Abstract
This article discusses the biography, works and philosophical views of Giuseppe Angiolini, an Italian Jesuit working at the Academy of Polotsk at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The whole philosophy represented by Angiolini is in line with Italian Catholic philosophy, which in turn was influenced by the traditional Jesuit Collegium Romanum. The philosophy of Angiolini contains certain Suarezian ideas. In this respect it was influenced by the Jesuit tradition, especially as regards the mental difference between essence and existence, and modalism.
Highlights
Joseph Angiolini was born on 14 October 1747 in the region of Piacenza in Northern Italy
From the formal point of view, the first part of Angiolini's logic {Logica instituens) is formed - as we have seen - of questions and answers
In the second part and in all other parts of his philosophy he uses the thetical method and syllogistic form. He placed in his writings plenty of corollaria and scholia
Summary
Joseph Angiolini was born on 14 October 1747 in the region of Piacenza in Northern Italy He joined the Society ofJesus in the Venice Jesuit Province on his fifteenth birthday in 1762. Angiolini taught philosophy and mathematics in the Polotsk College between 1785 and 1794 He taught theology and canon law at the same college until 1806. He served as a rector of thejesuit College in Saint Petersburg between 1806 and 1809 after which he returned to the Polotsk College, where he resumed his post as professor of theology Soon after he was promoted to serve as vice-rector of the Academy and was appointed a consul tor to the Belarusian Jesuit Province. On the same day the Polotsk Academy was inaugurated, 10 June 1812, Angiolini received his doctor's degree in theology and canon law from Bishop Jakub Ignacy Dederko. Angiolini is believed to be the author of the manuscript Brevis introductio ad philosophiam, kept by the Archive of the Society ofJesus in Cracow (No 201)
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