
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
The medieval period sees four different translations of the Nicomachean ethics culminating in that of Robert Gross test, 1247-48 and then William of Mervika about 30 years after that. In the Renaissance period starting especially in 1416-1417 the first new translation we know of is by Leonardo Bruni who writes a very rhetorically flowery translation into Latin. He gets attacked for it because it's not considered by some as being philosophically accurate. But nonetheless it's very interesting because of the debate it sparks,. Bruni believes that Aristotle's Greek is eloquent and he wants to prove that through his translation into Cicero and your not.
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