The book reproduces 5 lectures by the author related with the Conimbricense philosophy that was received in 17th-century China. It presents the way the Coimbra commentary reads Aristotle, shows Aristotle’s likely intellectual image, discusses the pre-history of the cosmological revolution of the seventeenth-century, and proposes the best angle from which to read the Coimbra Jesuit Course as a whole. A final lecture seeks to put the object of Dialectics in its proper Jesuit perspective and an Appendix reproduces the state of the art concerning The Transmission of Western Natural Philosophy in Ming and Qing Dynasties).
Mário Santiago de Carvalho is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra, scientific coordinator of U.R&D, “Institute for Philosophical Studies” (IEF), director of the “Conimbricenses.org”, editorial co-responsible for the IUC series, “Curso Conimbricense”, and author of more of two hundred publications (monographs, articles, etc.) in several languages.
Contents
- Introduction
- Lecture 1: Mind the matter. How does the “Conimbricense Jesuit Course” read Aristotle?
- Lecture 2: Teaching Physics via Hypertext
- Lecture 3: Farewell to the Closed World in three steps? Not so fast! Two worlds before Galileo’s watershed
- Lecture 4: An Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline
- Lecture 5: We humans reason, therefore we are
- Appendix: “Conimbricense Jesuit Physics” and its manuscript’s literary context
- Bibliography
- Index