Taurellus, Nikolaus

Abstract

Taurellus was a philosopher and medical scientist at Tübingen, Basel, and Altdorf. The main thesis of his first philosophical writing “Philosophiae Triumphus” was met with vehement opposition among Lutheran theologians because he claimed that philosophy was the foundation of theology. In his later metaphysical writing, he took up the concept of metaphysics in which the general doctrine of God was removed from the metaphysics and later passed on to the modern concept of the philosophy of religion. His definition of God as “substantia absolutissima” made him to a forerunner of modern metaphysics.