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Case, John

Born: 1540/41?, Woodstock, England

Died: 23 January 1600, Oxford, England

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John Case was the most important Aristotelian philosopher of sixteenth-century England. He demonstrates the continued vitality of the Aristotelian tradition in this period, in England as elsewhere, and in particular its eclecticism and capacity for absorbing new and humanistic currents.

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Primary Literature

  • Case, John. 1584. Summa veterum interpretum in vniuersam Dialecticam Aristotelis. London: Thomas Vautrollier.

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  1. Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, UK

    Jonathan Woolfson

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. University Ca' Foscari Venice, Venice, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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Woolfson, J. (2019). Case, John. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_415-1

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