Francesco Piccolomini (philosopher)

Francesco Piccolomini (1523–1607) was senior chair of natural philosophy at the University of Padua from 1560–1598, moving there from previous professorial positions at the University of Siena, Macerata, and Perugia. His best-known work, Universa philosophia de moribus (A Comprehensive Philosophy of Morals), systematizes and extends Aristotle's work on ethics and politics. He sparred intellectually with his fellow Aristotelian professor Jacopo Zabarella.[1]

For Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, see Pope Pius III. For the eighth Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, see Francesco Piccolomini (Jesuit). For the Bishop of Grosseto, see Francesco Piccolomini (bishop).

He was in his time one of the most revered (and the highest paid[2]) philosophy professor, and Torquato Tasso called him "a veritable sea and ocean of all learning".

Works
  • Universa philosophia de moribus (1583)
  • Comes politicus pro recta ordinis ratione propugnator (1596)
  • Librorum ad scientiam de natura attinentium (Venència, 1596)
  • De rerum definitionibus (1600)
  • Discursus ad universam logicam attinens (1606)
gollark: You can only really say something is "rational" as a way to achieve some goals, not just objectively "rational" on its own. So arguably humans are somewhat rationally maximizing short-term happiness. *But*, isn't happiness at least partly just a heuristic for decision-making *too*?
gollark: This can probably just be read as "strong time preference" again, I guess, *partly*.
gollark: https://xkcd.com/2278/
gollark: It is... also awful.
gollark: Oh yes, consider our ability to prepare for future things.

References
  1. Eugenio Garin: History of Italian Philosophy, Volume 1
  2. Kraye (1997) p. 68

Bibliography
  • Alasdair Macintyre Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Volume 2 Cambridge (2006) pp. 7–18 ISBN 0-521-67062-4
  • Enciclopèdia Espasa Volume 44, p. 329 ISBN 84-239-4544-8
  • Kraye, Jill Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts Cambridge University Press (1997) ISBN 9780521426046 pp. 68–69
  • Ragnisco, P. "Giacomo Zabarella il filosofo: la polemica tra Fr. Piccolomini e G. Zabarella" Atti dell' Istituto Veneto 6, 4, 1885–86
  • Schmitt, C.B. et al. eds. The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy pp. 527–30
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