MATHEMATICS OF NATURAL ACTION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JESUIT SCHOLASTICISM (HURTADO, ARRIAGA, OVIEDO, COMPTON)

• Authors: Hanke Miroslav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the notion of the “sphere of action” as developed by a group of seventeenth-century Jesuit intellectuals: Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, and Compton. The problem inherited from fourteenth-century natural philosophers was to describe natural action which is spatially limited and decreases with distance at a regular rate. To capture natural patterns, scholastic philosophers introduced various forms of regularity or “uniformity,” the relevant type for the present context being “uniform difformity”. While the scholastic tradition also defined more sophisticated forms of regularity, these were not part of the discussion in the analysed corpus.

Keywords

EN

JESUIT SCHOLASTICISM; NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; PEDRO HURTADO DE MENDOZA; RODRIGO DE ARRIAGA; FRANCISCO DE OVIEDO; THOMAS COMPTON

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 593 – 607

Contributors

author

Hanke Miroslav

• Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3906-3151

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.6.2