The Noblest Complexion

IF 0.2 1区 哲学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Lukáš Lička
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Abstract This article examines an uncommon materialist argument preserved in late medieval Prague quodlibets by Matthias of Knín (1409) and Prokop of Kladruby (1417). The argument connects the Galenic claim that the human body has the noblest and best-balanced complexion possible with the Alexandrist claim that the human rational soul emerges from such well-balanced matter without any supernatural intervention. Of the various medieval renderings of these claims, John Wyclif’s De compositione hominis is singled out as the most probable source of the argument. Far from attributing plain materialism to Wyclif, the article highlights a semimaterialist position, mentioned in two fifteenth-century De anima commentaries of Prague origin, grafting the immortal spirit postulate onto an Alexandrist-like doctrine of the intellect as educed from the harmoniously complexioned body. Finally, it is argued that this semimaterialist position may not only encapsulate how Bohemian masters read Wyclif, but also be close to Wyclif’s actual anthropological stance.
最高贵的肤色
摘要本文考察了中世纪晚期布拉格手稿中马蒂亚斯(Knín, 1409)和普罗科普(Kladruby, 1417)所保存的一个罕见的唯物主义论点。该论点将盖伦学派认为人体具有最高贵、最平衡的肤色的主张与亚历山大学派认为人类的理性灵魂在没有任何超自然干预的情况下从这种平衡良好的物质中产生的主张联系起来。在中世纪对这些说法的各种解释中,约翰·威克里夫的《人的合成》被挑出来作为最有可能的论点来源。这篇文章并没有把简单的唯物主义归因于威克里夫,而是强调了一种半唯物主义的立场,这种立场在两篇15世纪布拉格起源的德阿尼玛评论中提到过,它把不朽的精神假设嫁接到亚历山大式的智力学说上,这种学说是从和谐的身体中推导出来的。最后,本文认为这种半唯物主义的立场可能不仅概括了波西米亚大师对威克里夫的解读,而且也接近了威克里夫的实际人类学立场。
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