1st Edition

Aristotle in Coimbra The Cursus Conimbricensis and the education at the College of Arts

By Cristiano Casalini Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Aristotle in Coimbra is the first book to cover the history of both the College of Arts in Coimbra and its most remarkable cultural product, the Cursus Conimbricensis , examining early Jesuit pedagogy as performed in one of the most important colleges run by the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century. The first complete philosophical textbook published by a Jesuit college, the Cursus... Read more

Preface by John W. O’Malley

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 – The Gouveia affair

2 – A province committed to education

3 – The Cursus

4 – The problem of the teacher

5 – The problem of the cause

5.1 - Specific metaphysics

5.2 - Secondary causes, ulterior motives

5.3 - Hazards and probabilities

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Cristiano Casalini teaches the history of education at the University of Parma. He has worked on critical texts and commentaries of sixteenth and seventeenth-century classics of education, especially in and around the Jesuit order. With Claude Pavur SJ he co-edited Jesuit Pedagogy (1540–1616): A Reader (2016). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and a Visiting Professor at the Lynch School of Education, both at Boston College.

Aristotle in Coimbra received the Joaquim de Carvalho Award, 2016,  from the University of Coimbra.