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Hexaemeral reductions

Here’s why there hasn’t been much action here, lately.

Bonaventure’s reduction of the arts to divine wisdom, with special emphasis on the seven days of creation and Hugh of S. Victor’s triad of divine attributes.

Artes Truth 1 Truth 2 Truth 3
Day 1 ¶5: Divine Wisdom/Scripture Eternal Generation and Incarnation of the Son The pattern of life Union of the Soul and God
Day 2 ¶8: Sense Knowledge Medium of … Exercise of … Delight in …
Day 3 ¶11: Mechanical Arts Production Effect Fruit
Day 4 ¶15: Rational Philosophy Speaker That which is spoken Audience
Day 5 ¶19: Natural Philosophy The Relation to Proportion The Effect of Causality Medium of Union
Day 6 ¶23: Moral Philosophy Rectitude in between two extremes Rectitude of conformity to rule of life Rectitude in the direction of the apex of the mind
Day 7 ¶6: et ideo succedit eis septima dies requietionis, quae vesperam non habet, scilicet illuinatio gloriae.

©TLOU, 2011

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