By Michael Engel
In this e-book, Michael Engel areas Del Medigo's philosophical paintings and his rules in regards to the human mind in the context of the broader Aristotelian culture. delivering an in depth account of the original mix of Hebrew, Islamic, Latin and Greek traditions that encouraged the Two Investigations, Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism offers a major contribution to our realizing of Renaissance Aristotelianisms and scholasticisms. particularly, via his protection of the Muslim thinker Averroes' hotly debated interpretation of the De anima and his rejection of the average Latin Aristotelianism championed via the Christian Thomas Aquinas, Engel strains how Del Medigo's paintings at the human mind contributed to the improvement of an immense Aristotelian controversy.
Investigating the ways that multicultural Aristotelian resources contributed to his personal idea of a united human mind, Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism demonstrates the numerous influence made via this Jewish thinker at the heritage of the Aristotelian tradition.
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