Original scientific paper
The philosophical educational institution and the manuscripts in the Franciscan monastery of our Lady of healing in Split, 1748-1826
Vicko Kapitanović
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The philosophical educational institution at Dobro, Split, intermittently active from 1748 to 1826, was one of the several provincial three-year philosophical educational institutions at Croatian monasteries at the time, primarily intended to prepare students for theology studies as a precondition for their ordainment. The institution was created for students who could not enrol in other institutions due to filled quotas. The students who completed the philosophical studies continued to study at theological institutions, and after at least three-and-a-half further years of theological studies and a completed public examination they were bestowed the title of preacher.
On the basis of archives, library holdings, textbooks, and manuscripts, the author attempts to clarify the work of both the teachers and the students at the institution, to reveal the authors of philosophical textbook manuscripts and determine the quality of the studies.
Attempting to reveal the authors of philosophical manuscripts preserved at the library, the author of the paper believes one of them, possibly the oldest, belonged to the circle of the famous Franciscan monk Jeronim Filipović. He also
confirms the attribution of two versions to the Slavonic Franciscan Benedikt Zebić. The author separately analyses the manuscript entitled Cursus philosophicus, naming Jeronim Filipović as the author, and tries to figure out its influence on the somewhat younger contemporary poet and philosophical author father Andrija Kačić Miošić. The author firmly believes that Ivan Budimir was the author of one of the manuscripts.
Although neither the teachers nor the students have written any truly valuable philosophical works, the research shows that the educational institution, despite crises and political turmoil, managed to follow the trends of the philosophical thought of the period and achieved its aim, providing a decent philosophical education.
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Publication date:
3.12.2001.
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