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Hugh of St Victor

Hugh of St Victor (c. 1078 – February 11, 1141), mystic philosopher, was probably born at Hartingam, in Saxony. Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany.

After spending some time in a house of canons regular at Hamersleben, in Saxony, where he completed his studies, he removed to the abbey of St Victor at Marseille, and thence to the abbey of St Victor in Paris. Canons regular are members of certain bodies of Canons (priests living in community under the Augustinian Rule ("regula" in Latin and sharing their property Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Of this last house he rose to be canon, in 1125, scholasticus, and perhaps even prior, and it was there that he died.

His eloquence and his writings earned him fame and influence that far exceeded St Bernard's, and which held its ground until the advent of the Thomist philosophy. Bernard of Clairvaux, OCist ( 1090 - August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order Thomism is the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas. Hugh was more especially the initiator of the mysticism of the school of St Victor, which dominated the whole of the second part of the 12th century. The mysticism which he inaugurated, says Charles-Victor Langlois, is learned, unctuous, ornate, florid, a mysticism which never indulges in dangerous temerities; it is the orthodox mysticism of a subtle and prudent rhetorician. Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity Charles-Victor Langlois ( May 26, 1863, in Rouen - June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian and paleographer This tendency undoubtedly shows a marked reaction from the contentious theology of Roscellinus and Abélard. Roscellinus, also called Roscelin of Compiègne or in Latin Roscellinus Compendiensis and Rucelinus (c

For Hugh of St Victor dialectic was both insufficient and perilous. In classical Philosophy, dialectic (διαλεκτική is controversy the exchange of arguments and counter-arguments respectively advocating Propositions Yet he did not profess the haughty contempt for science and philosophy which his followers the Victorines expressed; he regarded knowledge, not as an end in itself, but as the vestibule of the mystic life. Reason was but an aid to the understanding of the truths which faith reveals. The ascent towards God and the functions of the three-fold eye of the soul cogitatio, meditatio and contemplatio were minutely taught by him in language which is at once precise and symbolical.

Manuscript copies of his works abound, and are to be found in almost every library which possesses a collection of ancient writings. The works themselves are very numerous and very diverse. The middle ages attributed to him sixty works, and the edition in Migne's Patr. Lat. vols. Jacques Paul Migne (25 October 1800 - 24 October 1875 was a French Priest who published inexpensive and widely-distributed editions of theological works encyclopedias The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between clxxv. -clxxvii. (Paris, 1854) contains no fewer than forty-seven treatises, commentaries and collections of sermons. Of that number, however, Barthélemy Hauréau (Hugues de Saint-Victor (1st ed. Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau ( November 9 1812 &ndash April 29, 1896) was a French Historian and writer , Paris, 1859; 2nd ed. , Paris, 1886) contests the authenticity of several, which he ascribes with some show of probability to Hugh of Fouilloy, Robert Paululus or others. Hugh of Fouilloy (born between 1096 and 1111 in Fouilloy (near Amiens) died ca )

Among those works with which Hugh of St Victor may almost certainly be credited may be mentioned:

the celebrated De sacramentis christianae fidei (On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith)
the Didascalicon de studio legendi (Treatise on the Arts)
the treatises on mysticism entitled De contemplatio et ejus operibus (On Contempoation and its Operations), Aareum de meditando opusculum, De arca Noe morali (On the Moral Interpretation of the Ark of Noah), De arca Noe mystica (On the Mystic Interpretation of the Ark of Noah), De vanitate mundi (On the Vanity of the World), De arrha animae (On the Betrothal Gift of the Soul), De amore sponsi ad sponsam (On the Love of the Husband for his Wife), etc.
the introduction (Praenotatiunculae) to the study of the Scriptures
homilies on the book of Ecclesiastes
commentaries on other books of the Bible, e. Ecclesiastes (often abbreviated Ecc) (קֹהֶלֶת Kohelet, variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Göhalath, Koheles, Koheleth g. the Pentateuch, Judges, Kings, Jeremiah, etc. term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. The Books of Kings ( Sefer Melachim, ספר מלכים are a part of Judaism 's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah ( יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirməyāhū in Hebrew) is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaism

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