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Aristotelianism in the 17th century

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List of works

  • Arriaga, R. (1632) Cursus philosophicus (Philosophy course).

    (A complete philosophy course by a Jesuit professor.)

  • Barbay, P. (1675) Commentarius in Aristotelis logicam (Commentary on Aristotle’s Logic), Paris.

    (The first portion of the philosophy course by a professor at the University of Paris. Barbay’s texts were recommended by both Jesuits and Oratorians.)

  • Barbay, P. (1675b) Commentarius in Aristotelis metaphysicam (Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics), Paris.

    (The third portion of Barbay’s course.)

  • Barbay, P. (1676) Commentarius in Aristotelis moralem (Commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics), Paris.

    (The fourth portion of Barbay’s course.)

  • Barbay, P. (1676b) Commentarius in Aristotelis physicam (Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics), 2nd edn, Paris.

    (The second portion of Barbay’s course.)

  • Bossu, R. le (1674) Parallele des principes de la physique d’Aristote, et de celle de René Des Cartes (Parallel between the Principles of Physics of Aristotle and Descartes), Paris.

    (An attempt to reconcile the philosophies of Aristotle and Descartes.)

  • Bouju, T. (1614) Corps de toute la Philosophie (The whole of philosophy), Paris.

    (An early French-language complete philosophy course.)

  • Casimir de Toulouse (1674) Atomi peripateticae, sive tum veterum tum recentiorum atomistarum placita ad neotericae scholae methodum redacta, (Peripatetic atomism…), Toulouse.

    (An attempt to reconcile atomism and Aristotelianism.)

  • Ceriziers, R. de (1643) Le philosophe français (The French philosopher), Paris.

    (A complete French-language philosophy course by a Jesuit.)

  • Chevreul, J. du (1623) Sphaera (The Sphere), Paris.

    (A standard mathematics textbook teaching the rudiments of scholastic astronomy but taking Galileo’s observations into account.)

  • Clavius, C. (1611–12) Opera mathematica (Mathematical works), Rome.

    (The mathematical texts of the Collegio Romano Jesuit professor most responsible for the training of Jesuits who went on to teach in the colleges of the order.)

  • Conimbricenses (Jesuits of the University of Coimbra) (1592) Commentarii in octo libros physicorum Aristotelis (Commentaries on the eight books of Aristotle’s Physics), Coimbra.

    (The commentary of the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra dealing with bodies, motion, and their metaphysical foundations, that is, the beginning of the physics course.)

  • Conimbricenses (Jesuits of the University of Coimbra) (1598) Commentarii in tres libros de anima (Commentaries on the three books on the soul), Coimbra.

    (The commentary of the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra dealing with animate creatures, usually the end of the physics course.)

  • Conimbricenses (Jesuits of the University of Coimbra) (1606) Commentarii in universam dialecticam Aristotelis (Commentaries on the whole of Aristotle’s logic), Coimbra.

    (The logic textbook of the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra.)

  • Crassot, J. (1618) Physica (Physics), Paris.

    (A physics textbook from a professor at the University of Paris.)

  • Daniel, G. (1690) Voyage du monde de Descartes, Paris; trans. as A Voyage to the World of Cartesius, London, 1692.

    (A satire of Cartesian philosophy by a Jesuit.)

  • Daniel, G. (1693) Nouvelles difficultés proposées par un péripatéticien à l’auteur du ‘Voyage du monde de Descartes’ (New difficulties proposed by a peripatetic to the author of ‘Voyage to the World of Descartes’), Paris. (The continuation of Daniel’s satire of Cartesian philosophy.)

  • Duhamel, J. (1692) Reflexions critiques sur le système cartesien de la philosophie de mr. Régis (Critical reflections on the Cartesian system of philosophy of Mr Régis), Paris.

    (A critical examination of the Cartesian textbook of Pierre-Sylvain Régis by a professor at the University of Paris.)

  • Duhamel, J. (1705) Philosophia universalis sive commentarius in universam Aristotelis philosophiam ad usum scholarum comparatam (The whole of philosophy…), Paris.

    (The philosophy course of Duhamel, a professor at the University of Paris, containing many critical references to Descartes’ philosophy, including a listing of condemnations by various authorities.)

  • Duhamel, J.-B. (1677) Philosophia vetus et nova (Philosophy old and new).

    (An attempt to reconcile old (mostly Aristotelian) and new (mostly Cartesian and Gassendist) philosophies.)

  • Dupleix, S. (1603a) La logique ou art de discourir et raisonner (Logic…), Paris: Fayard, 1984.

    (The first portion of Dupleix’s course.)

  • Dupleix, S. (1603b) La physique (Physics), Paris: Fayard, 1990.

    (The second portion of Dupleix’s course.)

  • Dupleix, S. (1610a) La métaphysique (Metaphysics), Paris: Fayard, 1992.

    (The third portion of Dupleix’s course.)

  • Dupleix, S. (1610b) L’ethique ou philosophie morale (Ethics), Paris: Fayard, 1994.

    (The fourth portion of Dupleix’s course.)

  • Dupleix, S. (1627) Corps de philosophie (Collection of philosophy), Geneva.

    (A popular complete French-language philosophy course, including the separately published Logic, Physics, Metaphysics and Ethics.)

  • Eustachius a Sancto Paulo (Asseline) (1609) Summa philosophica quadripartita de rebus dialecticis, moralibus, physicis, et metaphysicis (Sum of philosophy in four parts…), Paris.

    (A popular Latin-language complete philosophy course, which Descartes wanted to publish together with his philosophy to enable readers to contrast the two.)

  • Fabri, H. (1666) De plantis et de generatione animalium, de homine (On plants and on the generation of animals, on man), Lyons.

    (A physics text by a late seventeenth-century French Jesuit with atomist tendencies.)

  • Frassen, C. (1686) Philosophia Academica (Academic philosophy), 3rd edn.

    (A philosophy textbook that defends Scotist school doctrines.)

  • Frey, J.-C. (1628) Cribrum philosophorum qui Aristotelem superiore & hac aetate oppugnarunt (The sieve of the philosophers…), Paris.

    (An attack on anti-Aristotelians by a professor at the University of Paris.)

  • Frey, J.-C. (1633) Universae philosophiae compendium (Compendium of the whole of philosophy), Paris.

    (The philosophy course by Frey, professor at the University of Paris.)

  • Gaultruche, P. (1665) Philosophiae ac mathematicae totius clara, brevis, et accurata institutio (Instruction on all of philosophy and mathematics…), Caen, 5 vols.

    (The philosophy and mathematics courses by a Jesuit professor at Clermont, the main Jesuit college in Paris.)

  • Goclenius, R. (1613) Lexicon Philosophicum (Philosophical dictionary), Frankfurt.

    (A comprehensive dictionary of late scholastic philosophical terms.)

  • Goudin, A. (1668) Philosophie suivant les principes de Saint Thomas (Philosophy following the Principles of Saint Thomas), trans. T. Bourard, Paris, 1864.

    (A philosophy textbook that defends Thomist school doctrines.)

  • Grange, J.-B. de la (1682) Les principes de la philosophie contre les nouveaux philosophes, Descartes, Rohault, Regius, Gassendi, le P. Maignan, etc. (The principles of philosophy against the new philosophers…).

    (A critique of Cartesian and other new philosophies by an Oratorian.)

  • Huet, P.D. (1689) Censura philosophiae cartesianae (Judgment on Cartesian philosophy), Paris.

    (A critique of Cartesian philosophies by Huet, who was a Cartesian in his youth.)

  • Huet, P.D. [M.G. de L’A.] (1692) Nouveaux mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du cartésianisme (New memoirs for the history of Cartesianism).

    (A satire of Cartesian philosophy, anonymously by Huet.)

  • Maignan, E. (1653) Cursus philosophicus (Philosophical course), Toulouse.

    (A philosophy course by a Minim, which was thought too much a departure from Aristotelianism by some.)

  • Marandé, L. (1642) Abrégé curieux de toute la philosophie (Curious summary of all of philosophy), Paris.

    (A summary of what is generally contained in philosophy courses, including a section on theology.)

  • Moulin, P. du (1644) Philosophie mise en francois et divisee en trois parties, scavoir, elements de la logique, la physique ou science naturelle, l’ethyque ou science morale (Philosophy translated into French…).

    (A philosophy course, minus metaphysics, by a French Protestant.)

  • Pourchot, E. (1695) Institutio philosophica (Philosophical instruction), Paris.

    (The first philosophy course by a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris who was sympathetic to Cartesianism.)

  • Raconis, C.F.d’A. de (1617) Summa totius philosophiae (Sum of all philosophy), Paris, 1651.

    (A complete philosophy course by a professor at the University of Paris.)

  • Sennert, D. (1618) Epitome naturalis scientiae, Wittenberg; trans. as Thirteen books of natural philosophy, London, 1659.

    (A physics textbook by a physician who attempts to reconcile Aristotelianism and atomism.)

  • Toletus, F. (1572) Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in universam Aristotelis logicam (Commentary on the totality of logic), Venice.

    (The logic text of a Jesuit Collegio Romano professor.)

  • Toletus, F. (1574) Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in tres libros Aristotelis de amina (Commentary on the three books on the soul), Venice.

    (The commentary of a Jesuit Collegio Romano professor dealing with animate creatures, usually the end of the physics course.)

  • Toletus, F. (1589) Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in octo libros de physica auscultatione (Commentary on the physics), Venice.

    (First edition published in 1573, this is the commentary of a Jesuit Collegio Romano professor dealing with the beginnings of the physics course.)

  • Vincent, J. (1660) Cursus philosophicus (Philosophy course), Toulouse.

    (A complete Philosophy course by a Jesuit professor.)

  • Vincent, J. (1677) Discussio peripatetica in qua philosophiae cartesianae principia (Peripatetic discussion regarding the principles of Cartesian philosophy), Toulouse.

    (A critical examination of Cartesian philosophy by a Jesuit.)

References and further reading

  • Blair, A. (1993) ‘The Teaching of Natural Philosophy in Early Seventeenth-Century Paris: The Case of Jean-Cecile Frey’, History of Universities 1993: 95–158.

    (Gives an account of the life and works of a seventeenth-century professor of philosophy.)

  • Bouillier, F. (1868) Histoire de la Philosophie cartésienne (History of Cartesian philosophy), 2 vols.

    (Concerns the reception of Cartesianism, pro and con, including accounts of the ‘persecution’ of Cartesianism by scholastics and Jesuits.)

  • Brockliss, L.W.B. (1987) French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    (Details the curriculum in French colleges and universities in the humanities, philosophy, theology, law and medicine.)

  • Dear, P. (1987) Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

    (Includes an account of the scholastic, mostly Augustinian sources used by Descartes’ mentor, Marin Mersenne, in his advocacy of mathematical physics.)

  • Des Chene, D. (1995) Physiologia: Philosophy of Nature in Descartes and the Aristotelians, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

    (Compares late scholastics and Descartes on such topics as motion, principles of change, the essence of matter, mechanism and final cause.)

  • Gilson, E. (1976) Études sur le rôle de la pensée médiévale dans la formation du système cartésien (Studies on the role of medieval thought in the formation of the Cartesian system), 2nd edn, Paris: Vrin.

    (Consists of a collection of essays which trace the roots of Cartesianism in late scholasticism.)

  • Lohr, C. (1988) Latin Aristotle Commentaries, II: Renaissance Authors, Florence: Olschki, 1995.

    (The most complete bibliography of Latin language late-scholastic texts, includes bibliographic and biographic references to Arriaga, Burgersdijk, Conimbricenses, Crassot, Eustachius, Frey, Goclenius, Keckermann, de Raconis, Sennert and Toletus, among others.)

  • Reif, P. (1962) Natural Philosophy in Some Early Seventeenth Century Scholastic Textbooks, unpublished dissertation, Saint Louis University.

    (Still the only comparative full-scale study of the contents of seventeenth century textbooks.)

  • Sortais, G. (1924) Histoire de la Philosophie moderne depuis Bacon jusqu’à Leibniz (History of modern philosophy from Bacon to Leibniz), Paris: Beauchesne.

    (Imparts a history of seventeenth century philosophy that does not neglect minor figures, including scholastics.)

  • Verbeek, T. (1992) Descartes and the Dutch, Carbondale, IL: University of Southern Illinois Press.

    (Concerns the reception of Cartesianism at Utrecht and Leiden.)

  • Wallace, W. (1984) Galileo and His Sources, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    (Includes an account of the natural philosophy, logic, and mathematics taught at the Collegio Romano, the Jesuits’ main college in Rome.)

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