Walter Burley's "Physics" Commentaries and the Mathematics of Alteration, 2001
By: Edith Dudley Sylla
Title Walter Burley's "Physics" Commentaries and the Mathematics of Alteration
Type Article
Language English
Date 2001
Journal Early Science and Medicine,
Volume 6
Issue 3
Pages 149-184
Categories Commentary, Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Physics
Author(s) Edith Dudley Sylla
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Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void, 1997
By: Ruth Glasner
Title Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void
Type Article
Language English
Date 1997
Journal Science in Context
Volume 10
Issue 3
Pages 453-470
Categories Tradition and Reception, Commentary
Author(s) Ruth Glasner
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Translator(s)
It was commonly accepted in the middle ages that void within or outside the world is impossible. The paper presents a quite unusual conception of void, which is described in Yeda'aya ha-Penini's commentary on Ibn Rushd's epitome on Aristotle's Physics. According to this conception there is a thin layer of void between the water and the inner surface of the container. Ha-Penini describes two versions of this conception. According to one version this void layer is three-dimensional but thin, according to the other it is two-dimensional. The first part of the paper shows how ha-Penini “corrects” the text of Ibn Rushd, putting into it ideas which were unknown to Ibn Rushd. It is argued that, though the two views are rejected by Ibn Rushd, ha-Penini himself partly accepts (his version of) these views. The second part of the paper argues that ha-Penini could not have found these views in the Arabic-Hebrew tradition, and it seems that he relied on Christian sources. If this is indeed so, the paper presents an example of acquaintance of Hebrew scholars in southern France with Scholastic science in the first half of the fourteenth century.

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TOWARD UNDERSTANDING AQUINAS' COM. "IN DE ANIMA": A comparative study of Aquinas and Averroes on the definition of soul ("De Anima" B, 1-2), 1974
By: James C. Doig
Title TOWARD UNDERSTANDING AQUINAS' COM. "IN DE ANIMA": A comparative study of Aquinas and Averroes on the definition of soul ("De Anima" B, 1-2)
Type Article
Language English
Date 1974
Journal Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica
Volume 66
Issue 2/4
Pages 436-474
Categories De anima, Commentary, Aquinas, Influence, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) James C. Doig
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Aristotle's "Poetics" in the Fourteenth Century, 1970
By: William F. Boggess
Title Aristotle's "Poetics" in the Fourteenth Century
Type Article
Language English
Date 1970
Journal Studies in Philology
Volume 67
Issue 3
Pages 278-294
Categories Aristotle, Poetics, Commentary, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) William F. Boggess
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Averroes als Aristoteleskommentator, 1964
By: Helmut Gätje
Title Averroes als Aristoteleskommentator
Type Article
Language German
Date 1964
Journal Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
Volume 114
Pages 59–65
Categories Aristotle, Commentary, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Helmut Gätje
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Motion in the Void and the Principle of Inertia in the Middle Ages, 1964
By: Edward Grant
Title Motion in the Void and the Principle of Inertia in the Middle Ages
Type Article
Language English
Date 1964
Journal Isis
Volume 55
Issue 3
Pages 265-292
Categories Aristotle, Physics, Commentary, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Edward Grant
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An unpublished late thirteenth-century commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, 1959
By: Kimon Giocarinis
Title An unpublished late thirteenth-century commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
Type Article
Language English
Date 1959
Journal Traditio
Volume 15
Pages 299-326
Categories Aristotle, Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Kimon Giocarinis
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De elementis traditionalibus justitiae in primaeva schola franciscana, 1950
By: Hermenegildos Lio
Title De elementis traditionalibus justitiae in primaeva schola franciscana
Type Article
Language Latin
Date 1950
Journal Franciscan Studies
Volume 10
Issue 2
Pages 164-185
Categories Ethics, Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Commentary
Author(s) Hermenegildos Lio
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Trois commentaires "Averroistes" sur l'Ethique a Nicomaque, 1948
By: René Antoine Gauthier
Title Trois commentaires "Averroistes" sur l'Ethique a Nicomaque
Type Article
Language French
Date 1948
Journal Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age
Volume 16
Issue 1947-1948
Pages 187-336
Categories Commentary, Aristotle, Ethics, Nicomachean ethics, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) René Antoine Gauthier
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Motion in the Void and the Principle of Inertia in the Middle Ages, 1964
By: Edward Grant
Title Motion in the Void and the Principle of Inertia in the Middle Ages
Type Article
Language English
Date 1964
Journal Isis
Volume 55
Issue 3
Pages 265-292
Categories Aristotle, Physics, Commentary, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Edward Grant
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages, 2002
By: Ruth Glasner
Title On Gersonides' Knowledge of Languages
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Aleph
Volume 2
Pages 235-257
Categories Gersonides, Commentary, Averroism, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Ruth Glasner
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Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective, 2012
By: Ahuva Gaziel
Title Questions of Methodology in Aristotle’s Zoology: A Medieval Perspective
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Journal of the History of Biology
Volume 45
Issue 2
Pages 329–352
Categories Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Commentary, Gersonides
Author(s) Ahuva Gaziel
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During the Middle Ages Aristotle’s treatises were accessible to intellectuals via translations and commentaries. Among his works on natural philosophy, the zoological books received relatively little scholarly attention, though several medieval commentators carefully studied Aristotle’s investigations of the animal kingdom. Averroes completed in 1169 a commentary on an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals and Generation of Animals. In 1323 Gersonides completed his supercommentary on a Hebrew translation of Averroes’ commentary. This article examines how these two medieval commentators interpret the first book of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals, at the center of which stand methodological questions regarding the study of animals. Aristotle’s discussion of classification is presented by Averroes and Gersonides in light of an epistemological debate concerning the requisite method for scientific inquiries and discoveries. Sense perception is contrasted with rational reasoning, and ultimately a combined method is proposed, sense perception maintaining supremacy. These commentators outline a clear link between the systematic arrangement of animal species as offered by Aristotle, and his subsequent logical demonstrations which, according to them, form the core of biological investigations.

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TOWARD UNDERSTANDING AQUINAS' COM. "IN DE ANIMA": A comparative study of Aquinas and Averroes on the definition of soul ("De Anima" B, 1-2), 1974
By: James C. Doig
Title TOWARD UNDERSTANDING AQUINAS' COM. "IN DE ANIMA": A comparative study of Aquinas and Averroes on the definition of soul ("De Anima" B, 1-2)
Type Article
Language English
Date 1974
Journal Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica
Volume 66
Issue 2/4
Pages 436-474
Categories De anima, Commentary, Aquinas, Influence, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) James C. Doig
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The medieval Islamic commentary on Plato’s republic: Ibn Rushd’s perspective on the position and potential of women, 2021
By: Tineke Melkebeek
Title The medieval Islamic commentary on Plato’s republic: Ibn Rushd’s perspective on the position and potential of women
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal Islamology
Volume 11
Issue 1
Pages 9-23
Categories Commentary, Plato, Politics, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Tineke Melkebeek
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Translator(s)
This paper investigates the twelfth-century commentary on Plato’s Republic by the Andalusian Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes). Ibn Rushd is considered to be the only Muslim philosopher who commented on the Republic. Written around 375 BC, Plato’s Republic discusses the order and character of a just city-state and contains revolutionary ideas on the position and qualities of women, which remained contested also in Ibn Rushd’s time. This Muslim philosopher is primarily known as the most esteemed commentator of Aristotle. However, for the lack of an Arabic translation of Aristotle’s Politics, Ibn Rushd commented on the political theory of Aristotle’s teacher, i.e. Plato’s Republic, instead. In his commentary, Ibn Rushd juxtaposes examples from Plato’s context and those from contemporary Muslim societies. Notably, when he diverges from the text, he does not drift off toward more patriarchal, Aristotelian interpretations. On the contrary, he argues that women are capable of being rulers and philosophers, that their true competencies remain unknown as long as they are deprived of education, and that this situation is detrimental to the flourishing of the city. This article aims to critically analyse Ibn Rushd’s statements on the position of women, as well as their reception in scholarly literature.

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Thomas d'Aquin lecteur critique du Grand Commentaire d'Averroès à Phys. I, 1, 2009
By: Cristina Cerami
Title Thomas d'Aquin lecteur critique du Grand Commentaire d'Averroès à Phys. I, 1
Type Article
Language French
Date 2009
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 19
Issue 2
Pages 189–223
Categories Thomas, Commentary, Physics, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Cristina Cerami
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The present article aims to provide a reconstruction of the interpretation offered by Thomas Aquinas of the cognitive process described at the beginning of Aristotle's Physics and of his criticism of Averroes' interpretation. It expounds to this end the exegesis of ancient Greek commentators who opened the debate on this question; then, it puts forward a reconstruction of Aquinas' doctrine by means of other texts of his corpus, as well as an explanation of his criticism of Averroes' exegesis; it finally reconstructs Averroes' interpretation worked out in his Great Commentary to Phys. I, 1, in order to show that Aquinas' disapproval is partly due to an incorrect interpretation of Averroes' divisio textus of Phys. I, 1. It suggests as well that, concerning some fundamental points, Aquinas' exegesis doesn't diverge from the interpretation proposed by Averroes.

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Trois commentaires "Averroistes" sur l'Ethique a Nicomaque, 1948
By: René Antoine Gauthier
Title Trois commentaires "Averroistes" sur l'Ethique a Nicomaque
Type Article
Language French
Date 1948
Journal Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age
Volume 16
Issue 1947-1948
Pages 187-336
Categories Commentary, Aristotle, Ethics, Nicomachean ethics, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) René Antoine Gauthier
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Walter Burley's "Physics" Commentaries and the Mathematics of Alteration, 2001
By: Edith Dudley Sylla
Title Walter Burley's "Physics" Commentaries and the Mathematics of Alteration
Type Article
Language English
Date 2001
Journal Early Science and Medicine,
Volume 6
Issue 3
Pages 149-184
Categories Commentary, Aristotle, Tradition and Reception, Physics
Author(s) Edith Dudley Sylla
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Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void, 1997
By: Ruth Glasner
Title Yeda'aya ha-Penini's Unusual Conception of Void
Type Article
Language English
Date 1997
Journal Science in Context
Volume 10
Issue 3
Pages 453-470
Categories Tradition and Reception, Commentary
Author(s) Ruth Glasner
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Translator(s)
It was commonly accepted in the middle ages that void within or outside the world is impossible. The paper presents a quite unusual conception of void, which is described in Yeda'aya ha-Penini's commentary on Ibn Rushd's epitome on Aristotle's Physics. According to this conception there is a thin layer of void between the water and the inner surface of the container. Ha-Penini describes two versions of this conception. According to one version this void layer is three-dimensional but thin, according to the other it is two-dimensional. The first part of the paper shows how ha-Penini “corrects” the text of Ibn Rushd, putting into it ideas which were unknown to Ibn Rushd. It is argued that, though the two views are rejected by Ibn Rushd, ha-Penini himself partly accepts (his version of) these views. The second part of the paper argues that ha-Penini could not have found these views in the Arabic-Hebrew tradition, and it seems that he relied on Christian sources. If this is indeed so, the paper presents an example of acquaintance of Hebrew scholars in southern France with Scholastic science in the first half of the fourteenth century.

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