Renaissance Aristotelians

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intellectual tradition philosophical movement scholarly community

Renaissance Aristotelians were early modern European philosophers and scholars who revived, interpreted, and taught Aristotle’s works—often through medieval and ancient commentaries—within universities and humanist circles.

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Label	Occurrences
Renaissance Aristotelianism	1
Renaissance Aristotelians canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual tradition ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ scholarly community ⓘ
aimedTo	defend Aristotelian philosophy in university teaching ⓘ reconcile Aristotle with Christian doctrine ⓘ update Aristotelianism with new philological methods ⓘ
centralFigure	Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	commentary tradition ⓘ curricular standardization ⓘ systematic disputation ⓘ use of humanist philology ⓘ use of scholastic methods ⓘ
contextOf	Reformation and Counter-Reformation debates ⓘ rise of early modern science ⓘ transition from medieval to early modern philosophy ⓘ
debated	eternity of the world ⓘ immortality of the soul ⓘ nature of motion ⓘ relationship between faith and reason ⓘ status of substantial forms ⓘ structure of the heavens ⓘ unity of the intellect ⓘ
engagedWith	Reformation theologians ⓘ Renaissance Averroists NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance Platonists NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance humanists ⓘ early modern mathematicians ⓘ early modern physicians ⓘ
followedBy	Cartesianism NERFINISHED ⓘ early modern anti-Aristotelianism ⓘ mechanical philosophy ⓘ
hadNotableMember	Agostino Nifo NERFINISHED ⓘ Cesare Cremonini NERFINISHED ⓘ Francesco Piccolomini NERFINISHED ⓘ Francisco Suárez NERFINISHED ⓘ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola NERFINISHED ⓘ Giovanni de’ Celaya NERFINISHED ⓘ Giulio Pace NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacopo Zabarella NERFINISHED ⓘ John Case NERFINISHED ⓘ Pedro da Fonseca NERFINISHED ⓘ Pietro Pomponazzi NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGeographicScope	England NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Iberian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTimePeriod	15th century ⓘ 16th century ⓘ Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ early 17th century ⓘ
influenced	Jesuit education ⓘ Reformation-era scholasticism ⓘ early modern ethics ⓘ early modern metaphysics ⓘ early modern natural philosophy ⓘ university curricula in early modern Europe ⓘ
influencedBy	Averroism NERFINISHED ⓘ Greek philology ⓘ Scotism NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomism NERFINISHED ⓘ humanism ⓘ medieval scholasticism ⓘ
precededBy	medieval Aristotelianism ⓘ
produced	commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ disputations ⓘ lectures ⓘ paraphrases of Aristotelian works ⓘ textbooks ⓘ
relatedTo	Jesuit scholasticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance Averroism NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance Platonism NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ scholastic Aristotelianism ⓘ
studied	Aristotle’s ethics NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle’s logical works ⓘ Aristotle’s metaphysics NERFINISHED ⓘ Aristotle’s natural philosophy ⓘ Aristotle’s politics NERFINISHED ⓘ
taughtAt	European universities ⓘ Italian universities ⓘ University of Bologna NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Padua NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
taughtIn	arts faculties ⓘ medical faculties ⓘ theology faculties ⓘ
usedLanguage	Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ vernacular European languages ⓘ
usedSource	Arabic commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ

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Simplicius of Cilicia → influenced → Renaissance Aristotelians ⓘ

Latin Averroists → influenced → Renaissance Aristotelians ⓘ

this entity surface form: Renaissance Aristotelianism