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45
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1977
Description
Robert Grosseteste († 1253) produced two works on epistemology, the De Veritate and the Commentarius in Libros Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis. They differ in problematic and accent, but are not in doctrinal opposition. The first explains the relationship between particular truths and the supreme Truth in terms of subjective and objective illumination by the First Light. The second acknowledges the validity of scientific knowledge derived by abstraction of universals from sensation. But if Grosseteste had no doubt about the value of Aristotelean methodology, neither had he any illusions concerning its lack of comprehensiveness as a guide to truth. And when he passes in review all the sources of human knowledge, scientific method is slotted in modestly between commonsense and divine revelation, in a hierarchy of truth which aims at the vision of God as its summit and consummation.
44 pages
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01 janvier 1977
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Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
3 Mo