Revisiting the Exegetical Tradition of Galen's Prologue to the Art of Medicine before Leoniceno
Logic, Teaching, and Didactics in Pietro Torrigiano's Plusquam commentum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21451377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Okihito Utamura (0000-0002-3813-5280, Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 352-375 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Philosophy of Logic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5340 • E-ISSN: 1464-5149 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01445340.2020.1799622 |
| OpenAlex | W3095628831 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper investigates the pre-history of Nicolò Leoniceno's De tribus doctrinis ordinatis secundum Galeni sententiam (1508). It has been often maintained that Leoniceno's treatise broke with scholastic interpretations of Galen's prologue to the Art of Medicine by turning away from interpretations in terms of scientific method towards a didactic interpretation. This paper questions this common view by offering an in-depth analysis of a major, early-14th-century interpretation of Galen's prologue, Pietro Torrigiano's Plusquam commentum. I argue that Torrigiano read Galen's prologue as a didactic text, interpreting it in terms of demonstrative syllogisms, because he assumed that logic, and demonstrative syllogisms, have a didactic function. This suggests that this common understanding of Leoniceno's treatise is incorrect: Leoniceno did not break with scholastic interpretations by turning away from scientific method towards didactics, but by replacing previous didactic interpretations of Galen's prologue in terms of scholastic logic with an alternative didactic interpretation
Art · Demonstrative · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Prologue · Syllogism · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Medicine Studies · Philosophy
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