Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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which he found inherent in or adherent to the same subject. In thisway he looked upon matter separated from all form, fomi separated from allmatter, or merely matter separated fi-om certain forms, and at the same timeunited to certain others. Each of these notions, each of these distinctconceptions, he made to correspond with a nature, an .existence of its own-It was to obscure and intangible lucubrations such as these that scholasticismdevoted voluminous treatises, which led to passionate discussion, and whichwere the main subject of conversation amongst the students while they werepacing up and down the Pre-aux-Clercs (Fig. 47). The champions of St. Thomas and Duns Scotus wased war against eachother for several centuries in the vague domain of obscure abstractions.Alexander of Hales was superseded by Duns Scotus, as represented by hisdisciples and followers, ^-iz. Francois de Mayronis (surnamed the EnlightenedDoctor), Antonio Andrea, John Bassolius, and Pietro dAquila (Fig. 48). The
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•o o Ph W e OJ o t3 p a p- s -. >-, fl -»1 C S ^ s 3 f^ - a II 64 PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES. Dominicans did not give up the contest, and St. Thomas had many ferventand eloquent successors. In order to avoid being accused of betrajingtheir cause, says M. Haureau, all Franciscans were obliged to declareagainst St. Thomas, and all Dominicans against Dvms Scotus. The fewexceptions were denounced as schismatics. Thus, for instance, PierredAuriol, surnamed in the University of Paris the Eloquent Dorfor, was,although a Franciscan, one of the nominalists. A dialectician of the firstrank, he attacked without mercy psychological realism in St. Thomas,and did not spare the natural species, the image-ideas of his school. Thisfierce controversy, which indirectly attacked the doctrine of Duns Scotus,caused great excitement in the ranks of the realists, most of whom belongedto the Order of Franciscans. Upon the other hand, the secession of Durandde St. Pourcain, called the Veri/ Romhife Doctor, who

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