title: Suarez on Genius and Melancholy
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metadata.value: Cuadrado, José Ángel García
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metadata.value: 2017-08-20T15:35:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-08-20T15:35:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: José Ángel García Cuadrado. Suarez on Genius and Melancholy. Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2017, vol. 33, issue 2, pp. 182–190.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7055
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metadata.value: Aristotle in the Problems (Section XXX, q. 1), states that excessive black bile (atrabilis or melancholy)
  can be a disease; but, the atrabilis in moderate doses, it can be the organic foundation of genius. This
  is the doctrine also maintained by Galen and the Aristotelian medieval interpreters. This text was
  widely discussed by Renaissance physicians and philosophers (Juan de Aviñón, Bernardino Montaña,
  Bartolomé Felipe, Pedro Mercado, Francisco Valleriola, and Juan Huarte de San Juan). In the Baroque
  period, it was a recurring theme in psychology, medicine, art, theology and literature. Some physicians
  attribute diabolic traits to melancholy associated with astral movements (Andrés Velázquez, Francisco
  Vallés, Alfonso de Santa Cruz). In the romanticism the figure of the genius picks up the features
  developed by the medicine of the baroque period. Suarez could not ignore the question and briefly
  addressed it in his commentary on De anima with a physiological or “naturalistic” interpretation of
  genius: Physiology determined the conditions and phenomena of genius. Other theologians, such as
  Báñez, maintain a more flexible interpretation: Intellectual habits (e.g., study and work) incline to the
  acquisition of a melancholic character. But neither Suárez nor Báñez attribute to melancholy either
  devilish or astral traits. Refs 24.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 33; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Galen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Báñez
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Juan Huarte de San Juan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: black bile
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: melancholy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Suarez on Genius and Melancholy
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metadata.value: Article
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