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He mapped all human knowledge before universities existed and argued the whole map leads, in the end, to God.
For him, all knowledge was a ladder, and every rung led the mind a step closer to God.
Connection
Hugh of Saint Victor the Victorine ascent Bonaventure — Bonaventure drew on the Victorine account of the mind's stages of ascent and names Hugh among the authorities standing behind his own map of the soul's journey into God.
Ideas
Words
“Learn everything; you will see afterwards that nothing is superfluous.”
“The whole visible world is like a book written by the finger of God.”
“Ask grace, not instruction; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligence in reading.”
Key Moments
c. 1115 CE
Arrives at Saint-Victor
c. 1125 CE
Master of the school
1141 CE
Dies at the abbey
c. 1221 CE
Born in Bagnoregio
c. 1253 CE
Teaching at Paris
1257 CE
Minister General of the Franciscans
c. 1259 CE
The Journey of the Mind to God
Works
Didascalicon
The Journey of the Mind to God