Bernard of Chartres (Latin: Bernardus Carnotensis; died after 1124) was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator.
[5]Bernard, like others of his school, studied the Timaeus and the Neo-Platonists more than Aristotle's dialectical treatises and Boethius's commentaries.
Matter was brought out of nothingness by God's creative act and is the element which, in union with Ideas, constitutes the world of sensible things.
It was by means of the native forms, which penetrate matter, that distinction, order, regularity, and number were introduced into the universe.
Paul Edward Dutton has shown that a set of anonymous glosses on Plato's Timaeus must be attributed to Bernard.