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Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Aristotelian Psychology

Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Aristotelian Psychology Lorenzo Valla’s Critique of Aristotelian Psychology LODI NAUTA Introduction The question how humanism relates to scholasticism is an highly com- plex one which admits of no simple answer. Today no scholar would consider them as monolithic and homogeneous movements. Our answer will vary with the subject under consideration (a particular discipline, schooling and the curriculum, methodology, attitude towards the ancients, and so forth), and is dependent on the region we look at as well as the period within the large stretch of time between, let us say, 1350 and 1600. Nevertheless some basic Weberian ideal positions may be distin- guished. One may stress with P. O. Kristeller that the two lived for a long time aside each other, catered for di V erent interests and motives, and functioned at di V erent institutional levels. Humanism was not a philo- sophical movement but a literary one, focusing on grammar and rhetoric. According to this well-known line of interpretation, humanism should not be seen as “the new philosophy of the Renaissance, which arose in oppo- sition to scholasticism, the old philosophy of the Middle Ages”, for “the Italian humanists on the whole were neither good nor bad philosophers, but no http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vivarium Brill

Lorenzo Valla's Critique of Aristotelian Psychology

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Vivarium , Volume 41 (1): 120 – Jan 1, 2003
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Lorenzo Valla’s Critique of Aristotelian Psychology LODI NAUTA Introduction The question how humanism relates to scholasticism is an highly com- plex one which admits of no simple answer. Today no scholar would consider them as monolithic and homogeneous movements. Our answer will vary with the subject under consideration (a particular discipline, schooling and the curriculum, methodology, attitude towards the ancients, and so forth), and is dependent on the region we look at as well as the period within the large stretch of time between, let us say, 1350 and 1600. Nevertheless some basic Weberian ideal positions may be distin- guished. One may stress with P. O. Kristeller that the two lived for a long time aside each other, catered for di V erent interests and motives, and functioned at di V erent institutional levels. Humanism was not a philo- sophical movement but a literary one, focusing on grammar and rhetoric. According to this well-known line of interpretation, humanism should not be seen as “the new philosophy of the Renaissance, which arose in oppo- sition to scholasticism, the old philosophy of the Middle Ages”, for “the Italian humanists on the whole were neither good nor bad philosophers, but no

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