The ilemorphic doctrine has its earliest origin in the thought of Aristotle, according to whom every becoming entity is an ilemorphic compound that must be conceived as a synolus of matter and form. The Aristotelian doctrine was highly valued by Scholastic and, despite the various interpretations given to it by different Masters, it remained a common and distinctive doctrine throughout the medieval philosophical tradition. The result is a series of dissimilar interpretations, but the main difficulty, which united and divided the great Masters, lies in the question: is the ilemorphic structure universal or not? This contribution intends to answer this question starting from the thought of the Franciscan Pietro di Giovanni Olivi, who enters the debate as a de- fender of the universality of ilemorphic composition, managing to keep his distance from those ultrarealist conceptions, thus excluding the hypothesis of an a priori uniqueness of matter, and supporting the existence of different materials as the expression of a single potential matter.
L'universalità della dottrina ilemorfica : un confronto con il pensiero di Pietro di Giovanni Olivi
Piantoni Martina
2023-01-01
Abstract
The ilemorphic doctrine has its earliest origin in the thought of Aristotle, according to whom every becoming entity is an ilemorphic compound that must be conceived as a synolus of matter and form. The Aristotelian doctrine was highly valued by Scholastic and, despite the various interpretations given to it by different Masters, it remained a common and distinctive doctrine throughout the medieval philosophical tradition. The result is a series of dissimilar interpretations, but the main difficulty, which united and divided the great Masters, lies in the question: is the ilemorphic structure universal or not? This contribution intends to answer this question starting from the thought of the Franciscan Pietro di Giovanni Olivi, who enters the debate as a de- fender of the universality of ilemorphic composition, managing to keep his distance from those ultrarealist conceptions, thus excluding the hypothesis of an a priori uniqueness of matter, and supporting the existence of different materials as the expression of a single potential matter.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
