Abstract

CRESTA, Gerald. A medieval feature of tolerance in Buenaventura: the cohibitio. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.1, pp.13-28. ISSN 1851-8753.

In several passages of the Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences, the author addresses the issue of the venial sins by incorporating, in a theological context, the concept of tolerance in the singular meaning inherited from the Victorines’ School, cohibitio, to indicate an aspect of permission that, as opposed to the concept of prohibitio, it would bring the possibility of tolerating a venial sin in order to avoid a greater evil. This paper presents the concept of cohibitio in its previous discussion before Bonaventure, and stress the relationship of tolerance with the others virtues through the common form of directive form: the carity, which gives the virtues a complement to their natural ordering to Godness as their ultimate goal. In this context, it also shows how conceptual structure of the theory of virtues in Bonaventure remains a philosophical scheme which finds its justification in the metaphysics of transcendental of Being.

Keywords : Tolerance; Cohibitio; Virtue; Transcendental of Being.

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