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Problem prawdy u Wilhelma z Owernii

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Pawlikowski T.

Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe

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2012

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vol. 31

87-102

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William of Auvergne (1180–1249) was one of the first wave professors of University in Paris to engage with Greek, Islamic and Jewish philosophical writings that had become available in Latin translation. He was the author of a vast work that he calls the Magisterium divinale (Teaching on God). De universo (On the Universe), written in the 1230s, is the most philosophical treatise of the Magisterium. One short part (I, 3, 25-26) of this treatise includes a very important philosophical topic – the problem of truth. Based on a doctrine of Avicenna, William formulated one of the forms of truth's classical definition. In his view, this definition express the essence of logical truth, which is constituted in any relation between human intellect and things, if intellect is adequate to his object. So the logical truth is a basis and property of true judgments and statements about all real things, and even about what really does not exist (things in the future, in the past, non-beings, negations), and – generally – about all the man can think or about everything possible to thinking. William rejects the doctrine of St. Augustine, who taught that every truth has its source in the First Truth identified with God the Creator of all things and intellects contingent. William argues that only actually existing things are real existing as caused by God. So only actually existing things can be substrates of truth and so subjects of true judgments and statements. The Creator doesn't cause things as existing in the past, in the future, but as existing in the present. What is more, He doesn't cause non-beings and negations. In consequence, William recognizes logical truth as the only justification for true adjudication of all what exists and doesn't exist. In Steven P. Marrone's opinion William's theory of truth is a new idea in the early thirteenth century. He believes that William's theory, however incomplete, explains how much the problem of truth is depended on logic rather than metaphysics, so that it could be separated radically from questions of being and viewed independently of the issue concerning the relation of the mind and creatures to God. In fact, although William continued to speak in traditional terms, he divorced with the point of view of ontology and natural theology, finding solutions in theories of logic and language. However, taken in this article studies seem to show that William's theory of truth is embedded in a metaphysical context. Furthermore, medieval logic is the science of the action of the intellect, which is a faculty of human being. This is not logic in twentieth-century's sense. Thus, it does not seem to William resigned from metaphysics to logic. His theory of logical truth is imperfect because of metaphysical errors. The main error is that the logical truth, which realizes in the relation of intellect to things and so is one of truths that exist in contingent beings, William considered as final and the sole basis of every true judgments and statements, without regard to its dependence on the First Truth. Indeed, logical truth is not able to truly independent existence.

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Teorie pravdy v tzv. středním komentáři Waltera Burleyho k Aristotelovu Perihermeneias

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Varga J.

Studia theologica

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2017

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vol. 2

105-123

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This study deals with the early theory of truth presented by Walter Burley (ca. 1275–1344) in his socalled middle commentary on Aristotle’s Perihermeneias. The issue of truth is raised in the context of Aristotle’s claim that truth and falsity imply combination and separation. Burley’s dissatisfaction with this purely logical concept of truth leads him to the introduction of a structured definition of truth which allows him to clearly distinguish between truth taken as theological, ontological, epistemological or logical. The first part of this study will present Burley’s understanding of truth in the first three of these meanings of truth. The second part will then focus on truth in the logical sense which is also in the center of Burley’s own focus of interest. There will also be a discussion of what function his propositional semantics and his theory of so‑called real propositions (propositiones in re) have in this theory of truth.

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Gli aspetti teologici della poesia di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena

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Colnago F.

Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne

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2016

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vol. 25

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issue 1

143-170

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The poetic works of John Scotus Eriugena, dating about from 855 to 877, is one of the lesser known works of the Irish philosopher and theologian, renowned for his treatises De divina praedestinatione and Periphyseon or De divisione naturae and for his Latin translations of Greek patristic works (Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory of Nyssa). In this article, after the presentation of some synthetic elements on the figure of John Scotus and his poetic corpus, the major theological aspects of Eriugena’s poems are analysed. From the poetry, often not easy to interpret, the theological depth of John Scotus comes to light. In fact, beyond a concrete occasion, usually liturgical, which originates them, the carmina develop an articulated meditation on themes such as the relationship between the divine Persons in the Trinity, the creation of the world and of man, the incarnation, death on the cross, descent into hell and resurrection of Christ as the fulfillment of the Son’s inhumanatio for the resulting human théosis, the ascensus of the soul toward God and eschatology. The poetry is thus for John Scotus a special way of doing theology, versifying his rich and complex view about God and man.

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La produzione poetica di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena, databile tra l’855 e l’877 circa, è uno dei lavori meno conosciuti del filosofo e teologo irlandese, noto soprattutto per i trattati De divina praedestinatione e Periphyseon o De divisione naturae e per le traduzioni in latino di opere della patristica greca (Pseudo-Dionigi, Massimo il Confessore e Gregorio di Nissa). Nel presente articolo, dopo la presentazione di alcuni elementi sintetici sulla figura di Giovanni Scoto e sul suo corpus poetico, si analizzano i principali aspetti teologici dei carmi eriugeniani. Dai componimenti, spesso di non facile interpretazione, emerge la profondità teologica di Giovanni Scoto. In effetti, al di là dell’occasione concreta, normalmente liturgica, che li origina, essi sviluppano un’articolata meditazione su tematiche quali la relazione intratrinitaria tra le Persone divine, la creazione del mondo e dell’uomo, l’incarnazione, morte in croce, discesa agli inferi e resurrezione di Cristo lette quali compimento dell’inhumanatio del Figlio per la conseguente théosis dell’uomo, l’ascensus dell’anima verso Dio e l’escatologia. La composizione poetica si rivela dunque per Giovanni Scoto un modo speciale di fare teologia, mettendo in versi la sua ricca e complessa visione su Dio e sull’uomo.

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Poezja Jana Skota Eriugeny, pochodząca z lat około 855–877, jest najmniej znaną częścią twórczości irlandzkiego filozofa i teologa, który zasłynął głównie traktatami De divina praedestinatione i Periphyseon, czyli De divisione naturae, oraz tłumaczeniami na łacinę dzieł greckich Ojców Kościoła (Pseudo-Dionizego, Maksyma Wyznawcy i Grzegorza z Nyssy). W niniejszym artykule, po przedstawieniu niektórych syntetycznych informacji na temat osoby Jana Skota i jego poetyckiej twórczości, poddano analizie najważniejsze aspekty teologiczne jego pieśni. Z tychże utworów, nie zawsze łatwych do zinterpretowania, wyłania się głębia teologiczna Jana Skota. I rzeczywiście, pomijając konkretny kontekst, z reguły liturgiczny, który był inspiracją do ich napisania, poezje Eriugeny stanowią rozbudowaną medytację nad rozmaitymi tematami, jakimi były np.: związek międzytrynitarny między Boskimi Osobami, problem stworzenia świata i człowieka, Wcielenie Syna Bożego, Jego śmierć na krzyżu, wstąpienie do piekieł, Zmartwychwstanie, czyli te wszystkie wydarzenia, w których wypełniała się inhumanatio Syna Bożego i w konsekwencji théosis człowieka, ascenus duszy do Boga i eschatologia. Twórczość poetycka Jana Skota jawi się więc jako szczególny sposób uprawiania teologii, potrafił bowiem wpleść w poetyckie wersy swoją bogatą i złożoną wizję Boga i człowieka.

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Problem prawdy u Wilhelma z Owernii

Teorie pravdy v tzv. středním komentáři Waltera Burleyho k Aristotelovu Perihermeneias

Gli aspetti teologici della poesia di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena