| Title | Twenty-Nine Hebrew Glosses on Averroes‘ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2017 |
| Journal | Aleph |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 335–353 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Metaphysics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Mauro Zonta |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Jewish engagement with Aristotle's Metaphysics in Hebrew began in the thirteenth century when the text was presented in Hebrew encyclopedias; it continued with a number of translations in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The study of Hebrew philosophical texts often resulted in supercommentaries on them. In this study I present a hitherto unnoticed work, preserved in a unique Oxford manuscript, that bears witness to the study of the Metaphysics. Consisting of twenty-nine short comments or glosses on key passages of Averroes' Middle Commentary on books Alpha minor and Beta, as well as two passages from the Middle Commentary on book Theta, it can be described as a kind of supercommentary on Averroes. The glosses as preserved in the manuscript were apparently collected by an unknown redactor from works of two or more authors, whom I try to identify. One of them may be R. Gershon, the father of Levi ben Gershon (1288–1344). An edition of the 29 glosses and, for comparison, several glosses on logic by R. Gershon, are also presented. |
| Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/aleph.17.2.0335 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.2979/aleph.17.2.0335 |
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| Title | La cuestión De aeternitate mundi en Averroes y los averroístas |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Spanish |
| Date | 2017 |
| Journal | Humanidades: Revista De La Universidad De Montevideo |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pages | 51-71. |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Cosmology, Averroism |
| Author(s) | Pilar Herraiz Oliva |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| En el siglo XIII, en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de París, surge el averroísmo como movimiento filosófico que defiende la autonomía de la filosofía y de la razón. Una de las polémicas más relevantes en este período es la que tiene que ver con el origen del mundo, cuestión que ya tratara Averroes y que tiene de fondo la propia concepción de la realidad. En este artículo desarrollaremos las distintas posiciones de los autores más relevantes de este movimiento con respecto a la tesis sobre la eternidad del mundo y cuestionaremos la existencia de una posición unánime en torno a la misma que pueda ser considerada averroísta como tal. |
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| Title | Des Mégariques aux Ashʿarites : le commentaire d’Averroès à Métaph. Θ 3 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2016 |
| Journal | Rursus |
| Volume | 9 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Metaphysics, Theology |
| Author(s) | Ziad Bou Akl |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In his commentary on Metaphysics IX 3, Averroes draws an analogy between the Megarian conception of dunamis, presented and refuted by Aristotle, and that of the Ashʿarites theologians. The study of the Arabic translation of lemmatas of Aristotle’s text (1047a26-28) and of the reformulation by Averroes of the third argument against the Megarians shows a shift commanded by theological issues: since the omnipotence of God can now bypass natural powers, the question of who possess the power should be added to that of its sole possession. |
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| Title | Dialecticians and Dialectics in Averroes’ Long Commentary on Gamma 2 of Aristotle’s Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2016 |
| Journal | Arabic Sciences and Philosophy |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161–184 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Metaphysics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Yehuda Halper |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| While Averroes’ work is often considered to represent the culmination of the method of Aristotelian demonstration in Arabic philosophy, a short passage of his Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Γ.2 emphasizes the prominence of dialectic and calls for a re-examination of dialectic and demonstration in Averroes’ philosophical works. In this passage Averroes describes dialectic as an acceptable form of philosophy and the dialectician as a kind of scientist. In putting dialectic and demonstration on an equal, or nearly equal footing, Averroes seems to go against his own account of the dialectical and demonstrative classes of people in the Decisive Treatise. Moreover, this interpretation of Metaphysics Γ.2 also contradicts Averroes’ explanation of the same passage in the Middle Commentary on the Metaphysics as well as Aristotle's own description of dialectic throughout the Metaphysics. That is, in the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, Averroes departs from his earlier views, and describes dialectic as a necessary part of metaphysics, even though the centrality of dialectic argumentation could call into question the entire project of metaphysics and consequently of the sciences whose demonstrations rely on metaphysical ground, i.e., all sciences. Averroes does not emphasize this view, but its presence is nevertheless unambiguous. |
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| Title | Dialecticians and dialectics in Averroes' Long Commentary on Gamma 2 of Aristotle's Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2016 |
| Journal | Arabic Sciences and Philosophy |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-184 |
| Categories | Dialectic, Aristotle, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Yehuda Halper |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| While Averroes’ work is often considered to represent the culmination of the method of Aristotelian demonstration in Arabic philosophy, a short passage of his Long Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Γ.2 emphasizes the prominence of dialectic and calls for a re-examination of dialectic and demonstration in Averroes’ philosophical works. In this passage Averroes describes dialectic as an acceptable form of philosophy and the dialectician as a kind of scientist. In putting dialectic and demonstration on an equal, or nearly equal footing, Averroes seems to go against his own account of the dialectical and demonstrative classes of people in the Decisive Treatise. Moreover, this interpretation of Metaphysics Γ.2 also contradicts Averroes’ explanation of the same passage in the Middle Commentary on the Metaphysics as well as Aristotle's own description of dialectic throughout the Metaphysics. That is, in the Long Commentary on the Metaphysics, Averroes departs from his earlier views, and describes dialectic as a necessary part of metaphysics, even though the centrality of dialectic argumentation could call into question the entire project of metaphysics and consequently of the sciences whose demonstrations rely on metaphysical ground, i.e., all sciences. Averroes does not emphasize this view, but its presence is nevertheless unambiguous. |
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| Title | Abraham Bibago on Intellectual Conjunction and Human Happiness, Faith and Metaphysics according to a 15th century Jewish Averroist |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Quaestio |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 309–318 |
| Categories | Averroism, Jewish Averroism, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Yehuda Halper |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The 15th century Jewish Aragonian thinker, Abraham Bibago treats conjunction in his two main works, Derekh Emunah (“The Way of Faith”) and Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In the former, which explicitly interprets Biblical and Talmudic stories along philosophical lines, Bibago promotes a neo-Platonic intellectual emanation schema and boldly asserts that human happiness is attained through conjunction with higher intellects. In the Commentary, which primarily treats Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Averroes’ commentaries on it, Bibago gives an account of conjunction that does not necessarily fit with the intellectual conjunction of Derekh Emunah. Indeed, his remarks in the Commentary are much less decisive about human happiness, suggesting that Bibago qua philosopher is more open minded about the summum bonum than he is qua religious thinker. |
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| Title | Averroes and Aquinas on the Agent Intellect’s Causation of the Intelligible |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1–60 |
| Categories | Thomas, Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Therese Scarpelli Cory |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article examines two medieval thinkers – Averroes and Aquinas – on the kind of causation exercised by the agent intellect in 'abstracting' or producing intelligibles from images in the imagination. It argues that abstraction in these thinkers should be interpreted in causal terms, as an act whereby images in the imagination, through the power of the agent intellect, educe their intelligible likeness in a receptive intellect. This Averroean-Thomistic causal approach to abstraction offers an intriguing alternative to the usual approach to abstraction as an epistemological content-sorting. The article also demonstrates the extensive common ground uniting these thinkers’ cognition theories, despite Aquinas’s well-known rejection of Averroes’s theory of separate Intellects. |
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| Title | A Comparative study of the theory of dual reality from the perspective of Averroes, followers of Averroes and the church of the thirteenth century |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Persian |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Comparative Theology |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 69-84 |
| Categories | Epistemology, Averroism, Theology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Ali Ghorbani , Fath ali Akbari |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In the thirteenth century, along with the return of the European thinkers and philosophers to Aristotelian philosophy and the emergence of the contradiction between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian teachings and religious beliefs, the church put forward a theory known as dual reality. According to this theory everything that is true in theology, its opposite can also be true in philosophy. With this theory, the church accused the philosophers of heresy, while the followers of Averroes considered themselves free of this charge. In his book Faṣl al-maqāl, Averroes appeared to be in favor of the above mentioned theory in a different form. By a precise analysis of the theory through reviewing the now available sources and considering the events followed by attributing this view to the philosophers, one can infer different implications from the theory from the perspective of each of the three sides involved (i.e. Averroes, followers of Averroes and church) and the following division can be sketched: 1- ontological implications: that is to believe in the existence of two types of realities in the universe which can be described in two ways: A) two contradictory scopes in the universe B) two distinct scopes in the universe. 2- Epistemological implications of the dual reality: A) Two ways to reach one reality. B) Two dictions to narrate one reality. C) Duality of the reality in practice. D) Two levels of one single reality. By analyzing each of these implications of the dual reality, one can be led to some consequences according to which based on different works of Averroes he cannot be accused of believing in a kind of duality which makes him deserve heresy. |
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| Title | Descartes's Revised Averroism |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | The Review of Metaphysics |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 769-789 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Timothy Sean Quinn |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | A reference to al-Fârâbî’s Kitâb al-hurûf in Averroes’ critique of Avicenna (Tahâfut al-Tahâfut, 371,5-372,12 Bouyges) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Studi Magrebini |
| Volume | 12-13 |
| Pages | 433-452 |
| Categories | al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Cecilia Martini Bonadeo |
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| Translator(s) |
| Al-Fārābī’s Book of Letters (Kitāb al-ḥurūf) and the analyses devoted in this text to the terminology of “being” are authoritative references for Averroes from the epitomes of his youth to his mature treatises. Also the Farabian doctrine of the conventionality of the natural language plays a role in Averroes’ thought. This paper discusses the Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, (pp.371,5-372.12 Bouyges), where Averroes has recourse to the Book of Letters in criticizing Avicenna’s distinction between essence and existence. Averroes explicitly mentions the title of the work and recalls a passage from the fifteenth chapter. This passage had already inspired him in the Epitome on Metaphysics, where Averroes did not mention explicitly his source, but followed in al-Fārābī’s footsteps as for the analysis of the uses of “being”. Averroes uses tacitly the same passage also in his Commentary on Metaphysics Delta 7. |
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| Title | Averroes and the Teleological Argument |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Religious Studies |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 405–428 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Taneli Kukkonen |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/20008434 |
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| Title | Averroes and the Theory of Emanation |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1981 |
| Journal | Mediaeval Studies |
| Volume | 43 |
| Pages | 384–404 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Barry S. Kogan |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes on God's Knowledge of Being Qua Being |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1994 |
| Journal | Anaquel de estudios árabes |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 39–57 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Thérèse-Anne Druart |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes on God's Knowledge of Particulars |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Journal | Journal of Islamic Studies |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177–199 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Catarina Belo |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This article discusses a central issue in the debate between philosophy and theology in the Islamic Middle Ages. In his attempt to show that Greek philosophy was contrary to Islam, theologian al-Ghazzālī charged Muslim philosophers with unbelief (kufr) on three counts: the eternity of the world, bodily resurrection and God's knowledge of particulars. The latter was particularly significant within an Islamic context. If God does not know particulars, how can He know for instance individual prophets or pass judgement on Doomsday? The main target of al-Ghazālī's criticism was Avicenna and his contention that God knows particulars in a universal way. In the Aristotelian epistemological model followed by Avicenna the subject and object of knowledge become one in the epistemological process. Since God is immutable He cannot know particulars in time, therefore He must know individuals insofar as they are universal.In his response to al-Ghazzālī, Averroes' main contribution is his rejection of Avicenna's formulation that God knows particulars in a universal way. Averroes criticizes this view because it does away with the distinction between divine and human knowledge. While in humans the process of knowing entails abstraction of universals from individual substances, God's knowledge cannot be characterized as universal or particular. It is neither particular—because it does not involve sense experience—nor universal—because it is not abstracted from individuals.Consequently, Averroes presents the essence of God's knowledge as at bottom unknowable to the human mind. This position may resemble al-Ghazzālī's overall negative stance concerning our understanding of this issue but in actuality it is radically different. By way of stating what it is not, and by clearly showing the differences between divine and human knowledge, Averroes provides a clearer grasp of what divine knowledge must be like. |
| Online Access | ttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26199485 |
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| Title | Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1998 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Philosophy |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507–523 |
| Categories | Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes on the Doctrine of Genus as Matter |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Journal | Documenti e Studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale |
| Volume | 15 |
| Pages | 255–285 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Logic |
| Author(s) | Matteo Di Giovanni |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes on the Metaphysics of Aristotle |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1909 |
| Journal | The Philosophical Review |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 416-428 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Metaphysics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Isaac Husik |
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| Title | Averroes' De Caelo Ibn Rushd's Cosmology in his Commentaries on Aristotle's On the Heavens |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1995 |
| Journal | Arabic Sciences and Philosophy |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9 - 49 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, De caelo, Cosmology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Gerhard Endress |
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| Averroes defended philosophy by returning to the true Aristotle. For this purpose, Aristotle's book “On the Heaven,” in which he explained the eternity, uniqueness and movement of the universe, occupied a place of special importance. But the Aristotelian philosopher had a hard time holding his own in the face of contradictions within the book and with respect to Aristotle's later works. In his early Compendium, later Paraphrase, and final Long Commentary of De Caelo, Ibn Rushd continued the efforts of the Hellenistic commentators in order to integrate all the elements of his doctrine into a unified system, to harmonize his early cosmology with his later Metaphysics – the early doctrine of natural movement of the elements, and of the self-moving star-souls (a Platonic element), with the doctrine of potency and actuality and the theory of the First Mover – and to uphold his models of homocentric planetary spheres against the mathematical paradigm of Ptolemaic astronomy. By insisting throughout on demonstrative arguments based on rational principles, he asserted the philosophers' claim to irrefutable truth. |
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| Title | Averroes. El 'proemio' de su comentario al libro Lambda de la 'Metafísica |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Spanish |
| Date | 1996 |
| Pages | 275–295 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Rafael Ramón Guerrero |
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| Title | Averroes’ Rewrite of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ: Establishing the Plain Meaning of the Text in the Middle Commentary |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Journal | Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259–281 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Yehuda Halper |
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| Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ provides a rewrite of Aristotle’s text that was apparently intended to convey the plain meaning of the text to a general, though at least somewhat educated, audience. Such a commentary was necessary because ᾿Usṭāṯ’s ninth-century Arabic translation was insufficient in many respects for conveying Aristotle’s ideas into Arabic. Accordingly, Averroes’ Middle Commentary sought to rephrase and rewrite the text in such a way as to clarify the text, correct apparent errors in it, simplify the text, and add short explanations to it. This article offers a philological characterization of the Middle Commentary that should be an aid for reading the text and comparing it with other commentaries, especially Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ. |
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