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Hugh of Saint Victor
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Hugh of Saint Victor
Ryan Mann
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
PH 354 History of Medieval Philosophy
Spring 2018
Hugh's Hagiography
- Born c. AD 1096 in Saxony
- Likely of noble birth; uncle was bishop
- entered St. Victor c. 1120, became head of school
- Died 1141
- Bonaventure: “but Hugh had all of these”
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Michael Gorman, "Hugh of St. Victor," in A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002)
The Didascalicon
The Didascalicon
"Of all things to be sought, the first is that Wisdom in which the Form of the Perfect Good stands fixed"
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Jerome Taylor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts, 46
The Problem
The Post-Lapsarian Problem
"the mind...has forgotten what it was, and, because it does not remember that it was anything different, believes that it is nothing except what is seen"
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Jerome Taylor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts, 47
Hugh's Inheritance
The Pre-Victorine View of the Liberal Arts
Hugh's Inheritance
"secular wisdom shoud be...purified and made to beget servants of the Lord"
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"When the Christian seperates himself in spirit from their miserable society, he should take these disciplines from them for the just use of proclaiming the gospel"
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Franklin T. Harkins, "Secundus Augustinus: Hugh of St. Victor on Liberal Arts Study and Salvation", 226
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Ibid., 227
Pagan Perspective
"While many may be called 'homines,' only those who have been perfected in the arts appropriate to humanity truly are 'homines.'"
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Franklin T. Harkins, "Secundus Augustinus: Hugh of St. Victor on Liberal Arts Study and Salvation", 230
The Steps to Perfection
1. Study: gives understanding
2. Meditation: provides counsel
3. Prayer: Makes Petition
4. Performance: goes seeking
The Steps to Perfection
"Then follows a fifth, contemplation, in which as by a sort of fruit of the preceding steps, one has a foretaste, even in this life, of what the future reward of good work is"
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Jerome Taylor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts, 132
The Liberal Arts
The Liberal Arts
Trivium
Grammar
Logic
Rhetoric
Quadrivium
Arithmetic
Geometry
Music
Astronomy
Hugh's Impact
"In Hugh's generation, the book is like a corridor with the incipit as its main entrance...But after Hugh the book can be entered randomly, with a good chance of finding what one looks for"
Hugh's Impact
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Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text, [Chicago; University of Chicago Press; 1993] 95
“from the recording of speech to the recording of thought, from the record of wisdom to the record of knowledge, from the transmission of authorities inherited out of the past to the storage of promptly usable, well coined ‘knowledge’”
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Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text, [Chicago; University of Chicago Press; 1993] 96
Conclusion of The Didascalicon
Conclusion
“Now therefore, let us ask Wisdom that it may deign to shine in our hearts and to cast light upon its paths for us, that it may bring us 'to its pure and fleshless feast'”
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Jerome Taylor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts, 136
Bibliography
Gorman, Michael. "Hugh of St. Victor." In A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. 320-25.
Hugh of Saint Victor. The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts. Translated by Jerome Taylor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
Harkins, Franklin T. "Secundus Augustinus: Hugh of St. Victor on Liberal Arts Study and Salvation." Augustinian Studies 37, no. 2 (2006): 219-46.
Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.