Vives, Juan Luis

Vives, Juan Luis

▪ Spanish humanist

born March 6, 1492, Valencia, Aragon
died May 6, 1540, Bruges
 Spanish Humanist and student of Erasmus, eminent in education, philosophy, and psychology, who strongly opposed Scholasticism and emphasized induction as a method of inquiry.

      Vives left Spain at the age of 17 to avoid the Inquisition. After studies at Paris (1509–12), he was appointed professor of the humanities at Leuven (Louvain [1519]). Having dedicated his commentary (1522) on St. Augustine's De civitate Dei to Henry VIII of England, he went in 1523 to England, where he was appointed preceptor to Mary, princess of Wales, and lectured on philosophy at Oxford. In 1527 he forfeited Henry's favour by opposing the royal divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned for six weeks, after which he left England for The Netherlands to devote himself to writing.

      In education Vives achieved renown through such works as De ratione studii puerilis (completed 1523; “On the Right Method of Instruction for Children”) and De disciplinis libri xx (1531; “Twenty Books on Disciplines”), in which he advocated the use of the vernacular in schools, argued for the building of academies, and supported the education of women. Perhaps his greatest innovation was to recommend the study of nature for boys, applying the principle of induction from personal inquiry and experience that Erasmus had advocated for the study of Scripture and languages.

      Vives' claim to eminence in psychology and philosophical method rests on his De anima et vita libri tres (1538; “Three Books on the Soul and on Life”), in which he discusses the association of ideas, the nature of memory, and even animal psychology. The work somewhat anticipates the ideas of the great thinkers of the century following his death by its emphasis on induction as a method of psychological and philosophical discovery.

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