Robert Kilwardby c. 1215 – 1279
Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215 – 1279) was an English philosopher of the Medieval era, associated with Medieval Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Christian Philosophy.
Robert Kilwardby was an English Dominican philosopher, archbishop of Canterbury from 1273 to 1278, and finally a cardinal of the Roman Church. After teaching the arts at Paris and theology at Oxford, he held the Dominican provincialate of England and shaped the order's philosophical formation in the Augustinian-Aristotelian tradition. As archbishop he issued the Oxford condemnations of 1277, in which a list of philosophical and theological theses associated with the new Thomistic Aristotelianism was prohibited from being taught at Oxford. His De Ortu Scientiarum and his commentaries on Aristotle's logical works are landmarks of thirteenth-century Latin scholarship.
Key facts
- Nationality
- English
- Era
- Medieval
- Movements
- Medieval Philosophy, Scholasticism, Christian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Robert Kilwardby:
“All sciences arise from the natural desire of the human mind for truth.”
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Attributed to Robert Kilwardby:
“The order of the sciences mirrors the order of being.”
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Attributed to Robert Kilwardby:
“What is contrary to the Catholic faith cannot be true in any science.”
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Attributed to Robert Kilwardby:
“Logic is the instrument of every other discipline.”
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Attributed to Robert Kilwardby:
“The will follows the intellect's apprehension of the good.”
Robert Kilwardby by topic
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- Robert Kilwardby was associated with Medieval Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Christian Philosophy.
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- Robert Kilwardby was an English Dominican philosopher, archbishop of Canterbury from 1273 to 1278, and finally a cardinal of the Roman Church.
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