O lugar da via mística de Hugo de São Vitor na tradição filosófica como exercício espiritual

Abstract

The objective of this research was to rebuild the unity of the thought from the philosopher and mistic theologian Hugh of Saint Victor (1096-1141) and understand it by the light of the philosophic tradition that he is settled. The proposition of a synthesis between philosophy and speculative mystic is assumed from the own pedagogic motivation of the author. He inserts the postulant on the knowledge that integrates the science and liberal arts in a preparatory way of spiritual ascesis. For the study of this Project, that incorporates metaphysical dimensions, ethical and aesthetical, we seek by the status quaestiones a wider insertion for the analysis of this tradition that we identify as perennial and centralized on the christian platonism. Therefore the study treats the transformations of the platonism in the beginning of the second millennium and the role of Hugh and the School of Saint Vitor on this setting. The primary sources that we visited and interpreted was, specialy, the Arca Noe Morali; De Institutione Novitiorum Liber; De Sacramentis Christianae Fidei; De Unione Corporis Et Spiritus; De Vanitate Mundi Et Rerum Transeuntium Usu Libri Quatuo; Eruditionis Didascalicae Libri Septem; and the Soliloquium De Arrha Animae. Through them we verified that the author seeks to establish progressive degrees in the knowledge of God, by the practices and exercises (memoria, meditatio, moralia) that aim the ‘’re-form’’ of the soul by the knowledge and virtues. We emphasized on the ascension to God as a high point of his philosophical search, by privileging the investigation about the soul and Augustinian psychology marked by self-consciousness and by the self-knowledge. We verified the conciliation between ‘’heart and mind’’ that elevated him to the universality of a medieval humanism. We demonstrate how the victorin program reflects ‘’the architectural image of the gothic” on direction to the synthesis and unification. Hugh of St. Victor establishes the man as an intermediary between two plans, conceives a special place to the soul, the reason and the intelligence. The contemplation of the truth requires intellectual effort until the demonstration of the inner and immaterial man par excellence. His mystic way based on thought, meditation and contemplation, consequently, has its value for the philosophic research