Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition. The Case of Agostino Nifo, 2013
By: Leen Spruit
Title Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition. The Case of Agostino Nifo
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Pages 125–144
Categories Agostino Nifo
Author(s) Leen Spruit
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The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences, 2013
By: Nicholas Holland
Title The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Pages 99–124
Categories Agostino Nifo, Cosmology
Author(s) Nicholas Holland
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This chapter examines Agostino Nifo’s analysis of the nature of celestial influence on the sublunary world in his commentary on Averroes’s Destructio destructionum (Tahāfut al-Tahāfut). First it explores how Nifo derives from sources contained in Averroes’s work and through the mediation of Albertus Magnus and other Latin philosophers, the idea that the heavenly bodies may cause ‘spiritual’ or ‘intentional’ as well as physical or corporeal change in the sublunary world. In his commentary (1497) on the fourteenth dispute of the Destructio, Nifo brings this dualist model of celestial influence together with material drawn from Neoplatonic, Hermetic and astrological sources in order to explain the principles of prophecy, alchemy, demonology and magnetism. Where Averroes had associated celestial influence with a form of unintentional causality, Nifo’s account suggests that celestial bodies follow patterns of intentional activity. In this way, celestial bodies are seen as a cause of change in the sublunary world, in general, and on man, in particular. The closing section contrasts Nifo’s method of synthesising conflicting philosophical positions and his defense of astrology with the work of his contemporary and sometime associate Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

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Haec igitur est nostra lex. Teologia e filosofia nel commento di Agostino Nifo alla Destructio destructionum di Averroè, 2013
By: Guido Giglioni
Title Haec igitur est nostra lex. Teologia e filosofia nel commento di Agostino Nifo alla Destructio destructionum di Averroè
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2013
Published in L'averroismo in età moderna (1400–1700)
Pages 125–144
Categories Theology, Agostino Nifo, al-Ġazālī, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Guido Giglioni
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L’averroismo in età moderna (1400-1700), 2013
By: Giovanni Licata (Ed.)
Title L’averroismo in età moderna (1400-1700)
Type Edited Book
Language Italian
Date 2013
Publication Place Macerata
Publisher Quodlibet
Categories Averroism, Tradition and Reception, Agostino Nifo, Spinoza
Author(s) Giovanni Licata
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Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo on Alexander of Aphrodisias: an unnoticed dispute, 1968
By: Edward P. Mahoney
Title Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo on Alexander of Aphrodisias: an unnoticed dispute
Type Article
Language English
Date 1968
Journal Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Volume 23
Issue 3
Pages 268-296
Categories Agostino Nifo, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Tradition and Reception, Averroism, Renaissance
Author(s) Edward P. Mahoney
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Haec igitur est nostra lex. Teologia e filosofia nel commento di Agostino Nifo alla Destructio destructionum di Averroè, 2013
By: Guido Giglioni
Title Haec igitur est nostra lex. Teologia e filosofia nel commento di Agostino Nifo alla Destructio destructionum di Averroè
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2013
Published in L'averroismo in età moderna (1400–1700)
Pages 125–144
Categories Theology, Agostino Nifo, al-Ġazālī, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Guido Giglioni
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Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition. The Case of Agostino Nifo, 2013
By: Leen Spruit
Title Intellectual Beatitude in the Averroist Tradition. The Case of Agostino Nifo
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Pages 125–144
Categories Agostino Nifo
Author(s) Leen Spruit
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L’averroismo in età moderna (1400-1700), 2013
By: Giovanni Licata (Ed.)
Title L’averroismo in età moderna (1400-1700)
Type Edited Book
Language Italian
Date 2013
Publication Place Macerata
Publisher Quodlibet
Categories Averroism, Tradition and Reception, Agostino Nifo, Spinoza
Author(s) Giovanni Licata
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Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo on Alexander of Aphrodisias: an unnoticed dispute, 1968
By: Edward P. Mahoney
Title Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo on Alexander of Aphrodisias: an unnoticed dispute
Type Article
Language English
Date 1968
Journal Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Volume 23
Issue 3
Pages 268-296
Categories Agostino Nifo, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Tradition and Reception, Averroism, Renaissance
Author(s) Edward P. Mahoney
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The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences, 2013
By: Nicholas Holland
Title The Transmutations of a Young Averroist: Agostino Nifo’s Commentary on the Destructio Destructionum of Averroes and the Nature of Celestial Influences
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Pages 99–124
Categories Agostino Nifo, Cosmology
Author(s) Nicholas Holland
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This chapter examines Agostino Nifo’s analysis of the nature of celestial influence on the sublunary world in his commentary on Averroes’s Destructio destructionum (Tahāfut al-Tahāfut). First it explores how Nifo derives from sources contained in Averroes’s work and through the mediation of Albertus Magnus and other Latin philosophers, the idea that the heavenly bodies may cause ‘spiritual’ or ‘intentional’ as well as physical or corporeal change in the sublunary world. In his commentary (1497) on the fourteenth dispute of the Destructio, Nifo brings this dualist model of celestial influence together with material drawn from Neoplatonic, Hermetic and astrological sources in order to explain the principles of prophecy, alchemy, demonology and magnetism. Where Averroes had associated celestial influence with a form of unintentional causality, Nifo’s account suggests that celestial bodies follow patterns of intentional activity. In this way, celestial bodies are seen as a cause of change in the sublunary world, in general, and on man, in particular. The closing section contrasts Nifo’s method of synthesising conflicting philosophical positions and his defense of astrology with the work of his contemporary and sometime associate Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

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