Original scientific paper
Renaissance Anti - Aristotelian Discussions and the Emergence of Modern Science
Luka Boršić
; Institut za filozofiju, ulica grada Vukovara 54, HR-10000 Zagreb
Abstract
The maln question is how modern sclence emerged. The self-perceptlon in the West, the relationship towards its own history and directedness towards its future have undergone an essentlal change when new cognitive values started formlng around new value of sclence. The new scl¬ence dld not import new - scientific - values in already existing attempts to understand the world and our position in it, but it has totally transformed this endeavour, refedining its methods and goals of research. How this colossal and allencompassing change of paradigm was possible? In thls work I am discusssing just one aspect of this quintessential event, le. Renaissance critique of Aristotle and aristotelism. I am not enterlng into specific analyses of specific problems, but rather describing which direction some more prominent Renaissance philosophers took in criticizing aristotelian-scholastic philosophy.
Keywords
Aristotle; aristotelism; modern sclence; mathematlcs; Galileo Galllei
Hrčak ID:
101216
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Publication date:
1.3.2013.
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