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Juliusz Domański

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Pages:: 78–107

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004688568_005

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Domański turns to Petrarch’s humanist criticism of the ethics of Aristotle, as providing principles without means for practice. For Petrarch, it is better to will the good than to know. He has scorn for “philosophers of the chair”, who teach theory but do not live in accordance with their ideas, while he praises “pagan saints” like Socrates, Cicero and Virgil. Domański next examines the revival of interest in ancient doxographies and biographies of the philosophers in pseudo-Burleyand Traversari. This interest is developed by Bruni, Manetti, Ficino, and Guarini. In their works, the atopia of the ancient philosophers, still too controversial for Traversari, is foregrounded, the claim that philosophy culminates in an exemplary form of life restored, and (in Manetti) on these bases, the exhortative writings of Epictetus elevated above the theoretical position of Aristotle. Finally, Domański turns to Erasmus’ philosophia Christi, in whom the ancient goal of philosophy, to live a good life, is completely accepted as the achievement of ancient pagans, as well Christian saints.

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Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

With a Foreword by Pierre Hadot

Series: Philosophy as a Way of Life, Volume: 6

Cover Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004688568

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Print Publication Date:: 08 Jul 2024

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