Original scientific paper
The Strategies of Petrić's Defense of Nova de universis philosophia
Mihaela Girardi-Karšulin
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Of the three treatises that Petrić wrote in order to defend his Nova de universis philosophia (Apologia, Declarationes, and Nova de universis philosophia. Emendationes), the Emendationes were the last to be published (1993) and they have been the least analyzed so far, as far as I know. In this paper I do not wish to expound Petrić’s individual theses regardless of the context as much as the principles, the »strategy « of Petrić’s defense. In doing so, it is quite necessary to take into consideration Petrić’s Discussiones peripateticae too. The possibility of, the need for, and the defense of the Neo-Platonic (Christian) philosophical system Petrić bases on the insight into the worthlessness of Aristotle’s philosophy (in both the philosophical and the theological senses and in the sense of plagiarizing of the philosophical doctrines of the predecessors). Besides the generally known Petrić’s critical view of Aristotle, the paper intends to point specifically at what Petrić attacks in Aristotle and which arguments he uses. This will explain what is philosophy for Petrić and what are its tasks, and how he wants to expound it and defend it by refuting Aristotle’s philosophical path.
Keywords
Frane Petrić / Franciscus Patricius; Discussiones peripateticae; Emendationes; the strategies of the defense of the book Nova de universis philosophia
Hrčak ID:
66814
URI
Publication date:
7.12.2009.
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