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Aither 12/2014 (International issue no. 3):76-95 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2014.019
Johannes Jessenius (1565-1621) published in 1618 a treatise On the Immortality of the Soul, which he, in his own words, defended as a dissertation at the university in Leipzig in 1587. The place and the time of its origin made some of the interpreters include this early work of Jessenius under the tradition of Lutheran Aristotelianism or, more precisely, Aristotelianism as presented by Melanchthon. This article puts this early work of Jessenius into a historical context and analyses the content of the treatise. It seems that with respect both to the context of Aristotelianism at Lutheran universities in the 1580s and to the way of Jessenius' argumentation the treatise was at least complemented and reworked later after Jessenius' studies in Padua and cannot be assumed as Melanchthonian Aristotelianism.
Published: September 30, 2014 Show citation
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