Telesio was born of noble parentage at Cosenza, a town in Calabria, a region of Southern Italy.
Telesio was the head of the great South Italian movement which protested against the accepted authority of abstract reason, and sowed the seeds from which sprang the scientific methods of Campanella and Bruno, of Bacon and Descartes, with their widely divergent results.
The whole system of Telesio shows lacunae in argument, and ignorance of essential facts, but at the same time it is a forerunner of all subsequent empiricism, scientific and philosophical, and marks clearly the period of transition from authority and reason to experiment and individual responsibility.
BernardinoTelesio was born at Cosenza in Calabria in 1509 as the son of a noble and quite wealthy family.
Telesio's vision of the genesis of nature is simple to the point of being archaic, yet at the same time astonishingly modern in the sense that he seems to have been one of the very first defenders of a theory of natural evolution without metaphysical or theological presuppositions.
Telesio combined the medical theory of spirit with a basically Stoic notion, that of the hegemonikon, according to which the spirit in the brain is responsible for all the states and operations traditionally ascribed to the tripartite soul: “the animal … is governed by one substance residing in the brain” (Quod animal universum ch.
Telesio'sphilosophy was certainly naturalistic, but I have not seen any evidence that he considered himself heterodox in any way, as some philosophers would in not too many years.
Telesio is often referred to as a nature philosopher, a title intended to distinguish him from Aristotelian natural philosophers.
At PaduaTelesio first came to be recognized as a leader of the anti-Aristoteleans.
For, if we are to rely on the senses and not on reason, since the senses do not reveal the existence of matter except as modified by forces, the central doctrinal principle is in contradiction with the most important methodological tenet.
This point was brought out in the discussions between the advocates of Aristotle and the followers of Telesio in the sixteenth century.
BernardinoTelesio was born in Cosenza near Naples.
Telesio's own emphasis on the use of the senses to reach natural truth led to the conclusion that knowledge is derived from the senses.
Although others pointed to contradictions in Telesio's thought, he is still an important figure in the transition from the Aristotelian emphasis on reason and the principle of authority to the modern scientists' emphasis on experiment and independent investigation and observation of nature.
According to Telesio, the explanation of the physical world is not to be sought outside the forces immanent in or proper to nature itself.
Telesio, in his attempt to explain nature according to immanent principles, advances beyond common magic and alchemy, and lays the basis for modern physics.
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BernardinoTelesio was born in 1509 and died Oct. 1, 1588.
Telesio received a doctorate in medicine at Padua in 1535.
In one of Telesio¹s works called De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things, 1586) he portrays the universe as a closed, determinate system that always operates in the same way.
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Bernardino Telesio[bernArdE´nO tAlA´zyO] Pronunciation Key, 1509–88, Italian philosopher, one of the leaders in the attack on that part of Aristotelianphilosophy that had furnished the foundation for scholasticism.
With Bruno and Campanella, he opened the way to a new naturalism, deemphasizing theories of metaphysics and urging the importance of scientific knowledge based upon experience and experiment.
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Telesio was the head of the great South Italian movement which protested against the accepted authority of abstract reason, and sowed the seeds from which sprang the scientific methods of Tommaso Campanella and Giordano Bruno, of Francis Bacon and René Descartes, with their widely divergent results.
At the end of his scheme, probably in deference to theological prejudices, he added an element which was utterly alien, namely, a higher impulse, a soul superimposed by God, in virtue of which we strive beyond the world of sense.
Beside the De Rerum Natura, he wrote De Somno, De his guae in aere fiunt, De Mari, De Cometis et Circulo Lacteo, De usu respirationis, etc.
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TELESIO, BERNARDINO[Telesio, Bernardino], 1509-88, Italian philosopher, one of the leaders in the attack on that part of Aristotelianphilosophy that had furnished the foundation for scholasticism.
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