Philosophy, ca. 950–ca. 1050
C. Stephen Jaeger
The leading conception of “Philosophy” in the period 950–1050 distinguishes it from discipline as understood either Carolingian or later eleventh and twelfth centuries. This essay takes issue with current opinion on subject, which tends to give particular stress cultivation Aristotelian logic, mediated above all by Boethius. focus consensus view is fixed Benedictine monasteries. However, imperial court cathedral schools arose second half tenth century received developed a philosophy based Cicero’s ethical that Roman reduction ancient Stoicism an ethic state service. was not speculative. Dialectic played part, but handmaiden language arts public oratory. Witnesses this development include Ruotger, biographer Bruno Cologne; Gerbert Aurillac; host clerical writers letters, poems biographies period. advent speculative Berengar Tours represents sharp break brief hundred-year renewal philosophy.
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