«Tamquam speculum sine macula». La visione in Dio secondo Guglielmo di Alnwick

Tamquam speculum sine macula. The vision in God according to William of Alnwick

The question about the secondary object of the beatific vision, variously re-proposed during the 13^th century, was expressed by the Franciscan William Alnwick in these terms: “Does the created intellect, seeing the essence of God, see everything that God sees?” (Utrum intellectus creatus videns Deum per essentiam possit videre omnia quae Deus videt). His position is especially interesting because of the consequent circumscription of the scope and limits of the human intellect in relation to divine ideas as objects of vision.

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