(Redirected from Pierre Aureole)'Petrus Aureolus'
[1](c.
1280-
January 101322), was a
scholastic philosopher and theologian. We know little of his life before 1312. After this time, he taught at the
Franciscan convent in
Bologna, then at the convent in
Toulouse, around 1314. He went to Paris in 1316 in order to qualify for his doctorate, where he read the
Sentences. In 1318 he was appointed master of theology at the
University of Paris. In 1321, he was appointed by his mentor, Pope John XXII, to the position of Archbishop of
Aix-en-Provence, but died not long after in 1322.
Works and doctrine
Auriol is best known for the enormous ''Scriptum super primum Sententiarum'' his commentary on the
Sentences of
Peter Lombard, which runs to more than 1100 folio pages (Auriol, Rome 1596). He also wrote ''Tractatus de principiis'', a non-theological work, written while he was lector at the Franciscan convent in Bologna, sometime before 1312, and some treatises on the
Immaculate Conception written at the Franciscan convent in Toulouse.
Aureolus was at first a
Scotist. Later, he arrived at a position closer to that of the nominalist
Durandus. He denied the reality of universals, the existence of species and of the active intellect, the distinction between essence and existence, and the distinction between the soul and its faculties. These doctrines are considered by some to have prepared the way for the
conceptualism of
Ockham. Ockham was certainly aware of Auriol's work.
His ability earned for him the titles of ''Doctor Facundus'' and ''Doctor Abundans''.
Notes
1. Peter Auriol or 'Aureol, Oriol.
Primary Sources
★ ''Quodlibeta'', ''Commentaria in Libros Sententiarum'', Rome (1596-1605)
Secondary Sources
★ Friedman, Russell (2002) "
Peter Auriol", in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''
External links
★
The Peter Auriol Homepage
★
Peter Auriol in the Franciscan Authors catalogue
★
Petrus Aureoli at the
Catholic Encyclopedia
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