Columbia Professor's Speech Celebrates Dante's Birthday
By Earl Haehl
The 700th Celebration of Dante's Birthdate will be the occasion when Joseph A. Mazzeo, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, speaks at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Hall, "Meditation and Order; Dante's Three Communities," will be his theme.
At an SUA Forum yesterday, he spoke on the history of ideas and literature. In his lecture, he gave a skeleton outline of the history of man's ideas. He said that only recently has the history of ideas been of importance.
Aristotle ignored the history of ideas. Diogenes Laeartes did have a history but it amounted to a "gossip sheet about philosophers," he said.
THE GREEK LOGIC was "How can there be a history of ideas?" Ideas were more of a "direction for life."
The early Christian thinkers saw a pattern in history. But it
The philosophers of Germany began the study of the history of ideas. Admitting that he was oversimplifying, Mazzeo said that Hegel invented the philosophy of the "spirit of the age."
was too simple—history involved the creation, the fall, and the redemption of mankind.
He said great philosophers do not necessarily propagate the great ideas of an age. "Ideas are found with insignificant artists and minor writers."
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This elaborate philosophy enabled the historians to study an idea, or a piece of literature, in relation to the total age in which it was produced.
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This knowledge of the culture gives a fuller view of the work. Conditions form philosophies and philosophies appear in print, he said.
the new writers. "The language never recovers from a poet. . . Poets create language," Mazzeo said.
AFTER THE LECTURE, Mazzeo answered questions from the floor. In his answers he made several observations.
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