By Carlos G. Noreña (auth.)
ISBN-10: 9401016739
ISBN-13: 9789401016735
ISBN-10: 9401016755
ISBN-13: 9789401016759
In spite of its rigorously deliberate - and entirely justified - modesty, the identify of this publication may possibly rather well shock multiple capability reader. it's not common to determine such debatable ideas as "Renaissance," "Renaissance Thought," "Spanish Renaissance," or perhaps "Spanish idea" freely associated jointly within the crowded intimacy of 1 unmarried published line. the writer of those essays is painfully conscious of the com plexity of the floor he has dared to hide. he's additionally acutely aware that every one the assumptions and connotations linked to the identify of this booklet were the topic of significant controversy between students of excessive reputation who claimed (and most likely had) revealing perception into human affairs and concepts. That those pages were written in any respect accordingly wishes a few justification. i'm confident that yes of the disputes between historians of rules don't comment on concerns of substance, yet fairly display the flavor and highbrow idiosyncracies in their authors. a lot of the confrontation is, i feel, a question of aesthetics. those that locate distinct gratification in well-defined labels, simple schemes, and compre hensive generalizations, can not often undergo the corporate of these who insist upon element, complexity, and natural development. The nightmarish limitation, nonetheless unresolved, among team spirit and variety, among the common and the person, haunts the historical past of Ideas.
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The rationalism and naturalism ofTelesio, Patrizi, Campanella, and Giordano Brunoa few decades later - was the logical outcome of these trends of thought. Facing this formidable attack, sixteenth century scholasticism was split into three different branches frequently engaged in mischievous and verbal quarrels: Nominalism, Scotism, and Thomism. The first essay of this book tried to sketch the history of Parisian nominalism and the decline of the Montaigu school of logicians. Precisely the most representative member of this quickly vanishing school, Juan de Celaya (See above, pp.
SPANISH LOGICIANS OF MONTAIGU COLLEGE 35 Erasmus wrote back: Although I have experienced the good disposition of some French people, I am afraid that your last letter was only the expression of your own feelings toward me. I thought that by going to Paris, the capital and fortress of sophistry, you were risking being stoned to death or pierced by the horns of those blockheads ... Take good care of yourself, my most learned Luis. We want you back as soon as possible, happy and smiling. 26 In 1520, when this exchange ofletters took place, Vives had already secured for himself a central position in the most influential circles of English and Flemish Humanism.
Ibidem, p. ) SPANISH LOGICIANS OF MONTAIGU COLLEGE 33 inflict upon individual souls and the welfare of the entire Church (quanta cum jactura et animae et totius religionis haec a monachis et discuntur docenturque) . Vives' censure of Parisian education ends with a note of unexpected optimism. The corruption of learning has obviously reached bottom and the future can never be as bad as the past: Everywhere, in every nation, I see men of great intelligence, daring, free, independent, tired of being slaves, ready to shake off the yoke of this mad and violent tyranny.
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