In the history of thought, Richard of Saint Victor is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Richard of Saint Victor as 12th-century Scottish mystic, theologian, and philosopher.
Richard of Saint Victor was born at Kingdom of Scotland in 1110. His recorded nationality is France.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
Among his principal works are De Trinitate, Explanatio difficultatum suborientium in expositione tabernaculi foederis and De exterminatione mali et promotione boni. The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Richard of Saint Victor died in 1173, aged 63. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: De Trinitate
- Notable work: Explanatio difficultatum suborientium in expositione tabernaculi foederis
- Notable work: De exterminatione mali et promotione boni
- Notable work: De verbis Job
- Fields: philosophy
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