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Vives, Juan Luis

Born: 1492/93, Valencia, Spain

Died: 1540, Bruges, Belgium

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Juan Luis Vives (1492/3-1540) was a Spanish-born humanist who spent the greater part of his life in the Low Countries. He strongly opposed scholasticism and made his mark as one of the most influential advocates of humanistic learning in the early sixteenth century. His bent was philosophical rather than philological. His works deal with a wide range of subjects including education, psychology, politics, social reform, and religion. Vives was not a systematic writer, which makes it difficult to classify him as a philosopher. His thought is eclectic and pragmatic, as well as historical, in its orientation. He took what he considered most valid from a variety of sources and combined these elements into a Christianized Aristotelianism.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lorenzo Casini

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    Marco Sgarbi

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Casini, L. (2016). Vives, Juan Luis. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_694-1

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