Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism

by Michael Engel

Book Overview

Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance. His Two Investigations on the Nature of the Human Soul uses Aristotle's De anima to theorize on two of the most discussed and most controversial philosophical debates of the Renaissance: the nature of human intellect and the obtaining of immortality through intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474268498
• ISBN13: 9781474268493
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"