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Philosophia ancilla theologiae: límites y avatares de un adagio

2004; University of Navarre; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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José Luis Illanes,

Medieval Philosophy and Theology

John Paul II (Fides et Ratio) evokes the adage «philosophia ancilla theologiae», and teaches that today is hardly useful, because it meets with the principle of autonomy of knowledges and sciences. Professor Illanes marks the history of this adage. He begins with Filon and Clement of Alexandria, who used the expression to point the necessity that all human knowledege opens to the wisdom that watches and lays the foundation of existence. Afterwards he considers the medieval inversion of the adage made by Pedro Damian who ignored the positive value of human reason and at the same time underlined the dry objetivization of the theological thought. And then Professor Illanes briefly analizes the history of the adage until our days and concludes teaching his limites and above all emphasizing the necessity of a sinergy or cooperation between philosophy and theology as for different but complementary knowledges.