Aristotle Theologized: the Importance of Giles of Rome’s Sententia de bona fortuna to Late Medieval and Renaissance Peripatetism

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Aristotle Theologized: the Importance of Giles of Rome’s Sententia de bona fortuna to Late Medieval and Renaissance Peripatetism

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Cordonier, Valérie CNRS, UMR7219, Paris / Université de Fribourg, Suisse

2020

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Marienza Benedetto, Francesco Marrone, Pasquale Porro (ed.), Doctor Fundatissimus. Giles of Rome: His Thought and Influence. - Turnhout, Brepols, 2020. - 2020, vol. Quaestio: The Yearbook of the History of Metaphysics, 20 (2020), p. 137-157

Medieval Aristotelian tradition

"nature" (different meanings of-)

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda

God's actions toward the creatures

Radicalisation of some theological views

Tradition aristotélicienne au Moyen âge

"Nature" (différents sens de-)

Éthique à Nicomaque d'Aristote

Métaphysique Lambda d'Aristote

Actions de Dieu envers les créatures

Radicalisation de certaines conceptions théologiques

English When studying the scholastic Aristotelian tradition in the Late Middle Ages or in Early Modernity, the modern scholar realizes that in these periods, Aristotle is sometimes something else, or something more than what he means to modern readers. This paper highlights the decisive role played in the longer course of Aristotelian tradition by Giles of Rome’ Sententia de bona fortuna, a work that constitutes a telling example of the radical transformations imposed by Latin thinkers on the Aristotelian philosophical system. The impact of this commentary was decisive for the subsequent discussions on fortune, contingency and “divine government” – that is, the issue of how God, as the First Principle of all beings, leads them all to their ends or their ultimate “good”. In so doing, the article shows that Giles’ reading of the (Pseudo-)Aristotelian treatise called Liber de bona fortuna marked the birth of a coherent ‘natural theology’ in the Latin West.

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Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines

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Département de Philosophie

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English

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Philosophy, psychology

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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/325606

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