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Introduction: a national philosophical initiative with global repercussions ...................7 2. Philosophizing with Aristotle? Presenting the science of philosophy in a systematic, deductive and dialectical manner ....23 3. The science of logic: discovery, teaching and demonstration ............49 4. The science of physics: the plenitude of the world or the whole world ....71 5. The science of the soul or the invention of “anthropology” ...91 6. The science of ethics: happiness and freedom...........109 7. Metaphysical science, natural theology and “pneumatology” ............129 8. Conclusion or what is left to do ................................155 3 Bibliographic references ................................................159 Index of Names ..............................................................171 aCronymS and abbrEviationS An.Po. = ARISTOTLE, Posterior Analytics. AT = R. Descartes. Œuvres. Édition Adam et Tannery, Paris, 1897sg. BGUC = General Library of the University of Coimbra BNP = National Library of Portugal (Lisbon). BPE = Évora Public Library. BUB = Library of the University of Barcelona. De Coel. = ARISTOTLE, On the Heavens. De Ver. = THOMAS AQUINAS, Disputed Questions on Truth. EE = The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. A translation & Commentary by G.E. Ganss, Chicago 1992. Eth. = ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics. In Primam = FRANCISCO DE VITORIA, Comentários a la Primera Parte de Santo Tomás (1539), BUB, Ms. 831; transl. Orrego Sánchez. Met. = PEDRO DA FONSECA, Commentariorum in libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis. Ms. = Manuscript. The titles of the Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis S. J. Coimbra- Lisbon, 1592-1606 (henceforth: CACJC) will be provided using the following abbreviations: An = In tres libros de Anima Aristotelis Stagiritae. 5 As = Tractatus de Anima Separata (see: In tres libros de Anima Aristotelis Stagiritae). Ca = Commentarii in libros Categoriarum Aristotelis Stagiritae (see: In universam Dialecticam Aristotelis). Co = In Quatuor libros de Coelo Aristotelis Stagiritae. Gc = In duos libros De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotelis Stagiritae. Et = In libros Ethicorum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum, aliquot Conimbricensis Cursus Disputationes in quibus praecipua quaedam Ethicae disciplinae capita continentur. In = In libros Aristotelis de Interpretatione (see: In universam Dialecticam Aristotelis). Is = Commentarii in Isagogem Porphyrii (see: In universam Dialecticam Aristotelis). Metaph. = the never published volume of the commentary on Metaphysics. Ph = In Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis Stagiritae. Sa = In libros Aristotelis de Posteriori Resolutione (see: In universam Dialecticam Aristotelis). Immediately after the titles of the aforementioned works and before any numbers are mentioned, the reader will sometimes find the following abbreviations: exp = explanation (explanatio); pr = Prooemium; c = chapter; q = question (quaestio); a = article; s = section; d = dispute. 6 1. introduCtion: a national philoSophiCal initiativE with Global rEpErCuSSionS The generic term “Conimbricenses”, or “Coimbra Course” for short, was coined by philosophical historiographers to reference a set of eight works of commentary on Aristotle’s philosophy, published by the presses of Coimbra and Lisbon between the years of 1592 and 1606. These were brought together under the general rubric Commentaries on Aristotle by the Coimbra Jesuit College (henceforth CACJC). The tradition which first introduced this designation could already be said to inform v.g. the work of Francisco Soares Lusitano, whose Philosophical Course (1651) alludes to the “Coimbra Priests”, as he terms them, as does the Course of António Cordeiro (1677; 1714). In any case, even though “Conimbricenses” rapidly imposed itself – we 7