Medieval · 1221–1274
Who influenced Bonaventure?
Influences and legacy
Franciscan Seraphic Doctor who read creation as a book of traces leading to God.
Bonaventure was influenced by Augustine of Hippo and Pseudo-Dionysius, and went on to influence Duns Scotus. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: Claude François, Public domain See the whole map
Who was Bonaventure?
Bonaventure, born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian Franciscan theologian and philosopher of the scholastic age. He became the seventh Minister General of the Franciscan order, a cardinal and Bishop of Albano.
He was canonised in 1482, and in 1588 Pope Sixtus V declared him a Doctor of the Church with the title Seraphic Doctor. Many medieval texts once credited to him are now attributed to a "Pseudo-Bonaventure".
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Bonaventure?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Augustine of Hippo AD 354–430
- Pseudo-Dionysius c. 5th–6th c.
Who did Bonaventure influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Bonaventure.
- Duns Scotus c. 1266–1308
The line of teachers behind Bonaventure
The longest documented line of influence ending at Bonaventure runs 11 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Bonaventure
Indirect influences
- Through Augustine of Hippo: Plato, Tertullian, Plotinus
- Through Pseudo-Dionysius: Proclus
The second generation
Contemporaries of Bonaventure
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Bonaventure, with no direct line between them.
- Roger Bacon c. 1219–1292
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Henry of Ghent c. 1217–1293
- Ramon Llull c. 1232–1315
- Siger of Brabant c. 1240–1284
- Albertus Magnus c. 1200–1280
- Dōgen 1200–1253
Bonaventure by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 28
- Thinkers downstream
- 19
- Wikipedia languages
- 63 — #29 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Bonaventure
- Who influenced Bonaventure?
- Augustine of Hippo and Pseudo-Dionysius.
- Who did Bonaventure influence?
- Duns Scotus.
- When did Bonaventure live?
- 1221–1274. The map files Bonaventure under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Bonaventure card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Bonaventure in 63 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Averroes 1126–1198
- Erasmus 1466–1536
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