Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance reformer of Aristotelianism : a study of his Exotericae Exercitationes / by Kuni Sakamoto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction; Chapter 1 Creation, the Trinity, and Prisca theologia; 1 Introduction; 2 God as Efficient Cause; 3 Creatio ex nihilo; 4 The Trinity; 5 Prisca theologia; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 2 Against the World-Soul; 1 Introduction; 2 God's Triune Power; 3 The Soul and Heat; 4 Form, the Soul, and the Platonic Idea; 5 Platonic Sublunary God and Aristotelian Nature; 6 The Order and Unity of the World; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Best Possible World; 1 Introduction; 2 The Number of Species; 3 The Possibility of a Better World; 4 Humans in the Hierarchy of Being.

5 The Completeness of the World6 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Void and Place; 1 Introduction; 2 Cardano, Averroes, and "Recent Philosophers"; 3 The Double Performance of Form; 4 Place as Void; 5 Against Aristotle and Scotus; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 5 Angels and Intelligences; 1 Introduction; 2 Cardano and the Naturalists; 3 The Nature and Attributes of Intelligences; 4 Celestial Movements and the Imitation of God; 5 Cognition of Intelligences; 6 Angelic Motion, Prime Matter, and the Value of Learning; 7 On Copernicus and Melanchthon; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 6 Generation and Form; 1 Introduction.

2 Doctrinal Background3 Criticism of Fernel; 4 Spontaneous Generation; 5 Generation from Seeds; 6 Human Generation; 7 The Formative and Informative Souls; 8 Plastic Power; 9 The Soul as the Divine Fifth Essence; 10 Conclusion; Chapter 7 Mixture; 1 Introduction; 2 Criticism of Avicenna; 3 A New Definition of Mixture; 4 Objections of Basson and Sennert; 5 Form as Mixture; 6 Creation of Mixtures; 7 Scaliger and the Franciscan Tradition; 8 Conclusion; General Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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