Ricerc@Sapienza

Considerazioni circa la vita filosofica quale più perfetta attuazione della natura umana e, corrispondentemente, la vita non filosofica come ferina e sub-umana sono presenti negli scritti di molti maestri latini attivi nel XIII secolo, e in particolare presso maestri della Facoltà delle arti di Parigi quali Boezio di Dacia e Alberico di Reims.

Four Conferences about Gilbert of Poitiers and his school, presented in Paris at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 5th Section, in January 2016:
- 1. Introduction : Gilbert of Poitiers and the Porretan autors
- 2. Theology
- 3. Ontology (a. « Subsistants » and forms; b. Singularity, individuality, universals)
- 4. Semantics and languages (a. Hermeneutics; b. Signification of the nouns and theory of the predication in natural philosophy)

The article analyses 12th century discussions about how God’s being everywhere should be understood. According to Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers, and Alain of Lille, since God cannot be in any place, « God is everywhere » must be interpreted figuratively and means e.g. that we can perceive God’s power everywhere. Hugues of St. Victor, Peter Lombard, and Praepositinus from Cremona on the contrary assert that « God is everywhere » is literally true and that God is really present everywhere in the world, though in a mysterious way.