Science and Authority in Giacomo Zabarella
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4392220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Palmieri (0000-0003-3376-2215, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 404-427 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0073-2753 • E-ISSN: 1753-8564 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/007327530704500402 |
| OpenAlex | W2184130039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this paper, my objective is to contribute to the project of re-appraisal of Zabarella, interrupted by Schmitt’s premature death. More specifi cally, I will argue that, in his practice of natural science, Zabarella achieved a lucid separation between allegiance to reason and allegiance to Aristotle’s authority, within the constraints of the Aristotelian framework. Zabarella, in other words, fully realized that he could freely practise natural science [scientia naturalis] according to Aristotle’s mind [ad mentem Aristotelis], suspending the question of whether Aristotle’s pronouncements could be reconciled with the truth of the matter. In the remainder of this section, I will introduce Zabarella’s practice of scientia naturalis in relation to the constraint of allegiance to authority, and touch on some fundamental themes that will be developed in the course of the paper. In Section 2, I will survey Zabarella’s forms of allegiance to the authority of Aristotle in De rebus naturalibus. In Section 3, I will analyse Zabarella’s De rebus naturalibus with the help of examples that illustrate the separation between allegiance to reason and allegiance to Aristotle’s authority. In Section 4, I will draw some historiographic conclusions. What was Zabarella’s practice of scientia naturalis? By scientia naturalis, I mean natural science as it was intended by Zabarella himself. It is crucial that we read Zabarella’s defi nition of the subject of scientia naturalis in its own original language. ... in hac tempestate videntur omnes in hac sententia convenisse, quod corpus universe sumptum, quod et coelestia et inferiora omnia complectatur, quatenus
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2014 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |