Search results for "Aristotelianism"
showing 10 items of 11 documents
Desarrollo histórico y epistemológico de los conceptos elemento químico, sustancia y sustancia simple (Primera parte)
2020
<p>La epistemología de cualquier concepto científico adquiere su pleno significado teniendo en cuenta el problema que hizo posible su conceptualización en un momento histórico dado y su posterior desarrollo. El objetivo de este artículo consistirá en recordar el problema que originó la necesidad epistemológica de introducir la idea de elemento químico a lo largo de la historia y cómo se ha ido desarrollando hasta el siglo XVIII para incidir en la epistemología del concepto de sustancia (pura) y cómo fue cambiando su relación con la del elemento químico. Este manuscrito está dividido en cuatro apartados principales, el primero de ellos titulado “El mundo natural de los filósofos griego…
Between Life and Existence. Heidegger’s Aristotelianism and the Question of Animality
2021
This paper starts by investigating the Aristotelian roots of Heidegger’s stance toward animal life from 1924 lecture course “Basic concepts of Aristotelian philosophy” to 1929/30 lecture course “The fundamental concepts of Metaphysics”. In following Aristotle, Heidegger displays the ontological transition from life to existence as grounded to the peculiar linguistic ability of human beings. In doing that, both Heidegger and Aristotle seem to establish a connection between an existential faculty (logos) and the apparently dominant position occupied by our species. On the other side, though, to be endowed with logos means for human beings to be able to de-centre themselves in recognizing the …
Human Sociability in Antonio Montecatini's (1537–99) Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
2021
The present article delves into the history of political philosophy by discussing human sociability in Antonio Montecatini's (1537–99) commentary on Aristotle's Politics. The focus is on a philosophical analysis of three interrelated ideas that Montecatini discusses: (1) Aristotle's dictum that human beings are political animals by nature; (2) naturalness of the household; and (3) the nature and origin of political communities. Montecatini's views are briefly related to those of John Case (ca. 1546–1600), and they are also contextualized within the late medieval commentary tradition on the Politics, but the main aim is to clarify Montecatini's philosophical position and examine the ways in …
A transcription of MS Vatican, Borgh. 129: Gualterus Burlaeus Expositio super libros Politicorum, lib. 1, tract. 1, cap. 1
2021
This is a transcription of the beginning of Walter Burley’s (c. 1275–after 1344) commentary on Aristotle’s Politics (book one, tractate one, chapter one). The transcription reproduces the text of Vatican, MS Borgh. 129, fol. 1r–148v (here fol. 2rb–6va), which has been accessed in a high quality digital reproduction in colour. The commentary has been dated between 1338/39 and 1342. The transcription includes two apparatuses. The first of them is dedicated to references, mainly to Aristotle’s Politics. The other apparatus is for critical notes, and its main function is to reproduce marginalia. The manuscript contains several corrections by another hand (marked here as V1), and since these cor…
Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies
2012
In the last few decades, scholars have rethought the history of matter theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the sources, origins and antecedents of atomism and corpuscularianism in the seventeenth century. In particular, recent commentators have shown that the supposed opposition between atomism and Aristotelianism is insufficient for understanding the historical development of matter theories and their conceptual plurality. Along with corpuscular doctrines dating back to Antiquity, such as those of Heron or Asclepiades, well treated in Lasswitz’s classic work, certain aspects of the Aristotelian corpus and tradition have contributed in important ways to subsequent corpu…
Locating the Self Within the Soul – Thirteenth-Century Discussions
2008
According to the traditional picture of the history of Western philosophy the High Middle Ages was intellectually Aristotelian, dominated by the Thomist approach. To some extent, this picture was formed already in the Early Modern Era, when many important thinkers distinguished their own philosophy from that of the scholastics. The university philosophy rejected by Descartes, for example, was indeed characteristically Aristotelian, and to a considerable extent even based on a thirteenth-century interpretation of Aristotle by Thomas Aquinas. It may be true that the scholastic philosophy, superseded in the seventeenth century by new approaches, was a direct extension of certain Classical tren…
Being Itself and the Being of Beings : Reading Aristotle’s Critique of Parmenides (Physics 1.3) after Metaphysics
2018
The essay studies Aristotle’s critique of Parmenides (Physics 1.3) in the light of the Heideggerian account of Platonic-Aristotelian metaphysics as an approach to being (Sein) in terms of beings (das Seiende). Aristotle’s critique focuses on the presuppositions of the Parmenidean thesis of the unity of being. It is argued that a close study of the presuppositions of Aristotle’s own critique reveals an important difference between the Aristotelian metaphysical framework and the Parmenidean “protometaphysical” approach. The Parmenides fragments indicate being as such in the sense of the pure, undifferentiated “is there” (τὸ ἐόν)—as the intelligible accessibility of meaningful reality to think…
The Body of the Soul. Lucretian Echoes in the Renaissance Theories on the Psychic Substance and its Organic Repartition
2015
In the 16th and 17th centuries, when Aristotelianism still was the leading current of natural philosophy and atomistic theories began to arise, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura stood out as an attractive and dangerous model. The present paper reassesses several relevant aspects of Lucretius’ materialistic psychology by focusing on the problem of the soul’s repartition through the limbs discussed in Book 3. A very successful Lucretian image serves as fil rouge throughout this survey: the description of a snake chopped up, with its pieces moving on the ground (Lucretius DRN 1969, 3.657–669). The paper’s first section sets the poet’s theory against the background of ancient psychology, pointing out …
"Platonism", "Aristotelianism" and "Renaissancism" in Luca Pacioli's double-entry
2013
The famous Tractatus XI particularis de computis et scripturis of Luca Pacioli (1494) marked a critical passage in the history of Ragioneria because, for the first time, it has claimed an explicit co-presence of practical, technical and theoretical aspects. But, since Paciolo was primarily “mathematicus rarissimus” e “theologus insignis”, his main motivations towards the double-entry should probably be found on motivations and knowledge of metadisciplinary level, chronologically foregoing and perhaps logically pre-eminent compared to the disciplinary ones. Therefore this paper aims to investigate whether, beyond his own initiation, he has felt for this kind of writing such an interest to in…
Sobre la coherència de l?aristotelisme marquià : la polisèmia del terme ?virtut?
2018
Resum: La coherència de l’aristotelisme marquià no ha estat encara ponderada en profunditat. Volem contribuir a la seua ponderació amb l’anàlisi d’un aspecte particular: l’ús marquià del terme «virtut» en contrast amb la definició aristotèlica. Donada la polisèmia del terme grec, la seua recepció pel cristianisme medieval i la seua utilització pel poeta valencià plantegen determinades dificultats que seran analitzades a partir de les fonts que podien circular per la Corona d’Aragó al segle XV.
 Paraules clau: Ausias March, Aristòtil, Ètica medieval, Virtut
 Abstract: The coherence of March’s Aristotelianism has not yet been weighted up. We want to contribute to its weighting with …