Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus)

Albert is clearly not a sceptical thinker: he has great confidence in the human intellect that “it is even able to somehow (aliquatenus) view God in the present life (in via)” (Super ethica 10, c. 16 ). Any possible uncertainty about matters that cannot be directly investigated by natural reason is overcome by faith (secundum fidem): questions about the creation and finiteness of the world are a typical example in this regard (Physica 8, tr. 1, c. 13–15). Rather, sceptical arguments are discussed and criticised in (2.1) the description of Protagoras’s opinion, particularly in his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, and (2.2) the context of his general reflections on the definition of truth.