Between Ramus, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Francesco Vimercato’s Commentary to Book Twelve of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Between Ramus, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Francesco Vimercato’s Commentary to Book Twelve of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

What kind of causality does the Aristotelian Prime Mover exert on the heaven? Who “loves” the Prime Mover? Renaissance peripatetic philosopher, Francesco Vimercato, a “royal” teacher of “Greek and Latin philosophy” in Paris during the forties and the fifties of the 16th century tried to resolve thes...

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Main Author: Danilo Facca
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 2012-02-01
Series:Peitho
Subjects:
Aristotle
Vimercato
Metaphysics
Prime Mover
Renaissance Aristotelianism
Online Access:https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/8059
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Peitho
Aristotle
Vimercato
Metaphysics
Prime Mover
Renaissance Aristotelianism
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title Between Ramus, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Francesco Vimercato’s Commentary to Book Twelve of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
title_short Between Ramus, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Francesco Vimercato’s Commentary to Book Twelve of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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title_fullStr Between Ramus, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes. Francesco Vimercato’s Commentary to Book Twelve of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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title_sort between ramus, alexander of aphrodisias and averroes. francesco vimercato’s commentary to book twelve of aristotle’s metaphysics
publisher Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
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publishDate 2012-02-01
description What kind of causality does the Aristotelian Prime Mover exert on the heaven? Who “loves” the Prime Mover? Renaissance peripatetic philosopher, Francesco Vimercato, a “royal” teacher of “Greek and Latin philosophy” in Paris during the forties and the fifties of the 16th century tried to resolve these traditional puzzles that resulted from the exegesis of the Metaphysics XII, 6–7. His solution appears to be innovative, if compared to the ancient and the medieval ones. It seems partially to prefigure the last two decades’ interpretations of Aristotelian “theology”.
topic Aristotle
Vimercato
Metaphysics
Prime Mover
Renaissance Aristotelianism
url https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/8059
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