Vincenzo Buzzetti

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Vincenzo Buzzetti SJ (23 March 1777 – 14 December 1824) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.

Biography

Early in his academic life, Canon Buzzetti had studied empiricism under former Jesuits at the college of San Pietro's in Piacenza and had been a disciple of John Locke, but was led by a Spanish Jesuit, Baltasar Masdeu (1741–1820), to read Salvatore Roselli and the Dominican Antoine Goudin (c. 1639–1695),[1] which succeeded in turning him into a pioneer of the Thomistic revival in Europe.

After graduating from San Pietro's, he studied at the Collegio Alberoni (1793–1798), a college run by the Lazarist Order,[2] and professed at the Seminary of Piacenza, teaching first philosophy (1806–1808) and then theology (1808–1824). In Piacenza, Buzzetti taught Thomistic philosophy and theology to a number of students, including the brothers Serafino and Domenico Sordi. His subsequent teachings are summarized in the three volumes of the Institutiones sanae philosophiae, which remained in manuscript[3]: the first on logic and general metaphysics; the second on psychology; and the third on cosmology and ethics. Buzzetti expounded and clarified the fundamental theses of Thomas Aquinas, adopting hylomorphism and the thesis of the real distinction between essence and existence, against the doctrines of various modern philosophers, both rationalists (René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) and empiricists (Locke, Condillac). Buzzetti opposed in particular the sensualist theory of knowledge.

In matters of faith, he opposed Felicité Robert de Lamennais and traditionalism.

Notes

  1. ↑ Ashley, Benedict M. (2009). The Dominicans. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Inglis, John (1998). Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy. Leiden: BRILL, p. 59.
  3. ↑ Modern edition by Amato Masnovo in 2 volumes. See, Buzzetti, Vincenzo (1940–41). Institutiones sanae Philosophiae juxta Divi Thomae atque Aristotelis inconsussa Dogmata. Piacenza: Merlini.

References

  • Dall'Arda, Giovanni Francesco (1941). Antico Elogio in Memoria di Vincenzo Buzzetti. Piacenza: Unione Tipografica Piacentina.
  • Fermi, Alfonso (1959). Origine del Tomismo Piacentino nel Primo Ottocento: Vincenzo Buzzetti, Angelo Testa, Antonio Ranza: Vincenzo Buzzetti Imparò il Tomismo al Collegio Alberoni o fu Tomista Autodidatta?. Piacenza: Seminario Vescovile.
  • Marzolini, Raffaele (1924). Vincenzo Buzzetti. Piacenza: Unione Tipografica Piacentina.
  • Masnovo, Amato (1920). "Vincenzo Buzzetti e Felicité Robert de Lamennais," Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 42–55.
  • Masnovo, Amato (1923). Il Neo-Tomismo in Italia: Origini e Prime Vicende. Milano: «Vita e Pensiero.»
  • Rolandetti, Vittorio (1974). Vincenzo Buzzetti Teologo. Roma: Pontificia Università Lateranense.
  • Schmidinger, Heinrich (1994). "La Disputa Sugli Inizi della Neoscolastica Italiana: Salvatore Roselli (1722–1784), Vincenzo Buzzetti (1777–1824) e Gaetano Sanseverino (1811–1865)." In: E. Coreth, W.M. Neidl, G. Pfligersdorffer (eds.): La Filosofia Cristiana nei Secoli XIX e XX, Vol. II. Ritorno all'Eredità Scolastica. Roma: Città Nuova, pp. 93–104.
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