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TAURELLUS, NICOLAUS (1547-1606)
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See also:TAURELLUS, NICOLAUS (1547-1606) , See also:German philosopher and theologian, was See also:born at Mompelgard. He read See also:theology at See also:Tubingen and See also:medicine at See also:Basel, where he lectured on See also:physical See also:science. He subsequently became See also:professor of medicine at See also:Altdorf, where he died in 1606. He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the See also:time, and endeavoured to construct a See also:philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and See also:bridge over the chasm made by the first See also:Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi. See also:Scholasticism he condemned on See also:account of its unquestioning submission to See also:Aristotle. Taurellus maintained the See also:necessity of going back to See also:Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the See also:justification of philosophy. His See also:chief See also:works were Philosophiae Triumphus (1573) ; Synopsis Metaphysicae Aristotelis (1596); De Rerum Aeternitate (1604); and a See also:treatise written in See also:criticism of See also:Caesalpinus entitled Caesae Alpes (1597). See Schmid-Schwarzenburg, Nicolaus Taurellus (186o and 1864). End of Article: TAURELLUS, NICOLAUS (1547-1606)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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