A "predecessor" of Schopenhauer: Giulio Cesare Vanini

Giulio Cesare Vanini was burnt for atheism in Toulouse on February 9, 1619. Schopenhauer quotes him thirteen times in his writings and shows that he has read his works, apparently apologetic but in reality materialistic and atheistic: the Amphitheatrum aeternae providentiae (1615) and the De admiran...

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Autor: Carparelli, Mario
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Voluntas - Revista Internacional de Filosofia (Santa Maria)
Idioma:italiano
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/34007
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/34007
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Schopenhauer
Vanini
liberum arbitrium
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Sumario:Giulio Cesare Vanini was burnt for atheism in Toulouse on February 9, 1619. Schopenhauer quotes him thirteen times in his writings and shows that he has read his works, apparently apologetic but in reality materialistic and atheistic: the Amphitheatrum aeternae providentiae (1615) and the De admirandis (1616). The philosophically most relevant quote is found in the essay On the freedom of the human will, where the Italian philosopher, born in Puglia in 1585, is defined by Schopenhauer as "predecessor" for having denied the existence of free will.