D&D and Scholastic Cosmology
Channel: Professor McCoige
Date: 2022-04-01

D&D's Forgotten Realms setting has a surprisingly authentic medieval cosmological framework. In this video we examine the "Great Wheel" cosmology of the Forgotten Realms in comparison to the real world historical cosmology of the Christian Middle Ages, as well as examining some of the differences and the reasons for those differences. 

Related Materials: 
Actuality/Potentiality distinction: https://youtu.be/2ed9h9fPql4
On the nature of good and evil: https://youtu.be/0f17YmXsezY
Another lecture on the nature of good and evil: https://youtu.be/T6QxcR3u60M
Aristotle on form and matter: https://youtu.be/qi2qMi6IHUk

Introduction (00:00)
D&D's "Great Wheel" cosmology (01:08)
Medieval cosmology (06:07)
Comparing the two (11:15)
Good & Evil in D&D (12:42)
Concluding thoughts (19:53)