A philosopher at the crossroads : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's encounter with scholastic philosophy
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A philosopher at the crossroads : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's encounter with scholastic philosophy
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, 338）
Brill, 2022
- hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-558) and index
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Description
This study explains how one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), broke new ground by engaging with the scholastic tradition while maintaining his 'humanist' sensibilities. A central claim of the monograph is that Pico was a 'philosopher at the crossroads,' whose sophisticated reading of numerous scholastic thinkers enabled him to advance a different conception of philosophy. The scholastic background to Pico's work has been neglected by historians of the period. This omission has served to create not only an unreliable picture of Pico's thought, but also a more general ignorance of the dynamism of scholastic thought in late fifteenth-century Italy. The author argues that these deficiencies of modern scholarship stand in need of correction.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Scholastic Formation and Training in Italy and Paris
1 Status Quaestionis
2 Pico in Padua (1480-1482) and Beyond
3 Pico in Paris: When and What
Part 2: Scholastic Traces and Influence. Pico's Attitude towards the Scholastic Tradition
4 A Historical Approach: Scholastic Thinkers and the New Status of Philosophy
5 The Apology as a Case-Study
6 Pico and Albert the Great
7 Pico and Thomas Aquinas
8 Pico and Francis of Mayronnes
9 Pico and John Duns Scotus
10 Pico and Henry of Ghent
11 Pico and Giles of Rome
Part 3: Scholastic Reactions to Pico and the Reception of His Thought and Method
12 Bernardo Torni against Four Theses concerning Natural Philosophy
13 Galgani da Siena against a Thesis on the Nature of Sound
14 Pedro Garsia against the Apology
15 Picus ut pica locutus est: Giovanni Caroli against Certain Theological Theses
16 Antonio Cittadini di Faenza against De ente et uno
17 Pietro Pomponazzi against Pico on Astrology and Beyond: Modification vs. Rejection
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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