Spoleto 2011, pp. 320.

The development of Aristotelian psychology in the Latin West is one of the most important results of the thirteenth century. It represents a substantially new event, since Antiaristotelianism was the predominant trend of the preceding century. The aim of the present study is to show how, in the context of medieval Christianity, an Aristotelian philosophy of the soul could effectively develop, with one of its main assumptions being the representation of the soul as ‘form and substance’. This representation and its role in the process of the philosophical acculturation of the Latin West are here reconstructed, with close attention paid to archaeological phenomenon of Platonization and maintaining that Christian thought exploited Platonic grids to impose its philosophical views, even in the context of medieval Aristotelianism.

Contents:
PREFAZIONE - INTRODUZIONE, Forma o sostanza? Alexander Nequam e la critica medievale della teoria dell’anima-forma – I. Perfezione e sostanza: John Blund e la costituzione avicenniana della psicologia peripatetica latina – II. Dalla perfezione alla forma: filosofia e teologia nello sviluppo del modello avicenniano – III. Dalla sostanza alla sussistenza: Alberto Magno critico di Avicenna – IV. Forma per se subsistens: Tommaso d’Aquino e lo statuto liminare dell’anima - CONCLUSIONI - BIBLIOGRAFIA - INDICI


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