This chapter explores the seminal contribution of the Swedish mathematician Nicolaus Andreae Granius. As a professor of natural philosophy, Granius included ethics in his background and took part in several disputations on ethical themes. It describes Granius's interest, such as the deriving didactic approach, that was driven by an epistemological purpose in which ethics was in constant interaction with adjacent disciplines and topics. The chapter cites Granius's collection of books that offers greater insight into his disciplinary system and the place attributed to ethics. It tells the story about ethical debates that teaches very different lessons depending on whether it is explained as a series of teaching initiatives taken within a stable system of courtly patronage or is instead framed as an issue within the history of knowledge.

Ethics and disciplines at Helmstedt : Aristotelian debates in the scholarly career of Nicolaus Andreae Granius / S. Gulizia - In: History of Universities : volume XXXIV/2 : Teaching ethics in early modern Europe / [a cura di] V. Lepri, D. Facca, M. Roick, M. Feingold. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 Nov. - ISBN 9780192857545. - pp. 38-64 [10.1093/oso/9780192857545.003.0003]

Ethics and disciplines at Helmstedt : Aristotelian debates in the scholarly career of Nicolaus Andreae Granius

S. Gulizia
2021

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This chapter explores the seminal contribution of the Swedish mathematician Nicolaus Andreae Granius. As a professor of natural philosophy, Granius included ethics in his background and took part in several disputations on ethical themes. It describes Granius's interest, such as the deriving didactic approach, that was driven by an epistemological purpose in which ethics was in constant interaction with adjacent disciplines and topics. The chapter cites Granius's collection of books that offers greater insight into his disciplinary system and the place attributed to ethics. It tells the story about ethical debates that teaches very different lessons depending on whether it is explained as a series of teaching initiatives taken within a stable system of courtly patronage or is instead framed as an issue within the history of knowledge.
Nicolaus Andreae Granius; natural philosophy; didactic approach; disciplinary system; ethical debates; courtly patronage
Settore M-STO/05 - Storia della Scienza e delle Tecniche
nov-2021
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