Concept
Bonaventure
Overview
Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza; 1221 – 15 July 1274) was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.
The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV. In 1588 Pope Sixtus V declared him a Doctor of the Church named as the "Seraphic Doctor" (Latin: Doctor Seraphicus). His feast day is 15 July.
Many writings from the Middle Ages once attributed to him have been subsequently re-classified under the name "Pseudo-Bonaventure".
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And since Aristotle began to reason while walking hither and thither, they were called, he, I say, and his companions, Peripatetics, which means the same as walkers about. And since the perfection of this Morality by Aristotle was attained, the name of Academician became extinct, and all those who attached themselves to this sect are called Peripatetics, and these people hold the doctrine of the government of the…
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
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If chivalry represented in some degree a moralizing of the warrior class, the mendicant orders represented an effort to bring religion into secular life. The followers of St. Dominic and St. Francis were indeed ascetic, but instead of maintaining the separate life of the cloister they aimed to awaken a personal experience among the whole people. Further, the Dominicans adopted the methods and conceptions of Greek…
John Dewey, Ethics
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Obj. 2: Further, the Latin "benedictio" [blessing] is derived from "bonitas" [goodness]. But it is the nature of good to spread and communicate itself, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv). The days, therefore, in which God produced creatures deserved a blessing rather than the day on which He ceased producing them. Obj.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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Philosophers who discussed Bonaventure
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Roger Bacon
- John Philoponus
- Alexander of Hales
- Duns Scotus
- Dante Alighieri
- Solomon ibn Gabirol
- Robert Grosseteste
- Richard Rufus of Cornwall
Related ideas
- Francis of Assisi
- Germany
- Philosophy
- Contemplation
- Italy
- Albertus Magnus
- Love
- London
- Middle Ages
- Metaphysics
- Augustine of Hippo
- Netherlands
- Thomas Aquinas
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Plato
- Neoplatonism
- Rome
- Roger Bacon
- Ontological argument
- Scotland
- Alexander of Hales
- Theology
- Trinity
- Aristotle
Place in the tradition
Part of Empiricism.