The Double-Truth Theory in the Philosophical Works of Dimitrie Cantemir
The Double-Truth Theory in the Philosophical Works of Dimitrie Cantemir

Summary/Abstract: My paper aims to analyze the relation between truth of faith (secundum fidem) and truth of reason (secundum rationem) in the following treatises by Dimitrie Cantemir: Sacrosanctae scientiae indepingibilis imago (The Image of the Sacred, Undepictable Science), The Divan or The Wise Man's Parley with the World or The Judgment of the Soul with the Body and Compendiolum universae logices institutionis (Small Compendium of logics). The double-truth theory that was formulated in the Middle Ages and ascribed to Averroës (considering religion and philosophy as two distinct sources of knowledge) persisted in the cultural context of European Humanism against the background of the clash between Christian faith and Greek philosophy. A double-truth theory, namely that a proposition could at the same time be true in theology and false in philosophy.” (Copleston, A History of Medieval Philosophy.)

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