271:, earth, water, air and fire. Godfrey admits four principal capabilities in man: sensation, imagination, reason, and intelligence. Man's analytic reason and power of insight have the theoretical science of philosophy for their natural fulfillment. But a supernatural fulfillment, he maintains, consists in love. To this end divine intervention is needed to confer on man the perfective graces, or gifts, of enlightenment, affectivity, and perseverance.
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philosopher to systematize history and knowledge into a comprehensive, rational structure. Godfrey used the symbolism of a biblical framework to treat the physical, psychological, and ethical aspects of man. He affirmed man's matter-spirit unity and the basic goodness of his nature, tempering this
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poem presented to Abbot
Stephen of St. Genevieve on the occasion of his appointment to the position at some point following 1173. It was originally one of three treatises, forming a unified corpus when combined with the
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only through relatively recent scholarship, although their fundamental concepts of the positive values of man and nature were recognized to a limited extent by the high
Scholasticism of the 13th century.
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optimism with the realization that human nature has been weakened ("fractured") by sin, but not to an intrinsically corrupted and irreparable extent. In the
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between the years 1144 and 1155 at the school on the Petit Pont founded by Adam of
Balsham. Like his friend Stephen of Tournai, to whom he dedicated
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Godefridus de Sancto
Victore, Galfredus de Sancto Victore, Galfredus Victoriensis, Geoffrey de Saint-Victor, Godefroy de Saint-Victor
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Interpretation of scripture: theory. A selection of works of Hugh, Andrew, Richard and
Godfrey of St Victor, and of Robert of Melun
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Interpretation of scripture: theory. A selection of works of Hugh, Andrew, Richard and
Godfrey of St Victor, and of Robert of Melun
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ms. 1002, dated c. 1178–1180), including two self-portraits. Parts of
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Repertorium edierter Texte des Mittelalters aus dem Bereich der Philosophie und angrenzender Gebiete
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recalls the insight of classical philosophy and of the early Church Fathers, viz., that man is a
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Thirty-two sermons also survive. Most are unpublished, but the published sermons include:
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