Introduction
Part 1 The Context
1. Philosophical Antecedents: The Methodological Case for a Novohispanic Philosophy
2. The Spanish Context and Its Influence on Novohispanic Philosophy
Part 2 Different Types of Aristotelianism
3. Aristotelianism and Its Traditions
4. Renaissance Aristotelianism
5. The Differences Between Aristotle and Aristotelian Thomism
6. Towards the Reception of Aristotle in New Spain
7. Understanding Novohispanic Aristotelianism: The Influence of the Posterior Analytics on the University Curriculum
Part 3 Novohispanic Authors
8. Alonso’s Concept of the Soul and Its Aristotelian Roots
9. Alonso’s Logic and Aristotle’s Organon
10. Aristotle and Alonso’s Practical Philosophy
11. Aristotle, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Bernardino de Sahagún
12. From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s Aristotelianism to Francisco Xavier Clavijero’s Naturalism
Part 4 Reconstructing Novohispanic Arguments
13. Latin American Aristotelianism and Its Philosophical Implications: Some Arguments and Their Reconstruction
Conclusion: On Interpreting the Past
Biography
Virginia Aspe Armella is a full‑time researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City). She is the author of Approaches to the Theory of Freedom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2018) and a member of the Academia Hispano Americana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras de México.
