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17 - John of La Rochelle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2010

Janet Coleman
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London School of Economics and Political Science
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During the decade 1230–40 in Paris, theologians judged the various competing psychological doctrines to represent a very serious problem. In effect, they were faced with three conceptions of man: one that was theological where man was understood as a morally engaged agent in the economy of salvation; another, from the Greco-Arabic tradition, which considered man as an element amongst others comprising the universe; and increasingly, a third in which man was conceived as capable of developing the habitus of virtues, a conception drawn from the rhetorical and moral treatises of Cicero and other ancients on the virtues. De Anima tracts written in this period were linked with treatises De Bono et Virtutibus whereby the classification of the virtues was closely linked with the soul and its powers. The treatise by the eighth-century monk, John of Damascus, his De Fide Orthodoxa was also drawn upon to show the connection between virtues and the soul's powers. These traditions would be combined, at first uneasily, to produce important consequences for an enlarged understanding of the memory.

On the one hand, Augustine and Peter the Lombard influenced theologians to focus on sensuality, reason and the free will, while on the other, Aristotle read through Avicennan eyes inspired them to concentrate on the external and internal senses, the appetite, the practical or potential intellect and the will.

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Ancient and Medieval Memories
Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past
, pp. 389 - 400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1992

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  • John of La Rochelle
  • Janet Coleman, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ancient and Medieval Memories
  • Online publication: 06 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521331.022
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  • Janet Coleman, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ancient and Medieval Memories
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  • John of La Rochelle
  • Janet Coleman, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: Ancient and Medieval Memories
  • Online publication: 06 January 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521331.022
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