Early Modern Aristotle
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Author |
: Eva Del Soldato |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2020-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812251968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812251962 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Aristotle by : Eva Del Soldato
A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern Europe In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite his friendship with Plato, he was a better friend of the truth. With this statement, he rejected his teacher's authority, implying that the pursuit of philosophy does not entail any such obedience. Yet over the centuries Aristotle himself became the authority par excellence in the Western world, and even notorious anti-Aristotelians such as Galileo Galilei preferred to keep him as a friend rather than to contradict him openly. In Early Modern Aristotle, Eva Del Soldato contends that because the authority of Aristotle—like that of any other ancient, including Plato—was a construct, it could be tailored and customized to serve agendas that were often in direct contrast to one another, at times even in open conflict with the very tenets of Peripatetic philosophy. Arguing that recourse to the principle of authority was not merely an instrument for inculcating minds with an immutable body of knowledge, Del Soldato investigates the ways in which the authority of Aristotle was exploited in a variety of contexts. The stories the five chapters tell often develop along the same chronological lines, and reveal consistent diachronic and synchronic patterns. Each focuses on strategies of negotiation, integration and rejection of Aristotle, considering both macro-phenomena, such as the philosophical genre of the comparatio (that is, a comparison of Aristotle and Plato's lives and doctrines), and smaller-scale receptions, such as the circulation of legends, anecdotes, fictions, and rhetorical tropes ("if Aristotle were alive . . ."), all featuring Aristotle as their protagonist. Through the analysis of surprisingly neglected episodes in intellectual history, Early Modern Aristotle traces how the authority of the ancient philosopher—constantly manipulated and negotiated—shaped philosophical and scientific debate in Europe from the fifteenth century until the dawn of the Enlightenment.
Author |
: Donato Verardi |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2023-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350357181 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350357189 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe by : Donato Verardi
Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 2021-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004453319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004453318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century by :
This book explores the dynamics of the commentary and textbook traditions in Aristotelian natural philosophy under the headings of doctrine, method, and scientific and social status. It enquires what the evolution of the Aristotelian commentary tradition can tell us about the character of natural philosophy as a pedagogical tool, as a scientific enterprise, and as a background to modern scientific thought. In a unique attempt to cut old-fashioned historiographic divisions, it brings together scholars of ancient, medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century philosophy. The book covers a remarkably broad range of topics: it starts with the first Greek commentators and ends with Leibniz.
Author |
: Barbara Scalvini |
Publisher |
: Giles |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2021-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1911282751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781911282754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle by : Barbara Scalvini
Examines the ways in which the Aristotelian corpus has been transmitted over time, focusing on one crucial, extended moment: the moment when, thanks to the invention of printing, Aristotle's works became widely available.
Author |
: Jon Miller |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2003-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139442091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139442090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy by : Jon Miller
Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers (principally the Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics) on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment. This collection of essays offers precisely that. Leading historians of philosophy explore the connections between Hellenistic and early modern philosophy in ways that take advantage of new scholarly and philosophical advances. The essays display a challenging range of methods and will be an invaluable point of reference for philosophers, historians of ideas and classicists.
Author |
: Anna Corrias |
Publisher |
: Proceedings of the British Aca |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197267297 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197267295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harmony and Contrast by : Anna Corrias
This volume provides the first assessment of the blurred relationship between Plato and Aristotle between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Assuming a transnational and emic perspective, the case studies discussed in this volume explore the complex and ambiguous interplay between the two ancient philosophers' systems of thought.
Author |
: Paul Richard Blum |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2012-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004232198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004232192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism by : Paul Richard Blum
In Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle’s thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impact on the sciences and mathematics in combination with Renaissance ideas of nature is the topic of the second part. The transformation of Aristotelian metaphysics and theology under the influence of the Renaissance is the third area of this book. Surprising continuity from the late Middle Ages into modernity and the radical difference of subject centered modern philosophy from ‘teachable’ school philosophy are innovative in these studies.
Author |
: Michael Edwards |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2013-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004232334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004232338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy by : Michael Edwards
For many early modern philosophers, particularly those influenced by Aristotle’s Physics and De anima, time had an intimate connection to the human rational soul. This connection had wide-ranging implications for metaphysics, natural philosophy and politics: at its heart was the assumption that man was not only a rational, but also a temporal, animal. In Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy, Michael Edwards traces this connection from late Aristotelian commentaries and philosophical textbooks to the natural and political philosophy of two of the best-known ‘new philosophers’ of the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes. The book demonstrates both time’s importance as a philosophical problem, and the intellectual fertility and continued relevance of Aristotelian philosophy into the seventeenth century.
Author |
: Manfred Svensson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2024-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197752968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197752969 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aristotelian Tradition in Early Modern Protestantism by : Manfred Svensson
Aristotle's moral and political thought formed the backbone of education in practical philosophy for centuries during the classical and medieval periods. It has often been presumed, however, that with the advent of the Protestant Reformation, this tradition was broken. Countering this widespread view, Manfred Svensson discusses dozens of commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics and Politics that emerged from Protestant universities and academies throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, showing that early modern Protestants never lost their connection to Aristotle. He offers a broad contextualization of these works and in-depth discussion of their key ethical and political concepts.
Author |
: Paul Taborsky |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 159 |
Release |
: 2019-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527526822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527526828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Interpretation of Early Modern Philosophy by : Paul Taborsky
What is early modern philosophy? Two interpretative trends have predominated in the related literature. One, with roots in the work of Hegel and Heidegger, sees early modern thinking either as the outcome of a process of gradual rationalization (leading to the principle of sufficient reason, and to “ontology” as distinct from metaphysics), or as a reflection of an inherent subjectivity or representational semantics. The other sees it as reformulations of medieval versions of substance and cause, suggested by, or leading to, early modern scientific developments. This book proposes a rather different kind of explanation. It suggests that the concept of relation, specifically that of dyadic, anti-symmetrical relations, can throw light on a wide variety of developments in early modern thought, such as those concerning causality, sense perception, temporality, and the mereological approach to substance. The book argues that these relations are grounded in an interpretation of causal influence, and not in semantic theories or subjectivity. Furthermore, if it is correct that the problem of unity was, for most of classical antiquity, what the problems of motion, causality and perception were for early modern thinkers, then early modern thought is much closer to the thought of Aristotle than is commonly supposed. The genesis of early modern thought might instead be taken to have occurred in opposition to one aspect of the thought of Duns Scotus (an aspect that lives on in contemporary Neo-Aristotelianism), and that can be explained once the relational perspective examined here is taken into account.