Philosophïco Excerpt from Medieval Europe
Introduction.
Medieval philosophy is called the philosophy given in Europe and the Middle East during the medieval period or Middle Ages. The fundamental problems discussed during this period were the relationship between faith and reason, the nature and existence of God, the limits of knowledge and freedom in man, the nature of universals and the individuals of divisible and indivisible substances.
Saint Augustine: They defend Christianity against some ideas of the Hellenistic philosophical and positively value Platonic philosophy as an antecedent by building the foundations of future Christian theology. A Christian dogmatics appears that must be taught.
Saint Thomas Aquinas: teachings practiced in monacal schools including Christian, Arab and Jewish scholastic. Influenced by Aristotelism, they recognize the rationality of Greek philosophers trying to reconcile reason and faith, this philosopher was more interested in the relationship between God and the world is how it identifies it as a supreme being.
Developing.
This medieval era is identified with the religious character product of the growth and development of Christianity established by the Church. Philosophy has gone through various stages and ways of thinking different to reach the knowledge today, in the medieval stage there was a delay because the main objective was the study of God and all the explanations of the origin ofLife which were theological and could not have a different opinion because if this were so these people were badly seen and punished by the Church.
While medieval philosophy is in force, it is due to the need to explain the origin of our morals, several customs and realize that some theologians are not the current religious fans and that they demonstrate greater lucidity than many contemporary men.
- Philosophy at the beginning of the Middle Ages based on the theological aspect.
- Christianity is God’s revelation to man.
- The most prominent Christians defend the religion of the attacks of non -believers.
- The philosophers of the Middle Ages accepted Christianity as something true.
- At this time the problem that considered that if to believe in miracles we had to have faith or reach the Christian truths using reason using the reason.
- The most prominent philosophers of this stage of philosophy: San Agustín, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
- St. Augustine’s thought can be synthesized in the following: reason could reach certain limits, since Christianity can only be reached through faith. Before God created the world, ‘ideas’ existed in their thoughts, thus incorporating their Platonic ideas in God.
- The success of Santo Tomás was immense;His marks one of the great culminations in the history of philosophy. After him, Western philosophers could only choose between humbly or separate from his teaching. In the centuries after his death, the dominant and constant tendency among Catholic thinkers was to adopt the second alternative.
- The starting point of both philosophies is God.
- It develops in the Middle Ages.
- It is possible to consolidate Christianity.
- Philosophy with religion is combined.
conclusion.
It is necessary, as students of philosophy, respecting this thought although we lack faith, and we do not like orthodoxy, since it provides continuity to philosophical thinking and extends it towards the Arabs and Jews. Medieval philosophy must be the pride of the Church, and one more phase in the history of philosophy, neither good nor bad, necessary to understand what surrounds us and what prepares us to become.
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