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Saverius Pace (17th century) was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in physics.
Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birthplace in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the ''Collegium Melitense''
Life
Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birthplace in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the ''Collegium Melitense'' see
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in Valletta. Only one work of Pace's has survived. No portrait of Pace is known to exist so far.
Known works
Pace’s only work which is still extant is ''Elucidario in quatru libru Phisicoru Aristotelis'' (''An Examination of the first four Books of Aristotle’s ‘Physics’''), written in 1649 (begun in May of that year).''Ibid.'', p. 97. The manuscript is written in old Italian or Sicilian, and held at theNational Library of Malta
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, Valletta, marked as MS. 1465. Its pages are not numbered.
The work is a detailed philosophical examination of the first four out of the eight books of Aristotle’s ''Physics''. Its division is typical of Scholasticism
Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translate ...
, and hence organised in Articles and Conclusions.
See also
*Philosophy in Malta
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References
Sources
* Mark Montebello, ''Il-Ktieb tal-Filosofija f’Malta'' (''A Source Book of Philosophy in Malta''), PIN Publications, Malta, 2001. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pace, Saverius 16th-century births 17th-century deaths 17th-century Maltese philosophers Scholastic philosophers People from Valletta