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Zwischen radikalem Aristotelismus und lutherischer Orthodoxie

Die These der ›doppelten Wahrheit‹ in der Altdorfer Schule


Back to issue: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte. Band 55
DOI: 10.28937/9783787336692_4
EUR 16.90


This essay focuses on the thesis of the so-called »double truth« within the philosophical and theological milieu of the University of Altdorf during the XVIIth Century. The problem of the »double truth« that aroused in the scholastic discussions on Averroism, receives a particular form in the context of Altdorf. In fact, this unique discursive setting was inspired there by the two main tendencies that characterize that philosophical and theological milieu at that time, namely radical Paduan Aristotelism, and Lutheran orthodoxy. Only apparently opposed, these two positions converge on that point. And the synthesis of these two currents of thought gives rise to an interesting justification of the paradox of the conflict »between true and true«: the development of a theory of different fields and levels of truth.