San Buenaventura: nutrición y restauración del intelecto según Collationes, 17-18

Abstract

In Collationes in Hexaëmeron, 17-18, Bonaventure specifies twelve pieces of knowledge or enlightenment that correspond to several objects and have the purpose of restoring the intellect in its path of gnoseological ascension towards the first Divine principle. In this sense, such enlightenments can be called fruits since they prepare knowledge and will to guide themselves towards achieving transcendency by knowledge of truth, affection to charity, delight in mildness, and joy in contemplation. This research outlines the marks of Platonic though in Bonaventure’s reflection and analyzes –in the aforementioned extracts – the relationship between the different enlightenments and their corresponding objects regulated by the transcendentals of Truth and Good, that act in the form of light (lux) as the onto-theological foundation of the fruits of knowledge and affection of the soul.