Abstract

BONETTI, Carolina Peixoto Gontijo de Oliveira  and  PERIN, Conceição Solange Bution. Sapientia, philosophy and Science: essential features for Hugo de São Vitor’s educational conception (1096-1141). Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.28, e023004. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v28.e023004.

In this paper, we reflect upon Hugo of St. Victor's educational conception as presented in his pedagogical work entitled Didascalicon de Studio Legendi and our goal is to comprehend the use of reading as a method for the development of the human intellect. The author's writings, set in a period of important transformation for the medieval West, provide his disciples with the crucial elements to achieve a good study. Drawing on the concept of long duration, we have examined, in this study, some important educational-social aspects for modern human development, since Social History makes us understand that present and past are intertwined by means of characteristics that make us human: the memory and the behaviors that engender civileness. In our text analysis, we noticed that Sapientia is taken, for the author, as the main goal of a student's journey and, to be possible to reach it, it is required the adequate use of Philosophy and Science. These, in their turn, when sustained by memory, could provide a decrease in the brutalization prevailing in society and exercise the friendship of the human being with his Creator. The use of a good study method and the choice of the will also characterize this educational medieval conception, which stood out for promoting the transition from the monastic mode of reading to the scholastic one. Didascalicon is also renowned as a text that has transcended the copying of content – a common practice at the time – in which its author expresses, in written form, his ideas (soaked with Augustinian influences), and which seeks to instruct those who seek the way to reach Sapientia – in which resides the form of the perfect good.

Keywords : Teaching; Middle Ages; Hugo of St. Victor; Didascalicon.

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