Abstract
The place of the Nicomachean Ethics as the standard textbook for the teaching of ethics remained unaltered during the Reformation and post-Reformation era. As a result, close to forty commentaries on this work were published in Protestant territories between 1529 and 1682. Most of these commentaries have previously been listed in studies of the history of Aristotle’s reception, but only a very small number have been the object of more specific study. This article presents a survey of this tradition in both its Lutheran and Reformed trajectory, and it deals with the elements of the medieval and the Renaissance traditions of Aristotelian commentary that permeate Protestant Aristotelianism. Finally, it discusses the way in which the Aristotelian understanding of practical philosophy was received by these early modern Protestants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 218-238 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Reformation and Renaissance Review |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 2 Sep 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Research for this article was made thanks to the generous funding of the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cient?fico y Tecnol?gico (Fondecyt), [grant number 1170628], ?De Felipe Melanchthon a Johannes Eisenhart. La distincio?n entre lo justo legal y lo justo natural en los tempranos comentarios protestantes a E?tica a Nico?maco V, 7 1134b18-1135a5?. I thank Alfonso Herreros, Jos? Antonio Poblete, Joaqu?n Garc?a-Huidobro, Eric Hutchinson, and the editors of this RRR Special Issue for their comments. Very special thanks go to David Sytsma for his expert advice and help in finding some of these commentaries.
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Keywords
- Aristotelian commentators
- Aristotle
- Melanchthon
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Protestant Aristotelianism
- moral philosophy