Boetius of Dacia

Boetius of Dacia (also Boethius of Sweden, † probably around 1284) was a Swedish or Danish philosopher.

Life

Boetius was probably a secular clergy and canons of the Diocese of Linköping. He is the most famous supporters of Siger of Brabant and a leader of the radical Aristotelians and Averroists who taught mainly in the second half of the 13th century at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris and the specific teachings condemned in 1270 and 1277 by the Paris Bishop Stephen Tempier were. After 1277 Boetius fled with Siger of Paris and appealed to the pope. In Orvieto, he was however determined by the papal curia and joined the Dominican Order at where he belonged to the Order of Dacia (Denmark).

Thinking

Boethius defended an unbridled rationalism in the sense that each subject area is rational examinable and the mind also can justify conclusions that contradict the Christian faith. For example, he considered the creation from nothing as impossible as for the resurrection of the dead and the non- eternity of the world. In De bono summo he explains the life of reason as a philosophical truth show and virtuous life in the sense of Aristotle as the highest goal of human life. Boethius actually tried but just to avoid a contradiction between philosophy and theology. To this end, he shared first on their competencies: the philosophy examines the natural causes, religion contrary, is based on the supernatural, theology thus in a higher-level knowledge source. That's why her fees in cases of conflict quite precedence. Why should what appears philosophically necessary, including the eternity of the world, make the truths of revelation space. Boetius One has attributed a doctrine of double truth, but in fact he seems to have always avoided a philosophical conclusion to call true when they contradicted the faith.

Works

• De bono summo (English Boethius of Dacia: On the Supreme Good, on the Eternity of the World, on Dreams, Translator of John F. Wippel, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 1987)
• De Aeternitate mundi ( German: Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius of Dacia: .. Via the eternity of the world With an introduction by Rolf Schönberger translation and notes by Peter Nickl, 2000)
• Martin grave man: The Sophismataliteratur the 12th and 13th century with text output of a sophism of Boethius of Dacia. In: Contributions to the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages. Volume 36.1, Aschendorff, Münster 1940.
• The sophism Every Man Is an Animal of Necessity. In: Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump ( eds. ): The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical texts. Volume 1: Logic and the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, ISBN 0 - 521-28063 -X.