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Joan Tello

“Judging without Error” according to Joan Lluís Vives

In: F. Schaffenrath, D. Sacré (eds.), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Leuven 2022). 

Pages: 647-657.

Publisher: Brill.

Year: 2024

ISBN: 9789004695573.

This paper draws attention to an issue that preoccupied Joan Lluís Vives (1492/93–1540) quite frequently, namely the right assessment of reality (“incorrupte iudicare”, to judge without error) and, related to this, the attainability or unattainability of truth. Special emphasis is given to the process of approving or disapproving a certain reasoning, to the sources that can provide trustworthy information, to the dual role that emotions play, and to the potential influence from the Skeptical tradition. According to Vives, the fact that the mind aims for, and thinks about, items which cannot be realized in this life may be proof of an afterlife.

Keywords: emotion, error, judgment, truth.

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Joan Tello

Vives Studies: A Review of the Field

Journal: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. 

Issue: 85/2 (p. 475-535)

Year: 2023

ISSN: 0006-1999 / 0067-7000.

Publisher: Librairie Droz.

The aim of this article is to survey the most important scholarship from the sixteenth century up to our present day in order to study the life, the works, and the thought of Valencian humanist Joan Lluís Vives. A detailed bibliography, which includes the most recent research, is given in the Appendix.

Keywords: bibliography, humanism, scholarship, Vives.

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Joan Tello

El aforismo como recurso didáctico en Joan Lluís Vives

In: Beatriz Bossi (ed.), La relación socrática maestro-discípulo: transmisión y transformación. 

Pages: 133-145.

Publisher: Guillermo Editor.

Year: 2023

ISBN: 9788418981593.

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Joan Tello 
Vives’s Views on Law: Key Notions in the Aedes legum

Journal: Journal of Catalan Intellectual History

Issue: 12 (p. 25-45)
Year: 2019-2020
ISSN: 2014-1564

Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona / Institut d'Estudis Catalans

Renaissance humanist Joan Lluís Vives explained his views on Law, its origin, its elements, and its corruption mainly in the De disciplinis (1531). However, he had already outlined some relevant key notions in early works such as the Praefatio in Leges Ciceronis (1514) and, especially, the Aedes legum (1519). The aim of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to provide the reader with a succinct introduction to the latter work and, on the other hand, to identify some of its key concepts and describe their meaning.

Keywords: Humanism, Law, lexicography, Renaissance philosophy, Vives.

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Joan Tello

Els límits del raonament i les possibilitats de la fe en Joan Lluís Vives

Journal: Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia

Issue: 30-31 (p. 83-92)
Year: 2019-2020
ISSN: 1130-4383

Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans

La present comunicació planteja breument una qüestió filosòfica que és força present en les obres de l’humanista valencià Joan Lluís Vives: els límits de la raó per a comprendre el món i les possibilitats de la fe i de la religió com a eines per a superar aquesta limitació. Amb la finalitat d’il·lustrar i reflexionar sobre aquesta qüestió, hom pren com a punt de partida una obra eclèctica, Introductio ad sapientiam (1524), i tot seguit s’analitzen en detall alguns textos i pensaments extrets del De disciplinis, De anima et uita i De ueritate fidei Christianae.

Paraules clau: coneixement, fe, límit, raó, religió, saviesa, (Joan Lluís) Vives.

The limits of reasoning and the possibilities of faith in Joan Lluís Vives.

The present paper addresses shortly a philosophical question that is very present in the works of the Valencian humanist Joan Lluís Vives: the limits of reason to understand the world and the possibilities of faith and religion as tools to overcome such limitation. In order to exemplify and reflect on this issue, an eclectic work such as the Introductio ad sapientiam (1524) is taken as a starting point; then some passages and thoughts extracted from De disciplinis, De anima et uita, and De ueritate fidei Christianae are thoroughly examined.

Keywords: faith, knowledge, limit, reason, religion, (Joan Lluís) Vives, wisdom.

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