News On the Preeminence of the Moral in Dante's Convivio

  • Mariano Pérez Carrasco Universidad de San Andrés, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Keywords: Dante, Convivio, Moral, Metaphysics

Abstract

Both Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle resolutely asserted the primacy of metaphysics over morality. One of the most important turning points in Medieval philosophy is the reversal of this relationship. This inversion is one of the distinctive and novel features of Dante's thought. The way in which Dante justifies this primacy is surprising and confirms the originality of his thought. His argument is twofold. On the one hand, he offers a classification of the sciences -based on Aristotelian methodological principles- in correspondence with the heavens of the Ptolemaic system. On the other hand, he resorts to the original record of basing an inferior order on his own inferiority. This structure -key to understand the always preeminent place of practical philosophy in Dantesque political thought- is explained in detail in Il Convivio.

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Published
2006-06-05
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Pérez Carrasco, M. (2006). News On the Preeminence of the Moral in Dante’s Convivio. Patristica Et Mediævalia, 27, 115-120. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas2.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7838
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Vol 27 (2006)
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