Valor y sentido del conocimiento en las Ordenes Mendicantes del Siglo XIII

GERALD CRESTA; SÉRGIO RICARDO STREFLING; ANA PAULA TAVARES MAGALHÃES; SERGIO ALBERTO FELDMAN; MARCIA MARÍA MADEIROS; ELADIO SEBASTIAN HEREDERO; ROBERTO ANTONIO DEITOS; OCTAVIO ANTUNES SANTANA/ LUCIANA ROBERTA TENORIO PEIXOTO; JONATHAS DE PAULA CHAGURI; SIDNEI DE OLIVEIRA SOUSA; ROGÉRIO SOARES CORDEIRO/MOACIR WUO/MARIA SANTINA DE CASTRO MORINI; ANTONIO CARLOS FERNANDEZ/RAIMUNDA ABOU GEBRAU; ARTUR SIMÕES ROZESTRATEN; DULCE REGINA BAGGIO OSINSKI/RICARDO CARNEIRO ANTONIO; ROSEMEIRE DE LOURDES MONTEIRO ZILIANI/ANTÔNIO CARLOS DO NASCIMENTO OSÓRIO

Acta Scientiarum. Education

Universidade Estadual de Maringá

Lugar: Maringá; Año: 2010 vol. 32 p. 141 - 151

2178-5198

The article deals with the idea of scientia christiana as it was understood in XIIItn. Century, and how it was possible for the thinkers members of mendicants Orders the relationship between common philosophical knowledge and individual religious aspirations. The XIII century gives us a thought of the Universtiy, in which all knowledge had to be forwarded to the sapientia sacrae paginae, as theology was named in those years. Undoubtedly, this represented a church ideal but at the same time it was a challenge for the century thinkers. Due to the epistemology complexity inherited from the XII century and the insertion of members of mendicant orders -mainly Dominics and Franciscans- in the academic tasks, this aspect of the history of ideas had a controversy: naturalism of classic inheritance -added to Arabian thoughts- from one side and Christian humanism from the other contended to define the ultimate destiny of mankind. The value and the sense of knowledge depended on the anwer men gave to these many thoughts. The teachings of great antique authors, Aristoteles and Neo Platonism, influenced both of the mendicant orders already mentioned, not belonging particularly to any of them. In Dominic St. Thomas Aquinas’s papers the Neo Platonism ideas can be detected; he also incorporated the Aristotelian doctrine to his own theology. St. Buenaventure -considered the greatest representative of the Franciscans- developed a valuable theory of trascendental Good and we consider that the empiric approach of the Franciscan school of England is important. Nevertheless, both currents would coincide in a unity of knowledge, that could be thought of as the trascendentals of being.