Filosofare liberamente: dibattiti olandesi nella seconda metà del Seicento
Author(s)
Date Issued
2021
Type
article
Volume
19
Start Page
149
End Page
157
Journal
Abstract
Freedom of Philosophizing : Dutch Debates in the Second Half of the Seventeenth-Century
· In the Early-Modern Age, the libertas philosphandi related on the one hand with the claim of
autonomy of philosophy and science with respect to the truths of faith, and on the other hand
with the freedom to determine which philosophical current to adhere to, without having to
follow Aristotelian doctrines. In the Dutch universities of the Seventeenth Century, these elements
were combined with others that originated in the intense debate unleashed by the spread
of Cartesian theories. This paper examines the opinions of some professors of the University of
Leiden and of an anonymous defender of the freedom of philosophizing, in the past identified
with Henricus Eyssonius, a professor of medicine and physics at the University of Groningen.