Edelheit, Amos (2008) Human Will, Human Dignity, and Freedom: A Study of Giorgio Benigno Salviati’s Early Discussion of the Will, Urbino 1474-1482. Vivarium, 46. pp. 82-114. ISSN 0042-7543

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Th is article presents the first detailed account of Giorgio Benigno Salviati’s discussion of the will written in Urbino during the mid-1470s and the early 1480s. A Franciscan friar and a prominent professor of theology and philosophy, Salviati was a prolific author and central figure in the circles of Cardinal Bessarion in Rome and of Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence. Th is article focuses on his defense of the Scotist theory of the will. It considers its fifteenth-century context, in which both humanist and scholastic thinkers dealt with the question of the intellect and the will. While basing himself partly on authorities such as Aristotle, Augustine, and Th omas Aquinas, Salviati is clearly aware of the novelty of his theory, and its important implications for ethics and theology.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Intellect; will; humanism; scholasticism; Salviati; Ficino; 'Thomists'; 'Scotists'; libertas; arbitrium; freedom;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Philosophy
Item ID:	2370
Depositing User:	Dr. Amos Edelheit
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2011 10:20
Journal or Publication Title:	Vivarium
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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