Renaissance Aristotelians

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Renaissance Aristotelians were early modern European philosophers and scholars who revived, interpreted, and taught Aristotle’s works—often through medieval and ancient commentaries—within universities and humanist circles.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intellectual tradition ⓘ
philosophical movement ⓘ
scholarly community ⓘ
aimedTo defend Aristotelian philosophy in university teaching ⓘ
reconcile Aristotle with Christian doctrine ⓘ
update Aristotelianism with new philological methods ⓘ
centralFigure Aristotle ⓘ
characterizedBy commentary tradition ⓘ
curricular standardization ⓘ
systematic disputation ⓘ
use of humanist philology ⓘ
use of scholastic methods ⓘ
contextOf Reformation and Counter-Reformation debates ⓘ
rise of early modern science ⓘ
transition from medieval to early modern philosophy ⓘ
debated eternity of the world ⓘ
immortality of the soul ⓘ
nature of motion ⓘ
relationship between faith and reason ⓘ
status of substantial forms ⓘ
structure of the heavens ⓘ
unity of the intellect ⓘ
engagedWith Reformation theologians ⓘ
Renaissance Averroists ⓘ
linked to: Latin Averroists

Renaissance Platonists ⓘ
Renaissance humanists ⓘ
early modern mathematicians ⓘ
early modern physicians ⓘ
followedBy Cartesianism ⓘ
early modern anti-Aristotelianism ⓘ
mechanical philosophy ⓘ
hadNotableMember Agostino Nifo ⓘ
Cesare Cremonini ⓘ
Francesco Piccolomini ⓘ
Francisco Suárez ⓘ
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ⓘ
Giovanni de’ Celaya ⓘ
Giulio Pace ⓘ
Jacopo Zabarella ⓘ
John Case ⓘ
Pedro da Fonseca ⓘ
Pietro Pomponazzi ⓘ
hasGeographicScope England ⓘ
Europe ⓘ
France ⓘ
Germany ⓘ
Iberian Peninsula ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
hasTimePeriod 15th century ⓘ
16th century ⓘ
Renaissance ⓘ
early 17th century ⓘ
influenced Jesuit education ⓘ
Reformation-era scholasticism ⓘ
early modern ethics ⓘ
early modern metaphysics ⓘ
early modern natural philosophy ⓘ
university curricula in early modern Europe ⓘ
influencedBy Averroism ⓘ
linked to: Latin Averroists

Greek philology ⓘ
Scotism ⓘ
Thomism ⓘ
humanism ⓘ
medieval scholasticism ⓘ
precededBy medieval Aristotelianism ⓘ
produced commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
disputations ⓘ
lectures ⓘ
paraphrases of Aristotelian works ⓘ
textbooks ⓘ
relatedTo Jesuit scholasticism ⓘ
Renaissance Averroism ⓘ
linked to: Latin Averroists

Renaissance Platonism ⓘ
Renaissance humanism ⓘ
scholastic Aristotelianism ⓘ
studied Aristotle’s ethics ⓘ
linked to: Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle’s logical works ⓘ
Aristotle’s metaphysics ⓘ
Aristotle’s natural philosophy ⓘ
Aristotle’s politics ⓘ
taughtAt European universities ⓘ
Italian universities ⓘ
University of Bologna ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ
University of Padua ⓘ
University of Paris ⓘ
taughtIn arts faculties ⓘ
medical faculties ⓘ
theology faculties ⓘ
usedLanguage Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
vernacular European languages ⓘ
usedSource Arabic commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ

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Simplicius of Cilicia → influenced → Renaissance Aristotelians ⓘ
Latin Averroists → influenced → Renaissance Aristotelianism ⓘ
linked to: Renaissance Aristotelians
Περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως → influenced → Renaissance biology ⓘ
linked to: Renaissance Aristotelians
De generatione animalium → influenced → Renaissance natural philosophy ⓘ
linked to: Renaissance Aristotelians