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The Central Middle Ages — Logic, Theology and Cosmology

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Medieval Thought

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Abstract

Viewed from the perspective of the ancient philosophical tradition, the history of thought in the period c. 1000 to c. 1150 comprises two main strands. First, there is the Aristotelian contribution, which may be fairly said to be the more distinctive. Nothing is so characteristic of the thought of the eleventh and early twelfth centuries as the way in which Aristotle’s logic at once stimulated a desire for intellectual order and was grasped as the means to achieve it. Secondly, there is the Platonist contribution. Directly and indirectly it exercised important influences on the intellectual life of the time. Its most direct influence was on the cosmological speculations of the twelfth century. Some note has already been taken of the Platonist sources on which these rested and more will be said in due course. Of the indirect influences of Platonism, two stand out. The twelfth century sees the revival of a philosophical mysticism based on the Neoplatonist tradition as known especially through the works of the pseudo-Denis. It is associated principally with the school of St Victor at Paris, most notably with Hugh and Richard of St Victor. The second indirect influence of Platonism at this time is the most pervasive of all. It derived from the recognition accorded to St Augustine as the greatest of the Latin fathers.

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A. Bibliography of Works in English

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