Dante Alighieri

Dante Alghieri
by
Scott Russell










The philosophical content of the Vita nuova is minimal, a skeletal version of present-day(a) faculty psychology and a few brief references to metaphysics. unless while finding his orientation as a poet Dante was in addition engaged in the area of philosophy, and spent some cardinal months frequenting the schools of the religious orders and the disputations of the philosophers [Conv. 2.12.7]. This period must befuddle included study in the Dominican school at Santa Maria Novella, where Dante could have learned logic and born(p) philosophy, and heard Fra Remigio deGirolami (d. 1319) expound a theology based on Thomas and Aristotle [Panella; Davis (1984), 198223]. Remigio, like Dante, sympathize widely in classical literature of all sorts, and he was fond of drawing lessons in political and ethical fetch from his reading. For both Remigio and Dante, moreover, Thomas was primarily the author of the Summa contra Gentiles and the commentary on the Ethics, concerned, like Aristotle himself, to demonstrate the capacities of human reason as a means to truth.

Dante cites a dozen works of Aristotle, apparently at first hand, and shows a particularly intimate knowledge of the Ethics, generally derived, no doubt, from Thomas [Minio-Paluello].



But his Aristotelianism was nourished by other sources as well. Bruno Nardi has argued persuasively that his attitude toward the study of philosophy also owes a great deal to the more eclecticist Albert the Great [Nardi (1967), 6372; (1992), 2829; Vasoli (1995b)]. In Albert he encountered a wide-ranging encyclopedism which included original work, experimental and theoretical, in natural science, and treated Aristotelian natural philosophy and psychology in the light of a neo-Platonism derived from Arabic philosophers and such Greco-Arab sources as the Liber de Causis, as well as the Christian neo-Platonist tradition of the Pseudo-Dionysius. Albert aimed to discover Aristotles own meaning, with the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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