Vetus melius est. Zarzuty nowinkarstwa i apologia tradycji w szesnastowiecznych sporach między humanistami a scholastykami

Dawid Nowakowski

doi:10.18778/7969-662-8

Vetus melius est. Allegations of Novelty and Apology of Tradition in the Sixteenth-Century Quarrels between Humanists and Scholastics

Dawid Nowakowski

Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filozoficzno-Historyczny

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Starość i młodość w literaturze i kulturze

Series: Literary and Linguistic Analects

Pages: 37-45

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/7969-662-8.03

Keywords: starość, młodość, motyw literacki, motyw kulturowy, cierpienie, śmierć

Published: 15 April 2016

Categories: Polish philology, Open Access

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The paper presents the 16th-century dispute between scholastics and humanists over the proper shape
of intellectual tradition. Each side, using the motto “vetus melius est”, accused the other of inexcusable
innovation. The first group reveals strong unwillingness to any change and fed conviction that only maintaining
of status quo will secure the Christianity. The second pointed to the poor memory of scholastics,
who forgot the real ancient culture, and proclaimed that the change is not an innovation, but a restoration.
In the end of the paper the author suggests an existence of possible relation between the humanist
attitude toward tradition and the emergence of modern idea of progress.

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Nowakowski, Dawid. 2016. “Vetus Melius Est. Allegations of Novelty and Apology of Tradition in the Sixteenth-Century Quarrels Between Humanists and Scholastics”. In Starość I młodość W Literaturze I Kulturze, edited by Michał Kuran, V:37-45. Literary and Linguistic Analects. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/7969-662-8.03.