Aristotelian Traditions and Japan’s Christian Century (1549–1650)

The Second International Conference

Gakushuin Women’s College (Tokyo)
19–20 July 2014


Program

Saturday, 19 July 2014

13:00
Opening 

13:30
Welcome and Introduction

Ken Nejime (Gakushuin Women’s College)

§ 1. Aristotelian Traditions in Philosophy, Science, and Medicine

14:00 Keynote
The Jesuits, the Historical Aristotle, and the New Sciences
Craig Martin (Oakland University, USA)

 

15:00
Mathematics, Aristotelianism and the Society of Jesus

Shin Higashi (Tokai University)


15:30

Coffee Break


16:00
Cardano, Fernel and Scaliger on the Soul
Kuni Sakamoto (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)


16:30
Aristotle in Renaissance Medical Debates

Hiro Hirai (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

17:00
Reception


Sunday, 20 July 2014

9:30
Opening

§ 2. Aristotle and Learning in Japan’s Christian Century

10:00
Early Catholic Missionary Work in Japan and Japanese Missions to Rome
Kenji Igawa (Seijo University)


10:30

Humanism, Platonism and Aristotelianism in Japan’s Christian Century
Ken Nejime (Gakushuin Women’s College)


11:00
Coffee Break


11:30
Not True but Good: Jesuit Proselytization in Early Modern Japan

Yoshimi Orii (Keio University)


12:00

Lunch Break


§ 3. Pedro Gomez and Cosmology

14:00
Western Cosmography from Roger Bacon to Gomez and Ricci

Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)


14:30
Cosmology and Jesuit Translations during Japan’s Christian Century

José Miguel Pinto Dos Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)


15:00
Coffee Break


15:30
Gomez’s De sphaera and Jesuit Cosmology in Japan

Ryuji Hiraoka (Prefectural University of Kumamoto)


16:00
A Classicist Looks at the Latin Manuscript of Gomez’s De sphaera

Aki Watanabe (Otsuma Women’s University)


17:15

Final Discussion


Aristotelian Traditions and Japan's Christian Century