News On the Preeminence of the Moral in Dante's Convivio
Both Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle resolutely asserted the primacy of metaphysics over morality. One of the most important turning points in Medieval philosophy is the reversal of this relationship. This inversion is one of the distinctive and novel features of Dante's thought. The way in which...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2006
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| Sumario: | Both Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle resolutely asserted the primacy of metaphysics over morality. One of the most important turning points in Medieval philosophy is the reversal of this relationship. This inversion is one of the distinctive and novel features of Dante's thought. The way in which Dante justifies this primacy is surprising and confirms the originality of his thought. His argument is twofold. On the one hand, he offers a classification of the sciences -based on Aristotelian methodological principles- in correspondence with the heavens of the Ptolemaic system. On the other hand, he resorts to the original record of basing an inferior order on his own inferiority. This structure -key to understand the always preeminent place of practical philosophy in Dantesque political thought- is explained in detail in Il Convivio. |
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