Remarks on greed (aneleutheria, illiberalitas) as a moral flaw in Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus by Franciscus Tidicaeus

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https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2022.006

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Aristotle, Pseudo-Aristotle, Franciscus Tidicaeus, ancient ethics, Copernicus Library

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present the reflections on greed as a moral flaw, which were included in the Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus of Franciscus Tidicaeus, then professor of the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń, published in 1609 in Leipzig. The work of the Toruń scholar contains an insightful and erudite exegesis of the essay On Virtues and Vices, preserved under the name of Aristotle. A comparison of the part of commentary we are interested in with the material contained in Aristotle's three ethical treatises leaves no doubt that Tidicaeus' remarks on this flaw reflect the moral teaching of his predecessor, constituting the starting point and at the same time the main goal of his arguments.

Author Biography

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

Tomasz Dreikopel, PhD, works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In 1999 he obtained a master's degree at the Faculty of Humanities of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (hereinafter: NCU), and in 2008 a doctorate at the Faculty of Philology of the NCU. His research interests concern, among others, ancient philosophy and its broadly understood reception, especially in the academic gymnasiums of Gdańsk and Toruń at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is the author of several dozen publications, published, among others, “Nowy Filomata”, “Rocznik Toruński”, “Szkice Humanistyczne”, “Folia Toruniensia”, “Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo”, and in several collective monographs. Among the authors publications, the following need to be mentioned: (2005) Wizerunek Protagorasa z Abdery w Platońskim dialogu Protagoras [The image of Protagoras of Abdera in Plato's dialogue Protagoras] (309a-348a), W. Wróblewski (Ed.), W kręgu Platona i jego dialogów [In the circle of Plato and his dialogues] (pp. 103-105); (2010) Recepcja poglądów etycznych Arystotelesa w Isagoge ethica i Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus Franciszka Tidicaeus [Reception of Aristotle's ethical views in Isagoge ethica and Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus by Francis Tidicaeus]; (2015).  Szczodrość jako wartość moralna w Etykach Arystotelesa [Generosity as a moral value in Aristotle's Ethics], W I. Matusiak-Kemp and A. Naruszewicz-Duchlińska (Ed.), Idee i wartości w języku i kulturze [Ideas and Values in Language and Culture] (pp. 44-51); (2019) Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's essay Peri\ tw=n a)retw=n kai\ kakiw=n by Franciscus Tidicaeus, professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Toruń, Folia Toruniensia 19, 155-162.

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2022-11-09

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Dreikopel, T. (2022). Remarks on greed (aneleutheria, illiberalitas) as a moral flaw in Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus by Franciscus Tidicaeus. Folia Toruniensia, 22, 113–126. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2022.006

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