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MANCERA ALBA, Marco. Definition of Eclecticism and Anti-Peripatetic Interdiscursivity in Fray Juan Benito Díaz de Gamarra’s Elementa recentioris philosophiae (1774). Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2023, n.68, pp.169-198.  Epub 26-Jun-2023. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2023.68.77753.

This article analyses the sources and intertexts of the definition of eclecticism that Fray Juan Benito Díaz de Gamarra presents in his book Elementa recentioris philosophiae (San Miguel el Grande, 1774). He resorts mainly to the passage “teach justice alongside pious knowledge” (docent justitiam cum pia scientia) from the Stromata of Clement of Alexandria to defend the utility of eclectic philosophy, because it values ancient and modern authors for their moral and philosophical usefulness. This definition is set in the context of the transition from scholastic thought to modern philosophy (recentior philosophia), and alludes to aninterdiscursive framework (with modern treatise writers such as Giuseppe Antonio Ferrari and Andrés Piquer) in which Díaz de Gamarra advocates modern eclectic philosophy for the teaching of youth in America, while questioning education fundamentally based on Aristotle, such as the scholastic method.

Palabras llave : eclecticism; modern philosophy; scholasticism; anti-peripateticism; education.

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