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Averroes, y la crítica de Avicena
Authors: PUIG MONTADA Josep
Published: May 2018

In his refutation of the philosophers, the Muslim theologian al-Ghazzali (d. 1111) argues for the incoherency of their doctrines on divine causality. He focuses his criticism on Avicenna's (d. 1037) distinction between being necessary per se, and being possible per se, although necessary because of another. When Averroes (d. 1198), on his turn, rebates al-Ghazzali's work, he points out that the doctrines ascribed to the philosophers, are those of Avicenna, and not of Aristotle and often distances himselffrom the later.
Corona in capite. Juan de Salisbury y Dante Alighieri
Authors: GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ Martin
Published: May 2018

Exam of affinities and differences in the philosophy, of them qualified representatives of the Humanism of the XII and XIV centuries, John of Salisbury and Dante Alighieri respectively, through a compared study of Policraticus and De Monarchia; to the light of the secularization process of the culture and european thoughts at the end of the Medieval Age.
Sobre algunos conceptos políticos fundamentales en el pensamiento de Tomás de Aquino
Authors: ALVIRA Rafael
Published: May 2018

The author explains some political concepts in the light of the thought of St. Thomas of Aquino. He also appoints the importance of the philosophy of «to have» in order to understand the human being. We get material things, but we especially get will, senses, virtues, family, company, State, etc. Man is the only being that requires the owning for his perfection.
La natura analogica del bene: radice metafísica della libertà della scelta in Tommaso d'Aquino
Authors: BERGAMINO Federica
Published: May 2018

The paper aims to show how the act of free will in Thomas Aquinas is not exercised merely in the choice between good an evil, but consists more essentially in the free choice ofthe better. What plays the key role in the analysis is Thomas's metaphysical conception of the good and its relationship to the free subject. The special causality of the good -and more concretely, of the particular good- is noted, and then choice is examined in light of the analogical nature of the «better».
Saturnalia. Juan de Salisbury y los Goliardos
Authors: GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ Martín
Published: May 2018

The relation among the cultured satire of John of Salisbury and the popular contemporary satire of the goliards are studied, showing the affinities and differences between them.
Hildegarda de Bingen. La tensión cuerpo-alma y la personalidad humana
Authors: LÉRTORA MENDOZA Celina
Published: May 2018

This work analyses a number of texts of the medical book Physica, by Hildegarde of Bingen (1098- 1179), in which we can see some relatiosships between the natural medicaments (plants, animals and minerals) that operate on the body on certain psychophysical morbid states produced by diabolical influence. These texts show an anthropological tendency that guides to a more integrating vision of the relationships soul-body as constitutive elements of the human personality.
El hombre: una singularidad en el universo físico ockhamista
Authors: LARRE Olga
Published: May 2018

Since William of Ockham has never made a systematic and thorough analysis of the anthropological issue, the author reconstructs the theme on the basis of considerations taken from his several physical and theological works. The Ockhamist methodological approach is the same used to study the natural world: experience-based knowledge, individual- based terminist logic and the principle of economy (Ockham’s razor). However, Ockham stresses the individual against the deterministic universe of matter. It is a privileged entity: with its nature of material being, it takes part of the features and perfections of the natural world- both inanimate and animate beings; and with its freedom, it infinitely transcends the deterministic universe of physics. Taking the above as a starting point, the author considers, firstly, the physical and metaphysical definitions given by the philosopher; and she shows the consequences resulting from them and the specific limitations established by Ockham. Then, she analyzes the main constituent of both definitions: the spiritual soul; she does so by examining the main features is a central point in the Ockhamist anthropology where the mere reason is insufficient to reach the truth; it is the faith the one that should complete the scope of this knowledge.
Francisco de Vitoria: La sociedad internacional, un ideal realizable
Authors: REDONDO REDONDO María L.
Published: May 2018

Victoria's idea of International Society is not an unfeasible Utopia. The harmony between experience/reason and reason/faith which he imbibes from St. Thomas Aquinas can be appreciated in his methodology. His anthropology is also realistic, that is to say, objectivistic: human nature is the same in all men; their dignity and rights as persons are not given or taken by their faith. Vitoria applies to the Indians the Tomist thesis on the person and the relationship faith/reason, nature/over nature.
“Clavis aurea”. Enseñanza y método en el siglo XII
Authors: RAÑA DAFONTE César
Published: May 2018

Teaching methodology was cerefully nurtured and improved at twelfth century urban schools. That is what wil be analyzed in this paper, special attention will be paid to the most significant magistri of the time: Bernard of Chartres, P. Abaelard, Hugh of St. Victor, John of Salisbury.
Sobre la relación de alma y cuerpo en Alberto Magno
Authors: TELLKAMP Jörg A.
Published: May 2018

The main purpose of this article consists in giving account of Albert the Great’s arguments against an array of materialism explanations of the soul. The point of departure is the question whether the soul can be reduced to a mechanical principle of movement. In order to clarify this issue, a short characterization of the concept «mechanicus» is in order. Following this, Albert’s stance regarding materialist, mainly atomist explanations of the soul is presented. It will be shown that his solution to the problem of the relation of soul and body in not derived from the falsity of materialism, but from his basic assumption that the soul has per se an existence independent from the body in which it occurs. Hence, his criticism of materialist theories of the relation of soul and body either is not designed to resolve any soul-body problem or it simply begs the question.
ARatio lucerna. La razón como guía en el siglo XII / Ratio Lucena. Reason as a Guide in the 12th Century
Authors: RAÑA DAFONTE Cesár
Published: May 2018

This paper intends to enhance the great relevance that the promotion of reason received in the XIIth century. The main representatives of thought in this century can be considered, at least in a certain sense, as antecedents to what later was the European Illustration. Indeed their emphasis on rationality is huge.
La creación según el pensamiento de san Agustín y el De opificio mundi de Filón de Alejandría. Similitudes y diferencias / Creation According to St. Augustine’s Thought and Philo of Alexandria’s De opificio mundi. Similarities and Differences
Authors: POWTER Alejandro
Published: May 2018

This paper approaches a comparative reading of Philo of Alexandria’s De opificio mundi and Saint Augustine’s exegesis of Genesis. The topics studied are creation order, the relation between “inteligible world” and “sky of the sky”, and the paralelism between the divine Light and Logos.
El intelecto agente en el siglo XIV / "Intellectum agens" in the 14th Century
Authors: SELLÉS Juan F.
Published: May 2018

In this paper we study the agent intellect in the XIV century. This work is divided into 3 different parts: Averroism (Ioannes de Janduno, Marsilius Paduanus, Paulus ofVenice andan anonymous author). Nominalism (Gulielmus of Ockham and Ioannes Buridanus), eclecticism (Theodorus Metochites and Petrus of Ailly) and reductionism (Nicolas Oresmes). Potencialism (Aegidius Romanus, Radulfus Brito, Walter Burley andan another anonymous author).
El amor a la verdad según san Agustín de Hipona / The Love of Truth Sccording to Saint Augustine of Hippo
Authors: LAZCANO Rafael
Published: May 2018

The love for the truth encompasses Augustine´s life. His yearning for truth is rooted in his concrete and personal existence. The desire to know worries him restlessly. He is deeply aware of the difficulties intelligence must face to find truth. Love is the path to truth for it is love that fosters the yearning for truth. On his own road to truth, Augustine meets several companions. Deeply in love with truth, he never finds himself alone. A wide social network will help him walk with unparalleled depth that inner road where his adventure to discover truth grows. It is not a thoroughly planned quest like in Scolasticism, but it builds and feeds itself on deeply authentic experiences, critical reflexion and an voracious desire to find truth. Augustine wants not to deceive nor to be deceived. Life and thought are entwined in this philosopher of truth. Embedded in the culture of his times —mostly literary and based on the study of the classics’ rhetoric and philosophy—, Saint Augustine redefines and widens the search for truth to include Christian wisdom. His quest for truth leads him to the Truth and to embrace it with love in order to pursue hiw own life´s journey anchored in Truth.
El amor a la verdad según san Alberto Magno / The Love for the Truth According St. Albert the Great
Authors: RUBIO Mercedes
Published: May 2018

Albert the Great extracts the best contributions of Neo-Platonism and Aristotelism. He examines the Aristotelian doctrine on the desire for truth present in human nature and the science of Metaphysics, which allows for an inkling of the source of such desire, but this desire is examined more in-depth by the Pseudo-Dionysius, being Theology the science that grants more answers and the most universal because it enables for greater perfection, not just intellectual but of the whole person.
El amor a la verdad en Tomás de Aquino / Love for Truth in Thomas Aquinas
Authors: GONZÁLEZ AYESTA Cruz
Published: May 2018

The aim of this paper is to give an account of Aquinas’s doctrine of moral dimension of pursuit of truth. The article is divided into three sections. First of them deals with the notion of truth in epistemic perspective (judgment and truth). The second one is about truth inasmuch as a certain good and end not only of intellect but of human being. In the third one the consecuences of the previous statements are given. It is about the rol of intellectual and moral virtues in knowledge and in the pursuit of truth. In this final section the main topic of the paper is a central issue: love for truth is need to reach, truth given that virtue is defined as ordo amoris.
El concepto de creación en Santo Tomás y algunos antecedentes suyos / The Concept of Creation in Saint Thomas and Some Antecesors
Authors: BEUCHOT Mauricio
Published: May 2018

In this work is intended to draw the historical line of the doctrines of the creation from the Greeks unto Saint Thomas. He is the one that makes the synthesis of the explications of the creation given by the Holy Fathers in the Patristic Tradition an also in the Medieval Tradition. He avoids the expressions who approachs to pantheism or emanatism and acheives a very clear and orthodox exposition.
Dos versiones irreductibles del intelecto agente en el s. XVII: tomismo y escotismo / Two Opposite Versions of the Agent Intellect Defended in the 17th century: Thomism and Scotism
Authors: SELLÉS Juan F.
Published: May 2018

In the XVIIth century the philosophers defend two opposite versions of the agent intellect that had its beginning in the XIIIth century: the Thomism and the Scotism. In this article we study one Spanish representative author of each one of them: Francisco Palanco (Thomist) and Francisco Alonso Malpartida (Scotist). The both of them defend the existence of the agent intellect in man, its abstractive function, and both deny that in this life we can not know naturally without abstraction. But the first one maintains the real distinction between the agent and the possible intellect, whereas the second one sustains that their distinction is only formal.
Fray Antonio de Fuentelapeña y la racionalidad de los animales / Antonio de Fuentelapeña and the Rationality of Beasts
Authors: RODRÍGUEZ PARDO José M.
Published: May 2018

Capuchin monk Antonio de Fuentelapeña wrote in 1676 El ente dilucidado, work of scholastic philosophy in which his author tried to probe the existence of spirits. Subsequents critics judged the book like an extravagance and insanity, without reparing in his scholastics arguments, which analized a lot of very important philosophical topics, like animal rationality, very famous today because of the study of comparative animal behaviour, Ethology.
Communio linguarum y legibilidad del mundo en el pensamiento patrístico de Agustín de Hipona. Reconstrucción de un doble debate retrospectivo / Communio linguarum and World’s Legibility in Agustín of Hipona’s Patristic Thought. A Double Retrospective Debate’s Reconstruction
Authors: Ortiz de Landázuri Carlos
Published: May 2018

The discrepancies shown by Hans Blumenberg and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggenann are reconstructed respect to the decisive role played by the Christian philosophy of Saint Agustine, according with Étienne Gilson 50 years before. His kinky heuristic way is justified of conceiving relationships between the different ways of knowledge and language, undoubtedly his great contribution to the genesis of the Western spirituality.
Santo Tomás de Aquino y el Motor inmóvil / Aquinas and the Unmoved Mover
Authors: TORRIJOS CASTRILLEJO David
Published: May 2018

Alexander of Aphrodisias understood the Aristotle ́s Unmoved Mover as efficient cause only to the extent that it is the final cause of heaven, which by moving strives to imitate the divine rest. Aquinas seems to agree with him. However his interpretation is original and philosophically more satisfactory: God is the efficient cause of the world, not only as creator, but also as it ́s ruler. In this way God is also the final cause.
Dominium, poder civil y su problemática en el Nuevo Mundo según Francisco de Vitoria / Dominium, Civil Power and its Problems in the New World, According to Francisco de Vitoria
Authors: MÉNDEZ ALONZO Manuel
Published: May 2018

The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the philosophical problems that derived of the Spanish conquest of America in the perspective of the Spanish Dominican Francisco de Vitoria. Specifically this paper will try to prove that Vitoria considered the Indian commonwealths in the New World, or least some of them, as genuine political entities with the same rights to exercise dominium of their lands and goods as their Europeans counterparts. To justify this, it will be necessary to analyzed key concepts in Vitoria’s thought such as dominium, natural law, and the origins of the civil society. Nevertheless, at the end, it will be examined in which ways Vitoria considers Indian commonwealths inferior to the Europeans, in order to justify the Spanish conquista of the New World.
Notas en la construcción del lenguaje escolástico como lectura lineal de lo real / Notes in the Construction of the Scholastic Language as a Lineal Reading of the Reality
Authors: MAGNAVACCA Silvia
Published: May 2018

This brief work unfurls in three parts. In the first one, we shall ground the choice of an article in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae as an example of what we wish to point out. After a short review of the structure of the article, the second part focuses on an analysis of some of the oft repeated stereotypical linguistic expressions and formulae. The analysis taps not only on semantic aspects but also and mainly on morphologic and syntactic traits in order to underscore some of the hues that underlie those structures: the passive periphrasis in dicendum is a case in point. Lastly, we highlight some intellectual stances that seem to be already built into and sanctioned by the scholastic method. We will argue that such acceptance has played a significant role in turning that method into forma mentis.
Leo Strauss y el pensamiento de Tomás de Aquino / Leo Strauss' and Thomas Aquinas' Thought
Authors: VANNEY María A.
Published: May 2018

This article highlights some of the important reasons that explain the originally way Strauss interprets Thomas Aquinas’s thought. Although they both share some ideas, the radical separation that Strauss draws between philosophy and revelation does not allow him to draw any thomistic conclusion as philosophical, which is especially critical in his interpretation of Aristotle. These issues are brought into light especially in what has to do with the concept of natural law, synderesis, virtue and nature.
RESEÑAS
Authors: Contributors Various
Published: May 2018

Reviews of recently published books received by the editorial board of Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval. Reviews of recently published books received by the editorial board of Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval.
Ibn Tufayl y Spinoza. Sobre el conocimiento del Tercer Género / Ibn Tufayl and Spinoza: On the Third Kind of Knowledge
Authors: TORNERO Emilio
Published: May 2018

The nature of Spinoza’s third kind of knowledge still remains a matter of discussion as it has not been clarified yet. This paper offers a comparison between this knowledge in Spinoza and the superior knowledge to the rational discursive knowledge that Ibn Ṭufayl puts forward in his work translated in 1671 with the title Philosophus autodidactus, a work that Spinoza knew and recommended to his friends. Since this type of knowledge in Ibn Ṭufayl is a kind of rationalization of the mystic experience, and given that Spinoza highly esteemed this work by Ibn Ṭufayl, we could infer from these two hints how the nature of Spinoza’s third kind of knowledge should be understood.
Natural Liberty and Transference of Sovereignty in William of Ockham
Authors: MÉNDEZ ALONZO Manuel
Published: May 2018

The objective of this works in to analyze the conditions of transference of sovereignty and the concept of natural liberty in William of Ockham. Firstly, I briefly explain some antecedents of the conflict of ‘investidures’. Secondly, I will show that Ockham advanced the existence of a set of natural rights hold by the community. This permitted to argue against the Papal interference in the secular sphere, but also to set limits to the emperor himself and grant the individual with natural rights. Thirdly, I explain the differences between ius fori and ius poli and I suggest that Ockham did not provide point of contact between these laws, excepting in the case of liberty. Finally, I revise briefly Ockham’s term translation imperii.
La estructura intencional de la Ley natural, según Vázquez (s. xvi) / The Intentional Structure of the Natural Law According to Vázquez (16th century)
Authors: CRUZ CRUZ Juan
Published: May 2018

Gabriel Vázquez (1549-1604) explained that natural law is properly «the whole of radical or structural requirements of human nature as such, which is biological and rational at the same time». Natural law has also «self-consistency» by its own nature, and not by the consent or will of anyone, not even God. There is a double natural law: the primary one is the rational nature, and the secondary one is the judgment of our reason. This secondary natural law, based on the rational nature —which is our first moral rule—, gives a guideline, a practical judgment about the morality and immorality of human acts. The first is properly rule (mensura), the second is properly law (lex). The present study examines this dual intentional structure of natural law.
Tradiciones helenísticas y medievales sobre la causalidad del obrar humano. Cicerón y Tomás de Aquino ante el alcance de la voluntad / Hellenistic and Medieval Traditions on the Causality of Human Action. Cicero and Thomas Aquinas with Respect to the Object of the Will
Authors: CORSO DE ESTRADA Laura
Published: May 2018

This study considers the ranges of the power of self-determination in human action, attending to the « status quaestionis » of the matter as it is contained in statements of Cicero on the Stoic position, his own thoughts on this matter, and the reception and re-reading of the theme in Thomas Aquinas. We thus attend to the Ciceronian exposition in De natura deorum, De divinatione and De fato on the Stoic position regarding the need for causal connection. We also study the criticism added by Cicero to its transmission, and the projections of the problematic in Aquinas’s quaestio De fato, in the Summa Theologiae, and in other parallel passages.
La «causalidad del uno» en Dominicus Gundissalinus / The Causality of the One in Dominicus Gundissalinus
Authors: SOTO-BRUNA María J.
Published: May 2018

This article deals with the arguments which the metaphysical work of Dominicus Gundissalinus uses in order to explain the kind of unity found in the many, as well as the status of multiplicity, which proceeds from a being who is both one and unique. From the notion of a creating cause the article will show the possibility of the existence of the many, having as background the thesis which appears in the texts of Gundissalinus: omne creatum a creante esse diversum.
La investigación agustiniana sobre el tiempo en el De Musica / Augustinian Research on Time in De Musica
Authors: TRIVIÑO CUÉLLAR Jonathan
Published: May 2018

The issue of time within Augustine’s work requires a new look, as the problem has been seen in an almost generalized way from the perspective of Book XI of Confessions, and sufficient prominence has not been given to his reflection before this great work. The central text on time has received excessive interpretation, leaving in the background previous approaches, such as in De Musica, Book VI, where the saint addresses the issue of time in the middle of his analysis of temporal and eternal rhythms.
La Teología Mística de San Buenaventura (1217-1274) en el Itinerarium mentis in Deum / The Mystical Theology of St. Bonaventure (1217-1274) in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum
Authors: TAUSTE ALCOCER Francisco
Published: May 2018

In this article we show how all the thought of St. Bonaventure is directed to contemplation of the Supreme Good both theology and from philosophy, so that the mystical theology of his De triplici via (purgative, illuminative and unitive) directly influences the mystical doctrine of Itinerarium mentis in Deum, especially starting with Chapter VI. In short, contemplation of Crucified Christ constitutes the path of this mystical ascent.
La propiedad según Juan Quidort de París y Egidio Romano / Ownership According to John Quidort and Giles of Rome
Authors: GARCÍA Ricardo M.
Published: May 2018

John Quidort considers individual work, among other activities, the most suitable form of appropriation. Giles of Rome seems to share this view but, in contrast to John’s opinion, he claims that all possession is legitimate only when the owner is baptized, i.e., when he is part of the Church community. This view depends on Giles’s political thought, that the temporal order should be subordinated to the ecclesiastical order. John, on the other hand, when referring to the independence of the two powers, considers work and other activities independent from the Church, although linked to Christian ethics.
Interiority and Human Experience: Dominicus de Flandria on the Interior Senses
Authors: GARCÍA Brian
Published: May 2018

This paper takes up the topic of the interior senses and sensible cognition as elaborated by Dominic of Flanders, a fifteenth-century Dominican thinker, in his short commentary, Expositio super libros De anima. At a time when Averroistic Aristotelianism was flourishing, and as nominalism spread across the Continent, Dominic’s account of the soul and the interior senses demonstrates a commitment to Thomas Aquinas and, more broadly, scholastic realism. Dominic adopts the fourfold model of the internal senses advanced by Thomas. He carries forth Thomas’s insistence that the sensus communis is both the root (radix) and end (terminus) of sensitivity as such and the individual senses; he follows Thomas in privileging the cogitativa, and posits a more perfect form of memoria in man. Our study concludes by looking briefly at his Quaestiones in XII libros Metaphysica, where we find an innovative account of experimentum, which reveals the thought of a capable philosopher.
Acerca del pensamiento político de Ibn al-Khatīb / About the Political Thought of Ibn al-Khaṭīb
Authors: PUIG MONTADA Josep
Published: May 2018

Ibn al-Khatīb (1313-1375) is mainly known as a litterateur, but he was also an engaged politician who held the office of vizier in the Nasri kingdom of Grenada. His political ideas were related to his wish to justify his involvement in political affairs and, in particular, his position as a powerful vizier.
From Aquina's ciuitas perfecta to Quidort's perfecta multitudo. A 'Slight' Shift in Meaning
Authors: SILVA ROSA José Maria
Published: May 2018

According to Arendt and Habermas, the reinterpretation of Aristotle made by Thomas Aquinas, identifying politicus and socialis, has weakened the nature of classical Aristotelian politics by introducing in the polis (now regnum / monarchy) relations and private interests that the Greeks had reserved for domestic space (oikos). Moreover, being the concept of societas in this context naturally Christian, the purpose of society is no longer self-sufficiency and acquisition of natural virtue, which allow us to live together in order to the good life, but requires supernatural virtue given by God in order to achieve the true supreme good. Therefore, the possibility of happiness (eudaimonia) now refers to eschatology (communio sanctorum), reason because kings are to be subject to priests, especially the pope, Christ’s representative, whose role is to take care of the highest aim of our existence (visio et fruitio Dei). However, the application of a pyramidal and hierarchical scheme of spiritual power over the temporal realm is subverted by Juan Quidort of Paris, introducing a «small» shift: the kingdom understood as perfecta multitudo. In this perfect multitude an upward causality is the basis for distinction and non-subordination of the temporal power by the spiritual; at the same time freedom of individuals to choose their leaders is essential. This view undermines the dynastic transmission’s model of power in a kingdom (from father to son) as well as, at the ecclesial level, points to superiority of the General Council in relation to the pope.
Sobre la simplicidad divina y la predicación de múltiples atributos en Avicena y Tomás de Aquino / On Divine Simplicity and the Predication of Multiple Attributes in Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas
Authors: LÓPEZ-FARJEAT Luis Xavier
Published: May 2018

In In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, aa. 1-3 Thomas Aquinas deals with divine simplicity and the predication of the divine attributes. There, he seems to take some distance from Avicenna, specifically when Avicenna avers that God lacks a quiddity. However, in the Summa theologiae Aquinas assumes, as he previously does both in In I Sent., d. 8, q. 1, a. 1 and in De ente et essentia, that there is an identity between the essentia/quiddity and the esse in God, while this statement would also be held by Avicenna. I will show how back to the Commentary on the Sentences Aquinas has detected the existing tension between the two thesis held by Avicenna, and I will also analyze the way in which he addresses both these theses.
The Aquinas's Criticism of the Cosmological Models of the 13th Century: A Step in the Development of Scientific Skepticism
Authors: C. MINECAN Ana Maria
Published: May 2018

This article analyzes the treatment of natural philosophy in the work of Thomas Aquinas from the point of view of assimilation of the Aristotelian physical corpus. It focuses primarily on the Aquinas’s defense of the conception of the fallibility of the natural reason, the provisional and revisable character of all physical theories, the necessity of intercultural dialogue to discover the truths about nature, and Aquinas’s role in the development of the skeptical attitude in scientific research of the mobile’s world.
Dignitas et nobilitas metaphysicae: objeto y articulación de la metafísica en el prólogo del comentario de Duns Escoto a la metafísica de Aristóteles / Dignitas et nobilitas metaphysicae: Metaphysics’s Object and Articulation in Duns Scotus’s Prologue to His Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Authors: HERNANDO SALINAS Héctor
Published: May 2018

This paper studies two aspects of John Duns Scotus’s Prologue to his Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. The a priori argument to prove the nobility and dignity of metaphysics and the treatment of the question about the scientific object of metaphysics and its articulation with the other realities treated in this science. The paper also shows how Scotus’s prologue follows an interpretative tradition whose principal interlocutors are Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna
La división de la teología en el Tractatus de philosophica interpretatione sacrae Scripturae de Heymerico de Campo (1395-1460) / The Division of Theology According to the Tractatus de philosophica interpretatione sacrae Scripturae by Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460)
Authors: RUSCONI María Cecilia
Published: May 2018

The Tractatus de philosophica interpretatione sacrae Scripturae contains nine lectures taught at the University of Leuven in 1435. In the first lesson, Heymericus develops a threefold classification of mystical, symbolic and philosophical theology. This scheme is modified in the epilogue, where symbolical theology has the lowest level of the three categories. This paper provides a description of the doctrinal structure of the treatise in order to explain the epistemological inconsistency between the two passages
Miguel Asín Palacios y la Filosofía Musulmana
Authors: RAMÓN GUERRERO Rafael
Published: May 2018

On the ocasion if the fiftieth aniversary of the death of the distinguished aragonese arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, the~ autor reviews in this article the contribution of Asín to the history of Islamic philosophy, especially to the philosophy of Al-Andalus, through a brief analysis of his main writings.
Nominalismo e ideología en el siglo XIV
Authors: TALEGÓN HERRERO César
Published: May 2018

Medieval logic, science of the linguistic sign, gives more relevance to the interpretative over other signs. The author of this paper proposes to demonstrate how certain terminist hypotheses when applied to propositional study enable one to clarify the ideological character of ordinary discourse as a representation of the world.
El franciscanismo de Guillermo de Ockhlam: una aproximación biográfico-contextual a su filosofía
Authors: FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ Marcos
Published: May 2018

William of Ockham was a firm believer in Franciscan spirituality: humility, poverty and social harmony. At the same time, Ockham defended the idea that intellectual humility did not impede the construction of a rationality that would help in the religious transformation of society. The author of this paper defends the unity of Ockham' s philosophical thoughts, long after the events in Avignon.
La lógica en la España Medieval
Authors: BEUCHOT Mauricio
Published: May 2018

The Logic in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages. In this study we offer the main feature of the Logic as it was cultivated in Spain in the Middle Ages. It's divided in three religious groups: Christians, Jews and Mahometans. In every group there were very important writers, some of which provided a great contribution to the development of the medieval Logic.
Petrus hispanus portugalensis? Elementos para uma diferenciaçao de autores
Authors: MEIRINHOS José F.
Published: May 2018

The personality of Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis (13th century) is quite polifacetic: philosopher, physician, scientist, politician and pope. This gave reason for confounding Petrus Hispanus with other people. The author of this article studies some aspects related with the life, writings and personality of Petrus Hispanus in order to distinguish him from the people he has been confounded with. The author concludes that there are three differents persons: I) Petrus Hispanus, 0. P.; 2) Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis; 3) Petrus Hispanus, physician, whom some historians confounded with Petrus Julianus, who became a pope with the name of John' XXI.
Pensamiento escotista en la España medieval (Siglos XIV-XV)
Authors: MUÑIZ RODRÍGUEZ Vicente
Published: May 2018

Scot's thought in he Spanish Medieval Philosophy. Duns Scot's philosophical doctrine got a great development in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in the Kingdom og Aragon, during 14th-16th centuries. But not all the Spanish Scotists were faithfull interpreters of Scot's thought, as it happened to Antonio Andres, the most representative philosopher of the Spanish Scotism.
Antonio de Andrés (S.XIV). Estudio bibliográfico-crítico
Authors: GARCÍA NAVARRO Sebastián
Published: May 2018

Antonio Andres (l4th century). A bibliographical and critical study. Antonio Andres is a Spanish philosopher who lived in 14th century. He is well known because of his relation to Duns Scot. That's why some writings of Antonio Andres have been confounded with the writings of Duns Scot. Two problems are studied in this work: first, to appoint which writings belong to Antonio Andres; second, to prove if Antonio Andres was either an original philosopher or a mere commentator of Duns Scot's writings.
La crítica de Juan Luis Vives a los pseudo-dialécticos
Authors: AYALA Jorge M.
Published: May 2018

Juan Luis Vives: Humanistic Logic versus Nominalistc Logic. In this work we study an aspect of the Humanism of Juan Luis Vives: his critique to the Nominalistic Logic. According to the Spanish philosopher, Grammar and Rhetoric were not separable from Dialectic. Perhaps Juan Luis Vives did not understand very well the sense of the Nominalistic Logic. Nevertheles his contribution to the humanictic Logic was quite considerable.
Universidad medieval y enciclopedia del saber: implicaciones antropológicas
Authors: ANDONEGUI Xabier
Published: May 2018

Far of the topics about the so called medieval «obscurantism», the global sociocultural dynamic of the XI-XIII centuries is unequivocally humanist, although its main problems consists in conserving the inherited Christian tradition, rejuvenating as well as enriching it with the arabian science and the aristotelian thought, known in their splendour. The creation of the University, the reconstruction of the know ledges with the guide of the Theology in the education of medieval man, can be better understood, looking at them from tbe basic confrontation of two conceptions of the man as «image of God»: one of them, tending to the submission, and the other one, tending to the autonomy. Between both tendencies, the great figures as Anselmo, Thomas or Scot will mediate an agreement. They do it in different moments of the process and from different suppositions. But they all transmit to us a model based in the complementary hierarchization of bot perspectives.
Pecado y existencia. Notas sobre el pensamiento de Escoto Eriúgena
Authors: CANTÓN ALONSO José L.
Published: May 2018

This article propose some ret1ections about the existential significance of the eriugenian concept of original sin. This, together with the divine grace, permits John Scot to understand the historical and worldly configuration of the existence and the possibility of realization in it and from it of the natural human condition of imago Dei.
San Agustín: la finitud Bella
Authors: UÑA JUÁREZ Agustín
Published: May 2018

St. Augustine: the beautiful finiteness. Distension of the finiteness and beauty are parallel in St. Augustine, its deduction and its aesthetic qualification. Ontology of finiteness is therefore, at the same time, aesthetic thought in three dimensions: a) foundation and structure of the finetenesss; b) temporal succession (temporum pulchritudo); c) historic becoming (universi saeculi pulchritudo). Could we, with no deduction, interpret his aesthetic doctrine as «a system of the beautiful fineteness»?
Determinismo y libertad en el Mathematicus de Bernardo Silvestre
Authors: TAUSTE ALCOCER Francisco
Published: May 2018

Destiny and liberty in the Mathematicus of Bernard Silvestrus. This paper attemps to reveal a problem that worried a lot to people who dealed with astrological themes in antiquity. Can human being challenge a prediction by committing suicide? Patricida's story, which remembers Oedipus, tries to point out the complexity of reponse. But human being always has the last possibility to elude the rum of events by imposing his will on star's destiny: this is the Mathematicus's lesson in conformity with the chartrian humanism.
Métodos y cuestiones filosóficas en la escuela de traductores de Toledo
Authors: BRASA DÍEZ Mariano
Published: May 2018

Philosophical questions and method in Toledo Translaters School. In this paper, after a preliminary section on twelfth-century Spain, I will present Medieval Renaissance Toledo where -in the School of Translators- the great translators did their work, and out of which most of the philosophical works by Arab Authors, translated to latin, emerged. I will also talk about other roads, other regions, and other translators. Finally, I will the Alfonsian translations and I will conclude with two appendices showing the works translated by Ibn Daound-Gundisalvo and by Gerardo de Cremona.
Ciencia y docencia en Agustín y Tomás de Aquino (del maestro agustiniano al maestro tomista)
Authors: PÉREZ-ESTÉVEZ Antonio
Published: May 2018

Science and teaching in Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. The author tries to make a comparative analisis of the notions science, teacher and disciple such as they appear in St. Augustine's De Magistro and in question 11th, «De Magistro», of the Disputatio De Veritate of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Augustinian science of intelligible and eternal truths is adquired by a mental view of intellect and reason; it supposes the good will of knowing subject. Thomist science consists of a number of intelligent forms adquired from a deductive logic-necessary process that begins with the first obvious principles and axioms. For Augustin, there is only one teacher of intelligible truths that hides himself in the deepest of every rational soul and shows the Truth only to the interior man, that is, the one dominated by the good will. For Thomas Aquinas, there exist two different teachers: the main and interior one that is God, and another external and human, with perfect and actual knowledge, who helps the disciple to get the ability and the habit of deducing notions and truths from the first obvious principles and axioms. For Augustin, we all are disciples of the unique teacher of Truth, Christ, and we will be good or bad disciples according to our good or evil will. For Thomas Aquinas, every disciple has from the very beginning all the notions and truths that he is going to learn, but in potency or in their seminal reasons -the first obvious principles and axioms-; but he will. try, with the important help of the teacher, to get the ability and the habit of deducing and developing all notions and truths enclosed within the first evident principles and axioms.
El Llibre d'Amic i Amat de Ramón Llull: modesta contribución al estudio de sus fuentes
Authors: SERVERANT Vincent
Published: May 2018

Intertextual study of the Libre d' amici amat in the fields of spirituality, theology and literature, with special references to the latin patristic, the thought of the Cistercians and the Victorines, the legenda of Ami et Amile, etc. The method of filiations and sources is adopted, but with major corrections: the likeliness about themes and motifs has not only to be pointed; that first step must be prolonged by an interrogation about the sense and the function of these elements in the architecture, the systeme of a particular thought. The a. emphatises also how relevant to unify philosophy and poetics it is; in that way, he outlines the chief features of one possible tipology for the examplum in the Iullian opuscule.
Judíos y cristianos: la apologética de la tolerancia en el «Llibre del gentil»
Authors: TRÍAS MERCANT Sebastià
Published: May 2018

In order to understand Llullian apologetics of tolerance we must situate the Llibre del gentil (1274/76) within the context of the Mall orca of the three religions, that of the Judea-Christian disputes, of the JudeaMuslim sectarisms, of the schism and of the Christian heterodoxies. Only by taking all this into account, can we study in Llullian apologetics concepts such as "tolerance of benevolence" or "rational tolerance". Llullian apologetics doesn't try to change a belief by another but to lay the bridge of rational tolerance to understand the truth of faith in the search of the utopia of religious unity. The aim would be therefore, to look for a solution to the Judeo Christian conflict of messianism, by means, for example, of a rapprochement through the common concept of hope, even though respecting the semantic differences of both systems of thought.
La crísis del paradigma político medieval. Una reflexión sobre el debate de la teología política
Authors: ROSALES José M.
Published: May 2018

The paper deals with the crisis of the medieval political paradigm as broken up in two different moments. The first, exemplified by the inner critique of William of Ockham, namely a theological revision of the Christian political theology in the fourteenth century, attempting to recover a secular basis for the theological doctrine. The second, advanced by Martin Luther and the Reformation movement two centuries later, that opposed the very legitimacy of a Christian politics and justified no conciliation at all between the canonical theology and secular politics.
Prudencio Galindo y el problema de la predestinación
Authors: OCAÑA GARCÍA Marcelino
Published: May 2018

I want to bring to the attention of the reader in this essay. A proper Name and a certain topic. The Name, Prudencio Galindo, Spanish -and therefore Almost forgotten- who dared to defend a little appreciated friar, Gotescalco, so much so that he did not avoid opposing not only eclessiastical power -Hincmaro and Rabano Mauro- but also the prestigious scholar Scotus Eringenus. The opportunity, a topic of all times, from the beginning of Christianity, already discussed by St. Augustine: the intention of harmonizing free will with predestination and grace.
Sobre el concepto eriugeniano de filosofía
Authors: CATÓN ALONSO José L.
Published: May 2018

In this paper we try to study some aspects in the evolution of the concept of philosophy in Eriugena's thought. Two moments that have been differentiated, are mainly defined by the concepts of reason and unity, and by those of intellect and infinity respectively,
«Aspectus animae ratio est» Apuntes sobre la razón en los Soliloquios de san Agustín
Authors: JIMÉNEZ MANZANAS Almudena
Published: May 2018

To define the concept of reason, to determine its modus operandi and its scope has constituted the philosopher's task from its origins till today. What follows does not intend to exhaust the meaning of reason, not even within the frame of Agustinian philosophy, since the term itself is not univocal in Agustinian philosophy, but rather to offer an analysis of rationality, in its cognitive function, and point out its relationship whit the soul, and its possible objects of knowledge -God among 9thers- and in doing so, to offer a perspective which reconciles points of view somewhat reductionist.
Jugando con fuego. El fuego como realidad metafísica
Authors: BRASA DÍEZ Mariano
Published: May 2018

The Walter Burley's physics: his theory about the number of principles of generation. In terms of originality and influence, the Doctor Planus et Perspicuus was one of the most significant thinkers of the fourteenth century. In this article, I offer an introduction to the Burley's physical thinking restricted to his theory of matter and privation. Burley replaces a nominal interpretation for a real one of privation. In fact, the Burley's theory is a direct attack on Ockham's views expressed in this Expositio librorwn Physico rum. Burley answer each argument proposed by Ockham, concerning the identification of matter and privation; and he defends the view of an exaggerated realism.
Estructura aristotélica del sistema conceptual de la estética medieval
Authors: JAQUES PI Jèssica
Published: May 2018

This article furnishes a systematisation of the Mediaval aesthetic vocabulary. This task is developed by means of the adoption of a dynamic of intersection among the various Aristotelic species qualitatis, which are taken as the basic structural elements of the requested system. Two versions of beauty are established, which will expand into two kinds of aesthetics, one leaded by pulchritudo, with intellectualistic implications and the other leaded by formositas, which will turn into an autonomus aesthetics; both of them have let a strong legacy to contemporaneus aesthetics.
La filosofía de la coacción en el medievo
Authors: MONCHO PASCUAL Josep
Published: May 2018

Christian philosophical tradition, medieval in a large sense, recieves from greek philosophy a positive valuation of coaction as auxiliary instrument of morality. Saint Augustine reinforces it by his reference to "libido" and to original sin. Saint Thomas consideres "providential" the whole punitive dimension of state. Marsilius of Padova converts coaction into the essence of law. Suarez concieves law as (non democratical) "imposition" of superior's will. The two authors seem defenseless against the modern phenomenon of "power centralization".
La transmisión de la filosofía en el Medioevo cristiano: el prólogo de Avendeuth
Authors: VEGAS GONZALEZ Serafín
Published: May 2018

The design of translating into Latin the Avicenna's Shifa' is the immediate consequence of the mediaeval Christian culture concern to include the most advanced islamic inheritance of the age. This is stated in the preface in which Avendeuth dedicates the De anima translation to the Arschbishop of Toledo. Mediaeval transmission of philosophy specifies the significance that the transmission of the knowledge in general has for the history of the mediaeval West philosophy as a search for a Christian culture in accordance with the development of human reason.
Nota sobre a questâo dos universais em Tomás de Aquino
Authors: DO NASCIMENTO Carlos A. R.
Published: May 2018

In this note, the author remembers how Saint Thomas of Aquino has dealt with the problem of universals, he points out the most important texts in that Aquinas approaches such a question and he formulates some observations with regard to them. Finally, he translates one of these texts.
Hugo de san Víctor: interioridad, amor y conocimiento
Authors: GAMARRA Daniel O.
Published: May 2018

According to Hugo de San Victor, love is the sourle and the main reason of the self acquaintance. This self acquaintance does not only enable the soul to know what it is, but also and mainly to love more. The confluencia of the acquaintance and love expresses the inwardness structure. This interior warping enables the mysticism. Without the self acquaintance it would not be possible to receive neither the Holy Ghost's gifts nor mystic contemplation.
Memoria de sí y educación del otro. El autoconocimiento como fuente de la actividad educativa en el pensamiento de santo Tomás de Aquino
Authors: MARTÍNEZ Enrique
Published: May 2018

Knowledge and teaching of truth are deep-seated in self-conscience, and thus has been recognised in several moments in history of Philosophy and Theology, since exhortation Know yourself was engraved in Apollo's temple in Delph. Tins study tries to show the narrow linking between self-conscience and teaching order in Saint Thomas Aquinas' thought, who stands out no only because of his doctrine, but also because of his deep pedagogy.
La función del entendimiento agente en la epistemología de Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
Authors: GRAU I ARAU Andrés
Published: May 2018

Suarez's psychology starts from the triple Aristotelian distinction of the soul: vegetative, sensitive and rational. Having appreciated the need and function of the agent and possible intellects in the human knowledge, especially in the universal ones, we have proceeded to analyse its essential characteristics. The agent intellect is presented as a noncognizant faculty limited to the lighting of images and the production of species.