Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Conversations with Aristotle

Constance Blackwell, Sachiko Kusukawa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351911382
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a 'revolution' in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up Charles Schmitt's formulation of the many 'Aristotelianisms' of the period, the papers bring out the variety and richness of the approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed, and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted 'anti-Aristotelians' as Descartes and Hobbes. This constant engagement can indeed be termed 'conversations with Aristotle'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of plates
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Introducing Aristotle to the sixteenth century: the Lefèvre enterprise
• 2 Learning the syllogisms: Byzantine visual aids in Renaissance Italy – Ermolao Barbaro (1454–93) and others
• 3 Philology and philosophy in the margins of early printed editions of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, with special reference to copies held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan
• 4 The cultural programmes of Alessandro Piccolomini and Sperone Speroni at the Paduan Accademia degli Infiammati in the 1540s
• 5 Antistrophic rhetoric: Aristotelian rhetoric in Renaissance Rome and Padua
• 6 Aristotle commentary and ethical behaviour: Bernardo Segni on friendship between unequals (Ethica d’Aristotile tradotta in lingua fiorentina et commentata, 1550)
• 7 La Politique d’Aristote en français par Louis Le Roy (1568)
• 8 Individual and community in the ‘second scholastic’: subjective rights in Domingo de Soto and Francisco Suárez
• 9 Lutheran uses of Aristotle: a comparison between Jacob Schegk and Philip Melanchthon
• 10 The teaching of Aristotle in late sixteenth-century Tübingen
• 11 Kepler as reader and translator of Aristotle
• 12 Aristotelianism more geometrico: Honoré Fabri
• 13 The development of Jesuit ‘physics’ in Italy, 1550–1700: a structural approach
• 14 Metaphysics and natural philosophy as sciences: the Catholic and the Protestant views in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• 15 Language in the mind: reflexive thinking in the late Renaissance
• 16 Lionardo Di Capoa’s Parere (1681): a legal opinion on the use of Aristotle in medicine
• 17 Aristotle and the Cambridge Platonists: the case of Cudworth
• 18 Descartes and the late Scholastics on the order of the sciences
• 19 Hobbes and Aristotle
• Bibliography
• Index