The paper discusses several issues concerning Sebastian Petrycy’s translation and commentary
on Nichomachean Ethics: the influence of Paduan Aristotelianism on Petrycy’s actual
form of the commentary and its relationship with F. Piccolomini’s Universa philosophia de
moribus; debates on academic Aristotelianism; and on the via S. Thomae relationship to
the ideas discussed by Petrycy and that which was of major interest to the Polish renaissance
humanists (e.g. nobility and fortune).
keywords in English:
Aristotelianism, Sebastian Petrycy, ethics, Aristotle, renaissance moral philosophy, Nichomachean Ethics