Iosipos Moesiodax – un dascăl din secolul al XVIII-lea și concepția sa privind cunoașterea
Iosipos Moesiodax – an 18th-century scholar and his view on knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The following article presents the life and work of Josip Moesiodax (1725–1800), a professor at the Princely Academies in Bucharest and Iasi in the latter part of the 18th century. Representative of the Enlightenment, Moesiodax encouraged the natural sciences and regarded the Neo-Aristotelianism that prevailed in the Balkan scholarship as the main source of stagnation of knowledge in the Ottoman Empire. He argued for the replacement of the Aristotelian metaphysics with mathematics as a basic discipline in school as well as for the simplification of scientific terminology. He is the author of Apology (1781) and Pedagogy (1779), two significant works of that age.

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