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Nikhil Bhola

Aristotelianism in the Renaissance

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Renaissance” is used as a useful short label for the period ca. 1348 to ca. 1648. But the use of the term “Aristotelianism” as applied to texts, contents and contexts of that period is problematic.[1] Some authors did indeed consider themselves as part of a “peripatetic” (i.e., Aristotelian) current or school,[2] but it would be counter intuitive to limit the application of the term “Aristotelianism” only to those authors of whom such statements are known (since it probably would exclude most renaissance commentators on Aristotle)...

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