Capitolo 5
theory and the second (the cf. Pietro Damien and dun Scotus Eriugena)
you/he/she was also reduced to a position that nobody has done him more than the
obedient maid of the theology. In the eleventh century however, Street
Anselm had drawn a clear distinction among the faith and you/he/she had reasoned, and
since then in then the theology and the philosophy they were generally approved as
individual but allied sciences, both the service as lines of approach
to the truth but differing in their method. Truth was an and therefore
there could be no conflict among the conclusions arrived later
different ways. In him the Pietro of twelfth century of Blois conducted a
the certain called group "rigourists" to that it sideways looked still
philosophy, or rather to the intellectual methods from that it
proceeded, and they was tilted for condemning him/it as "the devil
art", but they was on the in general loser and John of Salisbury Alan,
of Lille, her of de of Gilbert in which Porree and Hugh of St. Victor have prevailed
their argument that philosophers were the videlicet of "_humanae
sapientiae amatores_", while theologians were the scripturae of "_divinae
doctores."
Cardinal Mercier, him the greatest contemporary exponent of
Scholastic philosophy, defines the philosophy as "the science of the
the totality of things." The twelfth century was once when men were
striving himself/herself/itself to see phenomenons in this sense and established a great
rational synthesis with which you/he/she should be still in full conformism the
the dogmatic theology of revealed religion. Abelard was more anymore one of the
enthusiastic and audacious of these thinkers of Mediaeval, and it is not
surprising that he would not only be had to find in matter with
the dullest type of theologians but with his/her philosophical peers
them. He was an intellectual strength of the first magnitude and
a master of dialectics; he was also an egotist through and through,
and a man of strong passions. He is able and it used his logical
faculty and his/her dominion of dialectics to justify his/her his/her own desires,