Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... century; they found in the system of human knowl. edge, as it had been conceived and developed by Aristotle, a new aliment. Alexander of Hales, who distinguished himself by his rigorous logic, and Albert the Great, born in 1205, who possessed extensive learning, founded, properly speaking, the peripateticism of the Middle Ages. Around them are grouped the names of Alain de Lille, Hugo Eterianus, Raymond, Pennafort, Vincent de Beauvais, William of Auvergne, Alfred the Philosopher, and Robert Capito. Then soon all anterior conceptions were summed up, co-ordinated, and enlarged by the labours of the two most celebrated doctors of the Middle Ages, Bonaventura and Thomas Aquinas. The first sought to establish the union of the Peripatetic philosophy with the doctrines of the contemplative school, the union of logic and intuition; the other reared upon the basis of logic a vast edifice, of which the different stories corresponded to all orders of hu man knowledge. BONAVENTURA. Historical Notices. Bonaventura was born in Tuscany in 1221. Entering the order of minor friars, he studied at Paris under Alexander of Hales. He was made cardinal by Gregory X. When the hat was brought him he was engaged in washing dishes. He sat in the second council of Lyons, where he died in 1274. Exposition. Brucker has given a clear and precise expositioa of the philosophy of St. Bonaventura, which we hero extract: "Every good and perfect gift descends from th& Father of Light, but the light which emanates from this source is manifold. Although all illumination be internal, we may nevertheless distinguish four modes of the communication of the light: the external light, which explains the mechanical arts; the inferior light, which produces sensitive knowledge; the...
