Voetius: See the Physicists

[Alexander Suarez]

In the excerpt from Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676) on "The Use of Reason in Matters of Faith" contained in the appendix of Willem J. Van Asselt's Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism, Voetius says the following:

With human reason we primarily and properly [primo & proprie] understand the capacity of the rational soul [anima] in man, by which he comprehends intelligible things and makes judgments: for this, see the physicists in their works on the soul.

Any idea who these "physicists" are?

 

[NaphtaliPress]

In the excerpt from Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676) on "The Use of Reason in Matters of Faith" contained in the appendix of Willem J. Van Asselt's Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism, Voetius says the following:



Any idea who these "physicists" are?

Maybe the meta"physicists"?

 

[Joshua]

In the excerpt from Gisbertus Voetius (1589 - 1676) on "The Use of Reason in Matters of Faith" contained in the appendix of Willem J. Van Asselt's Introduction to Reformed Scholasticism, Voetius says the following:



Any idea who these "physicists" are?

Probably.

 

[py3ak]

"Physicists" there will mean students of or writers on nature. Aristotle on the soul and his commentators and successors will be who Voetius has in mind.

 

[Joshua]

See? Told ya.

 

[Charles Johnson]

It's those who treated the same genre as covered in Aristotle's Physics.

Maybe the meta"physicists"?

Interestingly enough writers of this era generally considered pneumatology a distinct discipline from metaphysics.

 

[Charles Johnson]

Voetius begins his list of recommended works on physics on p. 382 of the Bibliotheca.