Raymond of Sabunde

Raymond Sabundus ( * ca 1385 in Barcelona, † April 29, 1436 in Toulouse; actually Ramon Sibiuda ) was a Catalan philosopher.

Life and work

Raymond was after studying Artes, medicine and professor of theology at Toulouse and multi- Rector of the University.

He goes in his book Liber creaturarum, which was later also called Theologia naturalis, from Maximitätsprinzip Anselm of Canterbury ( God is the beyond which greater can not be thought; see Ontological argument for God ) and tried following Ramon Lull Christian beliefs derive from the nature of knowledge. Revelation ( the Bible) and natural coincide in his understanding, since they both come from God. The knowledge of nature ( by the freed from original sin and enlightened by faith ) he gives the preference, because it is not only the clergy, but also the layman and can not be falsified.

Michel de Montaigne translated the book into French in 1569 and wrote an apologia de Raimond Sebond.

Works

• Theologia naturalis seu liber creaturarum. Sulzbach 1852. ( Digitized version of the BOD ). Facsimile reprint this issue with literargeschichtlicher introduction and critical edition of the prologue and the titulus I by Friedrich Stegmüller. From man, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1966.