Data di Pubblicazione:
2015
Citazione:
Una difesa del determinismo dell'ultimo Wyclif attribuita a Peter Payne / L. Campi. - In: RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA. - ISSN 0393-2516. - 70:4(2015), pp. 829-871. [10.3280/SF2015-004007]
Abstract:
A defence of determinism in late Wyclif attributed to Peter Payne. In this essay
is presented the edition of a short tract of natural theology based on the only two
extant copies preserved in mss. Praha, Národní knihovna, V.F.9, ff. 68v-75v and Wien,
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 4937, ff. 28r-34v. It is introduced by a historical
and philological note. A defence of John Wyclif’s views on future contingents condemned
at the Council of Constance in 1415, the tract turns out to be a startling profession
of crude determinism, so radical that it would hardly have been upheld by Wyclif
even in his later and most controversial writings. The anonymous tract can be plausibly
ascribed to Peter Payne, an Oxford Wycliffite who left England possibly to escape
prosecution and reached Prague only after Hus’s departure for Constance (11 October
1414). Probably composed from late 1419 to early 1420, when Wyclif’s theological
views were the object of harsh criticism by many masters at the University of Prague,
the tract has a literary form similar to that of a determinatio, the answer given by
a master to a question at the end of a disputation. Hence, it contains eighteen arguments
in support of Wyclif’s thesis that “everything that will come to pass, will come
to pass by absolute necessity” and six arguments against this thesis, followed by relevant
rejections. As to the writing technique, Payne draws a significant amount of textual
materials from several sources without citing them: namely Wyclif, Thomas Aquinas,
Jan Hus.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Peter Payne; John Wyclif; Jan Hus; University of Prague; Hussitism
Elenco autori:
L. Campi
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