Faustus is seated alone and lists all the discoveries he has studied but concludes they are useless to him.
He gives theology a final chance but he feels that it is logically inevitable that all humans sin and must die.
He turns to magic as he hopes that it will make him more godlike and capable of transcending morality.
Faustus describes Aristotle in this section as almost in sexual terms: Sweet analytics, this thous hast ravished me. Faustus decides that that Aristotle teaches that the goal of logic is to merely to dispute well. However he cannot gain anymore from this.
Each latin phrase is descibed which shows this play is for everyman.
Faustus could be seen as blasphemous - making people live for ever and raising from the dead (activities of Jesus). His desire to study medicine is only for his own gain.
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