Article ID: CBB332877278

At the Origins of a Tenacious Narrative: Jacob Thomasius and the History of Double Truth (2019)

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This article enquires into the origins of the historiographical notion of double truth, a prominent and controversial category in the modern study of medieval philosophy. I believe that these origins are to be found in a short text by Jacob Thomasius from 1663, entitled De duplici & contradictoria veritate, which stands as a very early and highly original example of a history of double truth. I propose a detailed analysis of this document in order to shed light on the mechanisms that transformed duplex veritas from a keyword in Thomasius’s Protestant milieu into a historiographical category. As I show, the De duplici & contradictoria veritate provides a historical legitimation of Thomasius’s own brand of Lutheran Aristotelianism. It does so in a highly ambiguous fashion, namely by bringing together the Lutheran theologian and proponent of double truth Daniel Hofmann with anonymous medieval “Averroists”. I venture an explanation for Thomasius’s line of action by uncovering two of his implicit sources.

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Authors & Contributors
Lenzi, Massimiliano
Peter B. Thompson
Goldman, Loren
Joseph Bergin
Hladký, Vojtech
Qizhi, Yanan
Concepts
Aristotelianism
Philosophy and religion
Philosophy
Lutherans and Lutheranism
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
15th century
18th century
Places
Hellenistic world
Byzantium
Spain
Italy
Germany
Europe
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