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Autore / Author: Fabio Zanin
Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Liceo Ginnasio Statale “G.B. Brocchi”, Bassano del Grappa
Titolo / Title: Le radici logiche e metafisiche della filosofia naturale parigina: volontà e ordine della natura nel pensiero di Buridano
Abstract: Till just few decades ago, scholars used to use the label ‘Ockhamism’ to mark a turning-point in the history of mediaeval philosophy, above all in the history of natural philosophy. That turning-point was exemplified by the once so-called ‘Buridanian school’, today known simply as ‘Parisian school of natural philosophy’, whose leading representative was for sure John Buridan. But looking carefully at some crucial points of the Picard master’s idea of ‘nature’, concerning specifically the relationship between God and secondary causes on one side, and the role played by free will, both the divine and the human one, on the other side, one will find out that Buridan’s ‘Ockhamism’ is at least questionable: Scotus’ modal logic is the conceptual framework, within which he redetermines the boundaries of natural laws, but the ‘pure ockhamist’ idea of the prevalence of the will on the intellect in God’s nature is the source of an image of the world in which voluntary behaviours and natural laws are intertwined. Therefore, Buridan’s natural philosophy results as a peculiar synthesis of two of the main divergent lines of thinking of late mediaeval philosophy.
Keywords: Modal logic; possible world; free will; natural law; secondary causes.
English title: The Logical and Metaphysical Roots of Parisian Natural Philosophy: Will and Order of Nature in Buridan’s Thought
DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-12
Volume: 5
Pagine / Pages: 395-432
Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/02/2019
Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-12
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