisbury Crags. c.1908
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UK Prime Minister BorisJohnson tells President Putin there will be no normalisation of UK-Russia relations until Moscow β€œends the destabilising activity that threatens the UK and our allies”. He also condemned Salisbury attack, 10DowningStreet says twitter.com/haynesdeborah…
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Salisbury - Brandy Halladay said Roy will go into Hall with no team logo on cap. It is out of respect for Toronto and Philly, two cities he loved twitter.com/jsalisburynbc…
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[Salisbury] Phillies announce they have signed INF Ronald Torreyes to a minor league deal with invite to big league camp. He played for Joe Girardi w NYY. Also announce signing of C Christian Bethancourt to minors deal with invite twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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Wasteland Travel Number 76: Hey! Look at that! 76 wasteland travel logs! And it's been amazing making every one of them! I couldn't go to Vault 76 and take a photo there again so i decided to hike up to the Whitesprings and celebrate this milestone with a Salisbury Steak and a Nuka-Cola!
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[Salisbury] Aaron Nola scratched from today’s start because of flu. Bullpen game. twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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Head of the Appalachian Trail near Salisbury
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[Salisbury] β€œHearing the Jay Bruce deal is complete. Not out of question he is in Dodger Stadium for series finale today. Phillies need win to avoid sweep.” twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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Britain drew the ire of Russia on Friday after it fined the Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT Β£200,000 for "serious" bias in its coverage of last year's Salisbury nerve agent poisoning and the Syria conflict france24.com/en/20190726-…
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Moscow spinning new web of spies in Britain after UK 'dismantles' unit behind Salisbury attack telegraph.co.uk/news/2019…
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PM pays tribute to Salisbury as a β€œbeautiful, welcoming English city” in @10downingstreet tweet using a photo of... BATH twitter.com/MattChorley/s…
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Six microwaved salisbury steaks, fresh out of the microwave.
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Salisbury couple are fresh victims of the Novichok attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal telegraph.co.uk/news/2018…
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Hello. If anyone found a black box in front of the Salisbury exchange on Friday afternoon there will be a reward. If I don't find it I'll lose my job. Simple as that. Please help.
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Russian state media sends chocolate models of Salisbury Cathedral as β€˜sick’ gift referencing novichok attack independent.co.uk/news/wo…
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[Weinman] Dave in Salisbury just called @radioterryford and me @1057TheFan . He's thrilled with the Orioles drafting of "Adalee Rustmuffin" twitter.com/kenweinmanspo…
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[Salisbury] A moment of silent respect from the Royals for David Montgomery twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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[Salisbury] Bobby Abreu has been elected to the Phillies Wall of Fame. He will be honored Aug. 3 as part of Alumni weekend twitter.com/JSalisburyNBC…
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Stained glass of St. George in St. Thomas & St. Edmunds Church in Salisbury, England. According to legend, the soldier-saint appeared during the First Crusade’s Siege of Antioch (1097) and Jerusalem (1099), and again during the Third Crusade (1189-1192) to Richard the Lionheart.
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The fantastic gothic spire of Salisbury Cathedral
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The 170+ year old Victoria Tower as it stands today. Originally built to aid ships by providing an accurate time and warning of meteorological changes, the clocktower is now a grade II Listed building and still stands on Salisbury Dock.
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Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club climbing the Salisbury Crags in 1908 [743x533]
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'Thank God I’m alive’: FedEx driver survives 75-foot fall from Salisbury bridge wsoctv.com/news/local/fed…
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Tonight I made an incredibly comforting Salisbury steak recipe (using beyond ground meat) and a mushroom/onion brown gravy over rice. Easily goes down as one of the best recipes I’ve ever attempted!
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Donald Trump β€˜felt misled over expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats for Salisbury attack’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2018…
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Keir Starmer says the attack in Salisbury should be "condemned by all of us without reservation" and backs the actions taken by the Prime Minister twitter.com/bbcquestionti…
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Here's another one of my favorite dinners. Salisbury Steak.. It's so easy, but it tastes so darn good. I cooked it on the Weber Spirit, but you can do it anywhere. youtu.be/VGJ42TeEVSE
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[Salisbury, NC] This guy was in our pool last year, I’m thinking just a regular water snake but some of y’all are more knowledgeable than me.
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The sickening silhouettes of far people stood on the on Salisbury Crags cliffs
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LM086 - Motion on the Use of Salisbury - DIVISION

Motion on the Use of Salisbury


This House recognises that:-

  • Prior to its Establishment through the Acts of Supremacy passed by this House, the Church in England enjoyed rich traditions of local forms of Christian publick worship pre-dating the forms now Authorised for publick use by this parliament in the Act of Uniformity.
  • The forms now Authorised hold significant literary, religious, and cultural significance to the English speaking world.
  • The abolition of forms used by the English Church prior to those introduced by this parliament is just as grave a crime against their value and significance as it would be to abolish the PRAYER BOOK.

Therefore, this House calls for:-

  • The forms known as the Use of SALISBURY or the Use of SARUM be restored as legal forms of publick Christian worhsip in the Established Church.
  • The free and encouraged use of the SARUM Rite in publick worship for use by the Church in England, alongside the other legal forms of publick worship which hold strong tradition within this land.

This motion was submitted by the Rt Hon. The Lord of Newcastle-on-Clun.


Vote "Content", "Not Content" or "Present" only.

Division ends Thursday 6th June 2019 at 10PM BST. Results shall be posted on Friday 7th June 2019.

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July 7th Kowloon Short March: Gather Point @3:30 Salisbury Garden, ends at West Kowloon Station. Letter of No Objection from police obtained! (Means it's legal) imgur.com/a/mI0lMf3
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