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Francesco Patrizi's contribution to the emergence of modern science

he contribution of Francesco Patrizi’s Nova de universis philosophia (1591) to the emergence of modern science has received some scholarly attention so far. However, his “negative” contribution has been largely neglected. In his Discussiones peripateticae (1581) Patrizi subjects what he considers the totality of Aristotelian philosophy to sharp criticism. Questioning the Aristotelian philosophical edifice, ex post facto, appears to have been a crucial step in “clearing the ground” for the emergence of a new concept of science, something we call “modern science”: though there have always been attacks on Aristotle’s philosophy and its derivations, it was Patrizi’s lengthy and systematic destruction of the Aristotelian edifice that presented a turning point. In my talk Patrizi’s criticism of apodictic (demonstrative) science, of first principle of natural things and of substance is of special interest. I will show that some parts of Patrizi’s position were influenced by Mario Nizolio’s De veris principiis (1553). On the other hand, Patrizi’s criticism of Aristotle’s philosophical doctrines had a direct influence on his follower at La Sapienza, Jacopo Mazzoni, which can be shown by a closer analysis of his In universam Platonis et Aristotelis philosophiam praeludia (1597).

Patrizi ; Petrić ; modern science ; antiaristotelianism

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