Original scientific paper
On the History of a Concept: Creatio in the Horizon of Renaissance Thought on the Example of Petrić's New Philosophy
Ljerka Schiffler
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper analyses some of the aspects of one of the basic concepts of Renaissance thought, with a particular emphasis on Frane Petrić’s philosophical opus. Trying to answer the question of the meaning of the concept creatio (productio, fabricatio, , πλάσιϛ, κτίσιϛ) in its philosophical, cosmological, theological, and literary theory senses, and, broader, in its artistic sense, Petrić considers it from the standpoints of his natural philosophy and his understanding of the universe, nature, world, and life, God and man (unomnia), of his own model of thought. Within the context of his natural philosophy, ontotheological, and gnoseological theses, Petrić extends the concepts of creation, its product, the creative, and formation, the creation of something new, to his new philosophy of poetry, language, history, and politics. He defines their distinctive features and the unique structural system of various natural and artificial phenomena (nature, language, poetry, music, life, world, society, state, history, culture). The paper also points at the sources of Petrić’s thought (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, medieval Christian tradition, Humanism) in his concurrence with the inherited corpus of thought, his evaluation and redefinition of it, as well as at the changes he made in it, and at the originality and openness of his views (e.g. the synthesis of the traditional naturalistic-organological and new panvitalistic and pancreative concepts) as expounded in his Nova de universis philosophia, Della poetica, Della retorica, Della historia, and La città felice.
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72234
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Publication date:
3.12.2001.
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