After having studied philosophy at the University of Cologne “in the way of Thomas” (in via Thomae), Denys de Leeuwis (b. 1402; d. 1471) entered the Charterhouse at Roermond, where he spent, almost uninterruptedly, the rest of his life. To him we owe a massive literary output, which he organized according to a three-tiered hierarchical scheme of wisdom: philosophy is the lowest level of a hierarchy which, through scholastic theology, culminates in mystical theology. The three orders of wisdom are analogical and isomorphic; that is, philosophy prepares for and somehow foreshadows the superior modes of supernatural knowledge. This explains Denys’ keen interest in philosophical matters. Unlike the majority of fifteenth-century Carthusians, Denys conceived of mystical theology not as an affective act only, but as a cognitive act complemented by love. Influenced by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Albert the Great, Henry of Ghent, and fifteenth-century Albertists, Denys came to challenge, during his life, some major doctrines of his early “patronus” Thomas Aquinas.
Denys the Carthusian / Palazzo, Alessandro. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020), pp. 1-5.
Titolo: | Denys the Carthusian |
Autori: | Palazzo, Alessandro |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. ONLINE |
Luogo di edizione: | Dordrecht |
Casa editrice: | Springer |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2020 |
ISBN: | 978-94-024-1151-5 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/254342 |
Citazione: | Denys the Carthusian / Palazzo, Alessandro. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020), pp. 1-5. |
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