TOWARDS AN ANALOGICAL DIDACTICS OF THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY BASED ON MAURICIO BEUCHOT’S ANALOGICAL HERMENEUTICS

Abstract

The article proposes the basic elements of an alternative didactic approach for  teaching the history of medieval philosophy, overcoming the dispersion of chronological  frameworks. Starting from the premise that any teaching practice in philosophy implies taking a prior philosophical stance, the research adopts Mauricio Beuchot's analogical  hermeneutics as its methodological framework. Then, through the analysis of authors  within the histories of medieval philosophy, drawing from the proposals of Frederick  Copleston and of Giovanni Reale and Dario Antiseri, three analogies of attribution derived  from three accounts within Saint Jerome of Stridon's epistles have been structured. The  results show that these texts allow for the proportional ordering and hierarchization of  stances regarding the relationship between faith and reason through three paradigms:  non-relation (Jerome's dream), continuity (the letter to Magnus), and parallelism (the life of  Saint Paul the Hermit). The resulting mapping organizes twenty-five key authors of the  medieval canon according to their proximity to an analogical core of attribution.