Ibn Rušd on the Structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics, 2010
By: Rüdiger Arnzen
Title Ibn Rušd on the Structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 21
Pages 375–410
Categories Metaphysics, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias
Author(s) Rüdiger Arnzen
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The structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics was a matter of dispute among ancient and Medieval Greek, Arabic, and Latin-writing commentators. The present article investigates the question in which way the Arab philosopher Averroes dealt with this problem in his so-called Epitome and his literal commentary on the Metaphysics. It tries to show that in the Epitome Averroes restructured the contents of the Metaphysics according to his own conception of this discipline, and that this conception was partly indebted to his own main sources, al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā, partly independent from these. Furthemore, the article examines whether and, if so, in which whay Averroes changed his mind about metaphysics as such and/or the structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics in his late literal commentary. It is argued that Averroes discarded there some of his earlier Avicennian positions in favour of a certain rapprochement to positions held by Alexander of Aphrodisias, but never gave up in general his overall conception of the Metaphysics as displayed in the Epitome.

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On the Nature and Fate of Chapter V of Ibn Rushd's Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics, 2008
By: Rüdiger Arnzen
Title On the Nature and Fate of Chapter V of Ibn Rushd's Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2008
Published in Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in Honour of Hans Daiber
Pages 43–58
Categories Metaphysics
Author(s) Rüdiger Arnzen
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Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis. ex recognitione Francis Carmody in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen. Editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress, 2003
By: Averroes, Francis James Carmody (Ed.), Rüdiger Arnzen (Ed.), Gerhard Endress (Ed.)
Title Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis. ex recognitione Francis Carmody in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen. Editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress
Type Monograph
Language undefined
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Publication Place Leuven
Publisher Peeters
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Volume 4
Categories Cosmology
Author(s) Averroes , Francis James Carmody , Rüdiger Arnzen , Gerhard Endress
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Averrois Cordubensis Commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis, 2003
By: Averroes, Rüdiger Arnzen (Ed.), Francis James Carmody (Ed.)
Title Averrois Cordubensis Commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2003
Publication Place Louvain
Publisher Peeters
Categories Cosmology, Commentary
Author(s) Averroes , Rüdiger Arnzen , Francis James Carmody
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Averrois Cordubensis Commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis, 2003
By: Averroes, Rüdiger Arnzen (Ed.), Francis James Carmody (Ed.)
Title Averrois Cordubensis Commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2003
Publication Place Louvain
Publisher Peeters
Categories Cosmology, Commentary
Author(s) Averroes , Rüdiger Arnzen , Francis James Carmody
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Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis. ex recognitione Francis Carmody in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen. Editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress, 2003
By: Averroes, Francis James Carmody (Ed.), Rüdiger Arnzen (Ed.), Gerhard Endress (Ed.)
Title Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis. ex recognitione Francis Carmody in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen. Editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2003
Publication Place Leuven
Publisher Peeters
Series Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales
Volume 4
Categories Cosmology
Author(s) Averroes , Francis James Carmody , Rüdiger Arnzen , Gerhard Endress
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Ibn Rušd on the Structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics, 2010
By: Rüdiger Arnzen
Title Ibn Rušd on the Structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 21
Pages 375–410
Categories Metaphysics, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias
Author(s) Rüdiger Arnzen
Publisher(s)
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The structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics was a matter of dispute among ancient and Medieval Greek, Arabic, and Latin-writing commentators. The present article investigates the question in which way the Arab philosopher Averroes dealt with this problem in his so-called Epitome and his literal commentary on the Metaphysics. It tries to show that in the Epitome Averroes restructured the contents of the Metaphysics according to his own conception of this discipline, and that this conception was partly indebted to his own main sources, al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā, partly independent from these. Furthemore, the article examines whether and, if so, in which whay Averroes changed his mind about metaphysics as such and/or the structure of Aristotle's Metaphysics in his late literal commentary. It is argued that Averroes discarded there some of his earlier Avicennian positions in favour of a certain rapprochement to positions held by Alexander of Aphrodisias, but never gave up in general his overall conception of the Metaphysics as displayed in the Epitome.

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On the Nature and Fate of Chapter V of Ibn Rushd's Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics, 2008
By: Rüdiger Arnzen
Title On the Nature and Fate of Chapter V of Ibn Rushd's Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2008
Published in Islamic Thought in the Middle Ages. Studies in Text, Transmission and Translation, in Honour of Hans Daiber
Pages 43–58
Categories Metaphysics
Author(s) Rüdiger Arnzen
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