Buridan's Logical Works: Summulae de dialectica https://www.historyoflogic.com/buridan-logic-one.htm History of Logic from Aristotle to Gödel by Raul Corazzon | e-mail:
[email protected] Buridan's Logical Works. I. An Overview of the Summulae de dialectica INTRODUCTION: THE PLACE OF BURIDAN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 1 di 22 29/12/2018, 18:37 Buridan's Logical Works: Summulae de dialectica https://www.historyoflogic.com/buridan-logic-one.htm "In this essay, I wish to question the view that the distinction between medieval and early modern philosophy is primarily one of method. I shall argue that what has come to be known as the modern method in fact owes much to the natural philosophy of John Buridan (ca. 1295-1361), a secular arts master who taught at the University of Paris some three centuries before Descartes. Surrounded by conflicts over institutional governance and curricular disputes, Buridan emerged as a forceful voice for the independence and autonomy of teachers in the faculty of arts, arguing that philosophy as properly practiced belonged to them, the "artists artistae", not to those who taught in the so-called 'higher' faculties of theology, law, and medicine. Now such voices had been heard before at Paris, most notably from Averroist arts masters in the late 13th and early 14th-centuries.(*) Buridan is different, however, because unlike Boethius of Dacia and John of Jandun, he knew how to make the case for artistic autonomy without denigrating the theology and thereby inviting official condemnation. His trick was not to argue that there are 'two truths', one acquired and the other revealed, which might well come into conflict with each other, or that propositions whose truth has been revealed in scripture in no way qualify as scientia.