William of Auvergne (bishop)

William of Auvergne, Latin Guilielmus Alvernus, French Guillaume d' Auvergne, (* 1180 in Aurillac, † 1249 in Paris) was a scholastic philosopher.

William of Auvergne studied at the Sorbonne in Paris where he was entrusted after successful graduation with a lectureship in theology. 1228 William was ordained of Auvergne Bishop of Paris and as such was a counselor of the young King Louis IX. , Which he in 1244 on his sickbed decreased the Kreuzzugsgelübte.

In his writings, " De universo ", " De anima ", " De animae immortalitate " and " De Veritate, " he adheres to Aristotle, the Arabs and Hermes Trismegistus. It differs in the latter texts a six-fold truth by the same

He also denied the eternity of the world, looking for the diversity of the human soul from the body, including their simplicity and immortality darzuthun. His "Opera omnia " recently appeared in Paris 1674th

Works

  • Opera Omnia by F. Hotot, Paris - Orléans - Paris 1674, 2 volumes ( reprinted by Edition Minerva, Frankfurt / M. 1963) Volume 1: digitized in the Google Book Search
  • Volume 2: digitized in the Google Book Search; Digitized, Stanford.
  • Rhetorica divina, Kilian Fischer, Freiburg im Breisgau before 1491, digitized version of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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