Simon of Faversham

Simon of Faversham (* around 1260 in Faversham ; † 1306 ) was an English scholastic philosopher.

Life

Simon of Faversham graduated from Oxford with a Magister Artium. He likely taught in Paris before returning to Oxford in 1289. This is indicated by mentions in manuscripts in continental Europe, partly under the name of Simon Anglicus (once as Symone Anglico Parisius in his Quaestiones) and the influence of Petrus de Alvernia and his writings from the 1270s and early 1280s, of which he was probably a student. In 1290 he was ordained a deacon by Archbishop Peckham and became rector of Preston near Faversham (a benefice that served to support his scholarly life). At Oxford he mainly taught in the artist faculty. He was never ordained a priest and did not take the degree of Doctor of Theology until 1304 when he became Chancellor of Oxford University , for which a doctorate was required. He died in 1306 when he on the way to Pope Clement V was. One reason for the trip was that he became Archdeacon of Canterbury in September 1305, but the Pope appointed another candidate, which Simon of Faversham wanted to undo with the support of the King.

He is known as a commentator on Aristotle , especially his logic and psychological writings, the comments mostly originating from his teaching activities. He used to be seen as a Thomist ( Etienne Gilson ), but he also deviated from him (John Longeway), so he followed Albertus Magnus in his views on the soul and later the Augustinism of Heinrich von Gent in questions of the difference between essence and Existence. In his interpretation of the Analytica posteriora he followed Thomas Aquinas rather than Robert Grosseteste or Aegidius Romanus (who also influenced him).

Fonts

• Magistri Simonis Anglici sive de Faverisham Opera Omnia. Volume 1, edited by Pasquale Mazzarella, Padua 1957.
• Sten Ebbesen , Thomas Izbicki, John Longeway, Francesco del Punta, Eileen Serene, Eleonore Stump (eds.): Quaestiones super libro Elenchorum. Toronto 1984

literature

• Wolf Friedrich Antonius: The intellectual doctrine of Simon von Faversham after his De anima commentaries. Dissertation, Bonn 1966
• SF Brown: Faversham, Simon of. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
• Alice Margaret Cooke:  Simon of Faversham . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 52:  Shearman - Smirke. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, p. 263 (English).
• Martin Grabmann: The Aristotelesommentare of Simon von Faversham: Handwritten messages. Meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Science, Philosophical-Historical Department, born 1933, Issue 3
• John Longeway: Simon of Faversham's questions on the posterior analytics: a thirteenth-century view of science. Dissertation, Cornell University 1977

Web links

• John Longeway:  Simon of Faversham. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
• Longeway, Simon of Faversham, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (part)
• Longeway website with texts to and from Faversham

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Longeway, Stanford encycl. of Philosophy