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Kijewska, Agnieszka, “Eriugena and the twelfth century: the concept of ratio”, in: Willemien Otten, and Michael I. Allen (eds), Eriugena and Creation: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2011, Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 393–425.

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“Eriugena and the twelfth century: the concept of ratio”
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393–425
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John of Salisbury, as well as many thinkers from the twelfth century, asks in his Policraticus (VII, 11) : “What does it mean to truly philosophize?” Quid sit uere philosophari? In Eriugena’s writings one finds a number of similar references to recte philosophantes. Eriugena’s usage of this term is closely related to the term recta ratio, as in the former category (“right philosophizers”) we find those who are capable of using the latter (recta ratio). In my paper I try first to identify and enumerate different shades of meaning of the term ratio which I have grouped into eleven divisions. Thus, according to those divisions one can define the recte philosophantes as those who create a “measurable” system based upon the faculty of reason. Such a system is formed as a result of a methodical reasoning process with a definite starting point and controlled inferential progression; it is expressed in justified statements. The knowledge obtained in this way forms a system illuminating the functioning and the order of the universe by laying bare its principal causes (rationes). Thus reason as a human faculty plays a fundamental role in the formation of such a system of knowledge and guarantees that it is well-founded. Following this scheme I try to stress some similarities between Eriugena’s rationabilis investigatio and the procedures developed by some thinkers of the twelfth century (Thierry of Chartres, William of Conches, Adelard of Bath, John of Salisbury).
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