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| Terrapin Fan Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6611 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English, Arabic (Written) Studies: Russian | Message 17 of 17 26 October 2006 at 10:58am | IP Logged |
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I read an autobiography of Oxford philosopher Anthony Kenny, who before receiving his doctorate from Oxford and becoming an Oxford don (Master of Balliol) was a Jesuit who got his doctorate from The Gregorianum in Rome. He was studying in Rome in the late 1950's-early 1960's and he said the classes-- scholastic philosophy and theology-- were taught in Latin. He had some very interesting things to say, like how difficult is was for him to follow lectures in Latin from Hungarian and Germans, and how Americans spoke Latin with a drawl. He also said Frederick Copleston (the noted English Jesuit historian of philosophy) hated to lecture in Latin and would frequently quote large portions from English to get the non-anglophones to drop his class so he could switch to lecturing in English (allowed when 100% of the students spoke one language). Apparently the reason for this was that Copleston was teaching contemporary philosophy and it is exceedingly difficult to discuss Wittgenstein and logical positivism in Latin. Edited by Terrapin Fan on 26 October 2006 at 11:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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