Siger of the Brabant , medieval philosopher (born in the the Brabant towards 1240 - died with Orvieto before 1284).

Biography

Born in an unknown place from the Brabant, Siger studies with the Faculté of arts of Paris between 1255 and 1257. It belongs to the Nation of Picardy, from which it was perhaps one of the leaders. Subversive spirit, professor with the University of Paris, holding of the averroïsme, it was one of the principal intellectuals aimed by the bishop Etienne Tempier in 1277 when 219 subversive theses professed with the Sorbonne were condemned by the religious hierarchy.

Irony of the history, it seems that Siger has escaped with the lightnings of the Enquiry while taking refuge near the pope with Orvieto. It there died a few years later (it is given for died in a letter of Jean Peckham of November 10th, 1284), stabbed, says one, by his secretary become insane.

Its philosophical reflection falls under the context of the integration of the texts of Aristote within the frameworks of the theological thought of the medieval Occident. For better appreciating the audacity of the thinkers of the time, it should be recalled that, for example, in a decision of 1210, renewed in 1215 and in force until after 1230, the provincial synod of Paris had prohibited to comment on the books of natural philosophy of Aristote, including the Of Animated …

Its work

Siger, in its comments of Aristote, develops the consequences of the thought of this philosopher, and takes the party to stick only to the philosophical plan:

“Our intention principal is not to seek what is the truth, but which was the opinion of the Philosopher. ”

The Vérité is thus reserved for the catholic Foi. The Reason and the faith are thus two different orders, one being natural, other supernatural and true one. By the reasoning, we know the natural order (which are also the order of the consequences Logique S), and it is by the Révélation that the second is known for us.

Works

• 1270 : Quaestionnes in Physicam

• 1272: Tractatus of aeternitare mundi
• 1273: Quaestionnes in tertium of animated
• 1273: Quaestiones super Metaphysicam
• Of animated intellectiva
• Impossibilia
• Quaestiones super librum of causis

Sources

• Alain of Released, Penser of the Middle Ages , the Threshold, collection Points Tests, 1996.
• François-Xavier Putallaz and Ruedi Imbach, Profession: Philosopher. Siger of the Brabant , edition of the Stag, 1997.

Quotations

• “Day before, studies, lily, so that this doubt which remains to you excites you to study and with reading, since to live far away from the letters is, for the man, dead and cheap burial. ”

See too

• Thomas d' Aquin
• medieval Philosophy
• Scholastic
• History of sciences in Wallonia (900-1800)

External bonds

• Of aeternitate mundi

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