Book ID: CBB001250502

Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life, and the Soul (2011)

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Hirai, Hiro (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xiii + 227 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

From Publisher Inspired by the ideas contained in the newly recovered ancient sources, Renaissance humanists questioned the traditional teachings of universities. Humanistically trained physicians, called medical humanists, were particularly active in the field of natural philosophy, where alternative approaches were launched and tested. Their intellectual outcome contributed to the reorientation of philosophy toward natural questions, which were to become crucial in the seventeenth century. This volume explores six medical humanists of diverse geographical and confessional origins (Leoniceno, Fernel, Schegk, Gemma, Liceti and Sennert) and their debates on matter, life and the soul. The study of these debates sheds new light on the contributions of humanist culture to the evolution of early modern natural philosophy

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Authors & Contributors
Hirai, Hiro
Klein, Joel A.
Zanier, Giancarlo
Vons, Jacqueline
Rudolph, Enno
Perrone Compagni, Vittoria
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Medicine
Humanism
Philosophy
Soul (philosophy)
Psychology
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
15th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
Europe
Germany
France
Italy
Toulouse (France)
England
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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