This essay explains the approach used to formulate a historical explanation behind the early modern natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano, as articulated in his Anima, Corpus, and Vestis trilogy, works he considered his magnum opus. This involved inquiring into his personal motivations, identifying the epistemological and methodological issues concerning natural philosophy he found to be in need of reform, and situating these within the social, economic, religious, and political imperatives that drove these issues and, as a consequence, the textual effort that resulted in the magnum opus. The research program outlined here also sought to expand our understanding of the imperatives driving natural philosophy in sixteenth-century Spain.

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解释早期现代巨著

这篇文章解释了贝尼托·阿里亚斯·蒙塔诺 (Benito Arias Montano) 的早期现代自然哲学背后的历史解释所采用的方法，正如他在他的《阿尼玛》、《语料库》和《维斯蒂斯》三部曲中所阐明的那样，他认为这是他的代表作。这包括探究他的个人动机，确定他发现需要改革的关于自然哲学的认识论和方法论问题，并将这些问题置于推动这些问题的社会、经济、宗教和政治要求中，因此，导致巨著的文本努力。此处概述的研究计划还试图扩大我们对 16 世纪西班牙推动自然哲学的必要性的理解。