Godfrey of St Victor
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Godfrey of St. Victor (c.1130-1194) was a French monk and theologian, and one of the last major figures of the Victorines. He was a supporter of the study of ancient philosophy.[1]
[edit] Life
He had initially taught at the University of Paris, before coming to the St. Victor's Abbey, Paris, an Augustinian establishment of canons regular. The cultural differences between the university teachers and the Victorines were widening, and Godfrey felt compelled to leave, shortly after 1173.[2]
[edit] Works
- Fons Philosophiae
- Microcosmus
- Preconium Augustini
In his Microcosmus he compare sensuality, imagination, reason and intelligence to the respective four classical elements, earth, water, air and fire[3]. His Fons Philosophiae gives a high status to Seneca the Elder as moral philosopher[4].
The Preconium Augustini is a poem on Augustine of Hippo of about 500 lines.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ A History of Western Philosophy 2.13
- ^ Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins of the University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215 (1985), p. 43; R. N. Swanson, The Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1999), p. 19.
- ^ Gillian Rosemary Evans, Getting It Wrong: The Medieval Epistemology of Error (1998), p. 39.
- ^ Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition (2000), p.19 note.
- ^ Allan Fitzgerald, John C. Cavadini, Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (1999), p. 868.
