The Aristotelian Background of Diego de Avendano’s Moral and Legal Thought
The article shows the existence of links in Diego de Avendaño S.J.'s (1594-1688) thought between probabilism and Aristotelian treatment of practical knowledge and prudence. Probabilistic thought of Avendaño can be described only through the analysis of long passages taken from the six monumenta...
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I28-R145-7384_oai2025-11-17 Hofmeister Pich , Roberto 2017-09-01 The article shows the existence of links in Diego de Avendaño S.J.'s (1594-1688) thought between probabilism and Aristotelian treatment of practical knowledge and prudence. Probabilistic thought of Avendaño can be described only through the analysis of long passages taken from the six monumental volumes of his Auctarium indicum (Amberes, 1668-1686). Although strictly speaking Avendaño's political ideas are not those of an Aristotelian thinker, he tries to rely on Aristotle to support his thesis according to which the practical certainty sufficient for a right moral conscience can be the merely probable certainty - after all, the probable certainty is all that prudence can offer to the moral (and political) agent. Avendaño considers that his probabilism is consistent with a prudential treatment of practical knowledge, which it is also something that Avendaño relates to the sphere of law. One of the results of this connection between a probabilistic-prudential doctrine of moral rectitude and the demand for legal justice was the creation, not of a tradition of jurisprudence in legal sentences, but of a legal hermeneutic oriented by the community and by individual cases: in other words, the much criticized legal casuistry of the Jesuits. El artículo muestra la existencia de vínculos, en el pensamiento de Diego de Avendaño S.J. (1594-1688), entre el probabilismo y el tratamiento aristotélico del conocimiento práctico y de la prudencia. El pensamiento probabilista de Avendaño puede ser descripto solo mediante el análisis de largos pasajes tomados de los seis monumentales volúmenes de su Auctarium indicum (Amberes, 1668-1686). Aunque en sentido estricto las ideas políticas de Avendaño no son las de un pensador aristotélico, intenta apoyarse en Aristóteles para sostener su tesis según la cual la certeza práctica suficiente para la recta consciencia moral puede ser la certeza meramente probable -en fin de cuentas, la certeza probable es todo lo que la prudencia puede ofrecer al agente moral (y político)-. Avendaño considera que su probabilismo es coherente con un tratamiento prudencial del conocimiento práctico, y eso, además, es algo que Avendaño relaciona con la esfera de la ley. Uno de los resultados de esa conexión entre una doctrina probabilista-prudencial de la rectitud moral y la exigencia de justicia legal fue la creación, no de una tradición de jurisprudencia en sentencias jurídicas, sino de una hermenéutica legal orientada por la comunidad y por los casos individuales: en otras palabras, la muy criticada casuística legal de los jesuitas. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7384 eng Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7384/6638 Patristica et Mediævalia; Vol. 38 (2017); 53-88 2683-9636 Diego de Avendaño aristotelismo prudencia probabilismo casuística legal Diego de Avendaño Aristotle Prudence Probabilism Legal Casuistry The Aristotelian Background of Diego de Avendano’s Moral and Legal Thought info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=patris&d=7384_oai |
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The article shows the existence of links in Diego de Avendaño S.J.'s (1594-1688) thought between probabilism and Aristotelian treatment of practical knowledge and prudence. Probabilistic thought of Avendaño can be described only through the analysis of long passages taken from the six monumental volumes of his Auctarium indicum (Amberes, 1668-1686). Although strictly speaking Avendaño's political ideas are not those of an Aristotelian thinker, he tries to rely on Aristotle to support his thesis according to which the practical certainty sufficient for a right moral conscience can be the merely probable certainty - after all, the probable certainty is all that prudence can offer to the moral (and political) agent. Avendaño considers that his probabilism is consistent with a prudential treatment of practical knowledge, which it is also something that Avendaño relates to the sphere of law. One of the results of this connection between a probabilistic-prudential doctrine of moral rectitude and the demand for legal justice was the creation, not of a tradition of jurisprudence in legal sentences, but of a legal hermeneutic oriented by the community and by individual cases: in other words, the much criticized legal casuistry of the Jesuits. |
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