The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584â1651)

Joseph S. Freedman

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Chapter 15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584â1651)

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Georg Stengel (1584â1651) is best known for his work as a theologian and a dramatist. But worthy of attention here are the contents of disputations over which he presided as a professor of philosophy at the University of Dillingen from 1614 to 1617. Stengelâs biography is briefly presented along with some additional documentation (mostly through the year 1617) in large part on the basis of manuscript sources. While at the University of Dillingen he presided over nine disputations containing seven distinct texts. The first of these nine disputations, On Good or Bad Syllogisms (1616) was republished in greatly expanded form (as two volumes) in 1618, 1623, 1649, and 1662. Each of the remaining disputations focus on the arts (ars), on nature (natura), or on both. And in all of these individual disputations, the arts, the effects of nature, and syllogisms all are either good or bad. In these disputations, however, that which is âbadâ might best be described as that which is not good in a number of different ways.

Here special attention is accorded to the disputation On the Good Arts in General (1616), which focuses on nature as well as on the arts. The distinction is made there between 1. the liberal arts and 2. those arts that pertain to the use of the body. But the numerous examples of individual arts presented within this disputation all can be referred to as corporeal arts. Nature is understood there to have two meanings: (1) The ordinary course of nature and (2) physical causality (physics). It is noted that physics results in knowledge (scientia) while the arts do not. But is emphasized that while the arts require nature, they also perfect nature. Discussed here â as well as in the disputations On the Good Arts in Particular and On the Bad Arts â are ways in which the arts can be misused. But in On the Good Arts in General it is also noted is that the (good) arts, with their focus on experience, induction, and singulars, connect to occult forces and can also participate in divinity. In the concluding phrase to this disputation, God (while not directly mentioned) is said to be âthe first and highest artisanâ (primus et summus artifex).

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Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Series:Â Intersections, Volume: 71

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