Philosopher
Sebastian Petrycy
Overview
Sebastian Petrycy of Pilzno (born 1554 in Pilzno – died 1626 in Kraków), in Latin known as Sebastianus Petricius, was a Polish philosopher and physician. He lectured and published notable works in the field of medicine but is principally remembered for his masterly Polish translations of philosophical works by Aristotle and for his commentaries to them. Petrycy made major contributions to nascent Polish philosophical terminology.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Ideas Sebastian Petrycy discusses
- Philosophy
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz
- Feeling
- Kraków
- Translation
- Moscow
- Psychology
- Polish language
- Politics
- Medical doctor
- Aristotle
- University of Padua
- Jagiellonian University
- Inductive reasoning
- Master of Arts
- Vernacular
- Terminology
- Experiment
- Will (philosophy)
- Democracy
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Modern language
- Pilzno
Place in the tradition
Part of History of philosophy in Poland.