Salzburg Thomism
The Salzburg Thomism is a special alignment of Thomism , which at the old Benedictine University of Salzburg was developed in the 17th and 18th centuries and taught.
genesis
Thomas Aquinas was admittedly from the beginning of the university, i. H. Based on the assistant's day in 1622, which was given as the teaching maxim, however, it still took a certain amount of time to find oneself before the Salzburg School exhibited the character that helped it to gain international importance beyond the borders of its own country. “In the first period of the university's history from the founding to the academic reform under A. Stadlmayr (1652), Salzburg Thomism was unmistakably under the influence of Italian Altaristotelism in general and in addition to its inherent predilection for the reception of Thomas by the Italian and Spanish Dominicans the averroistic Aristotle School of Padua in particular ”. The old Aristotelian traits appear above all in the fact that not only Averroes , the Greek Aristotle commentators Alexander Aphrodisias , Themistios and Ammonios Hermeneiu and the representatives of the Italian Aristotle Renaissance (such as Marcantonio Zimara , Agostino Nifo , Alessandro Piccolomini , Jacopo Zabarella ) is referenced, but also corresponding philosophical positions and arguments are formulated.
Heyday
The second period of Salzburg Thomism is characterized by the change from a peripatetic to a strictly Thomistic-Thomanic program. Based on Alphons Stadlmayr's (1610–1683) Philosophia tripartita and largely influenced by the Philosophia rationalis nov-antiqua of the Spanish Benedictine cardinal José Saenz d'Aguirre , the focus of Aristotle's reception is shifting. Original quotations from Aristotelian writings fade into the background in favor of Aquinates , whereby the logical, hylemorphistic and ontological principles of Aristotle continue to represent the supporting foundation of the Thomistic educational building of the Benedictines. With the works of Ludwig Babenstuber ( Philosophia Salisburgensis , 1706) and Paul Mezger ( Theologia Salisburgensis , 1695), the doctrine of the Salzburgers unfolded into a late bloom of Thomism , whose central concern was to present its unabridged doctrine compared to the modernist interpretations of Thomas . The contrasting demarcation from other schools such as Scotism and (less closed) from the Jesuit position also proved to be constitutive .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bauer, Emmanuel: Thomistic Metaphysics at the old Benedictine University of Salzburg. Presentation and interpretation of a philosophical school of the 17th / 18th centuries Century. - A research report. In: Information Philosophie 4/1998, 83.