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- Title
The Pilgrim's Intuitive Cognition in Pèlerinage de la vie humaine.
- Authors
Strong, David
- Abstract
This article maintains that the Pilgrim in Guillaume de Deguileville's allegorical dream vision, Pèlerinage de la vie humaine, acquires a previously unrecognized importance through his cognitive abilities. Each personified figure's significance depends not upon a general introduction, but the Pilgrim's ability to identify those traits unique to their person. This mode of intellection mirrors the late Scholastic epistemology of intuitive cognition as championed by John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. This theory allows the Pilgrim to grasp a particular object's certitude without relying upon universals. Since this philosophy extols intellectual surety, it serves as a framework for interpreting the Pilgrim's kind of knowing.
- Subjects
GUILLAUME, de Deguileville, 1295-ca. 1358; PELERINAGE de la vie humaine (Poem); OLD French poetry; FRENCH poetry; LITERARY criticism; SCHOLASTICISM in literature; COGNITION in literature; INTUITION in literature; PROVIDENCE &; government of God in literature
- Publication
Quidditas, 2014, Vol 35, p210
- ISSN
1544-9971
- Publication type
Poetry Review