”Quaestio ethica et politica, utrum honestum natura constet, an vero tantum opinione” by Francisco Tidicaeus : introduction, translation from Latin and commentary

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https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2017.014

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ancient philosophy, ancient ethics, the reception of ancient philosophy, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Franciscus Tidicaeus

Abstract

The study consists of the introduction, translation and commentary to the text written at the beginning of the 1580s by Franciscus Tidicaeus (1554–1617) a doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, a medical doctor and professor in the Academic Gymnasium School in Toruń. The text was published in 1609.

Author Biography

Tomasz Dreikopel, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Institute of Philosophy

Tomasz Dreikopel, PhD, is an adjunct in the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In 1999 he received MA at the Faculty of Humanities of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. In 2008 he defended his PhD thesis in the Philological Faculty of Nicolaus Copernicus University. His research interest focus on the reception of ancient literature and philosophy in academic gymnasium schools of Gdańsk and Toruń at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. He is the author of 25 academic texts published in “Nowy Filomata”, “Rocznik Toruński”, “Szkice Humanistyczne”, “Folia Toruniensia”, “Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo”. His most important publications include: List Bartłomieja Keckermanna do Franciszka Tidicaeusa z 1608 roku, Rocznik Toruński, vol. 30: 2003, pp. 183–195; Franciszka Tidicaeusa dysputa de summo bono seu felicitate humana, Nowy Filomata, vol. 2: 2007, pp. 147–155; Recepcja poglądów etycznych Arystotelesa w Isagoge ethica i Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus Franciszka Tidicaeusa (Olsztyn 2010); Prosfonesis Adama Tobolskiego do Franciszka Tidicaeusa z 1608 r., Folia Toruniensia, vol. 14: 2014, pp. 63–69; Epigramaty Ulryka Schobera z 1592 r. – poetyckie świadectwo toruńskiej kampanii przeciwko fałszywym lekarzom, [in:] Czystość i brud. Higiena nowożytna (XV-XVIII w.), red. W. Korpalska, W. Ślusarczyk, Bydgoszcz 2015, pp. 161–172.

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Tidicaeus, Franciscus. 1609. Quaestio ethica et politica, utrum honestum natura constet, an vero tantum opinione. Lipsiae: Impensis H. Grosii.

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2017-07-06

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Dreikopel, T. (2017). ”Quaestio ethica et politica, utrum honestum natura constet, an vero tantum opinione” by Francisco Tidicaeus : introduction, translation from Latin and commentary. Folia Toruniensia, 17, 231–242. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2017.014

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