Aristotelian cosmology and its influence on late medieval astrology

Authors

  • Lizardo David Silva Guevara Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú-Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas-Departamento Académico de Humanidades- Lima- Perú https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8572-0917

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/phai.v21i2.2660

Keywords:

Aristotle, cosmos, penuma, astrology, science, middle age

Abstract

Aristotelian cosmology and physics received by the medieval occident justify the scientific view of the (medieval) astrology. How so? Well, let’s consider the aristotelic theory of the tripartite man: body, soul and pneuma (as the link between both and as the reason of the ability of the soul to catch inmaterial knowledge from the material one). Now, let’s consider the aristotelian view of the cosmos as a system of celestial spheres –moved by the Unmoved mover – and that influences on earth in a way that they produce its movement. These two prior considerations will serve as a support to talk about the relation man-cosmos throughtout the pneuma (made from the aristotelian quintessence, the eter). This view, altogether, will be useful to justify some medieval views about the astrology as a scientific discipline, as starting in natural philosophy. Once this cosmological system falls, the magic-astrological believes that were supported by so will subsequently lose their epistemic-scientific level.

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Author Biography

Lizardo David Silva Guevara, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú-Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas-Departamento Académico de Humanidades- Lima- Perú

Licenciado de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Se especializa en temas de investigación de filosofía jurídica, filosofía escolástica y barroca (española y virreinal), y filosofía de la ciencia. Actualmente, docente en Berkeley School en el curso de Filosofía, Ética y moral desde el 2022. Antiguamente predocente en PUCP (2013-2021) en los cursos de Temas de filosofía antigua y medieval, temas de filosofía moderna, Ética, y Ciencia y Filosofía. Miembro de la Sociedad Internacional por los estudios de la filosofía medieval (SIEPM).

Published

2022-11-18

How to Cite

Silva Guevara, L. D. (2022). Aristotelian cosmology and its influence on late medieval astrology. Phainomenon, 21(2), e2660. https://doi.org/10.33539/phai.v21i2.2660