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Autore / Author: Onorato Grassi

Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università di Roma LUMSA

Titolo / Title: Influenze agostiniane nel «si Deus ipse non esset» di Gregorio da Rimini

Abstract: Among the medieval sources cited in early-modern philosophical and religious works, Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300–1358) appears more than once as the authoritative progenitor of doctrines that have consolidated over time. This can be said of the ‘etiamsi Deus non daretur’ argument, used, among others, by Hugo Grotius and Francisco Suárez, of which in this article we intend to verify the correctness of attribution to Gregory and the relevance of the connection with his ‘si Deus ipse non esset’. This verification is carried out by means of an analysis of the Augustinian influences of Gregory’s positions: it is shown that of the various ‘etiamsi Deus non daretur’ arguments that Western culture would have known and experienced, Gregory’s ‘si Deus ipse non esset’ can be considered mostly as an anticipation of a formula, whose content and meaning, precisely because of the philosophical-moral framework and the Augustinian theological inspiration in which it was expressed, were very different from those that the authors of the following centuries would have attributed to it.

Keywords: Gregory of Rimini; God; ‘etiamsi Deus non daretur’ argument; Augustine.

English title: Augustinian Influences in the ‘Si Deus ipse non esset’ of Gregory of Rimini

DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-11

Volume: 3

Pagine / Pages: 375-407

Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/06/2016

Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-11

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