Abstract

GONZALEZ NARES, Gabriel  and  MEZA MEJIA, Mónica del Carmen. Aristotelianism and Modern Science in New Spain. The Guanajuatense Jesuit Andrés de Guevara y Basoazábal’s De philosophiae vicissitudinibus. Valenciana [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.32, pp.7-36.  Epub Dec 08, 2023. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i32.688.

The novohispanic jesuit Andrés de Guevara y Basoazábal (1748-1801) wrote the Institutionum elementarium philosophiae, where he offers a desirable curriculum for the mexican youth that may include empirical modern science, virtuous politics and human wisdom. Through a comparative translation from Latin, this paper outlines Guevara biographically and, with the translation of some relevant passages, aims to: 1) to contextualize the author in his time and place, 2) to show the reception of modern science from the Aristotelian elements that Guevara had, and 3) demonstrate that modernity and Aristotelian tradition are complementary; and what is to be reformed is decrepit scholastics. It is concluded that through the proemium De vicissitudinibus Guevara shows that the Mexican reception of modernity comes from an Aristotelian thought.

Keywords : Modernity; Philosophy of science; Andrés de Guevara y Basoazábal; New Spain; Jesuits.

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