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ARISTOTELIANISM, DESCARTES, AND HOBBES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2007

MICHAEL EDWARDS
MICHAEL EDWARDS
Affiliation:
Christ's College, Cambridge
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Abstract

The historiography of early modern Aristotelian philosophy and its relationship with its seventeenth-century critics, such as Hobbes and Descartes, has expanded in recent years. This article explores the dynamics of this project, focusing on a tendency to complicate and divide up the category of Aristotelianism into multiple ‘Aristotelianisms’, and the significance of this move for attempts to write a contextual history of the relationship of Hobbes and Descartes to their Aristotelian contemporaries and predecessors. In particular, it considers recent work on Cartesian and Hobbesian natural philosophy, and the ways in which historians have related the different forms of early modern Aristotelianism to the projects of the novatores.

Type
Historiographical Reviews
Information
The Historical Journal , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 449 - 464
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I wish to acknowledge the helpful comments made by the anonymous referee on an earlier draft of this article.