| Title | Ibn Rushd’s Middle Commentary on the Poetics, or the Ethical Education |
| Type | Article |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2024 |
| Journal | Journal of Islamic Ethics |
| Pages | 1 - 25 |
| Categories | Poetics, Ethics, Logic |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In his Talkhīṣ Kitāb Arisṭūṭālīs fī l-Shiʿr (“Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics”) Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 595/1198) strictly defines poetic statements (al-aqāwīl al-shiʿriyya) as imaginative (mutakhayyila) statements that imitate the good and the evil, and aim at inciting people to virtue and deterring them from vice. Yet the traces of the Aristotelian ethical doctrine in this Commentary are not restricted to this link to virtue ethics, as the entire text follows at different levels the division between virtue/vice and good/evil. Ibn Rushd also refers to the teaching of ethics when discussing the object of poetic imitation (al-tashbīh wa-l-muḥākāt), the different natures he distinguishes among poets, and the genres of panegyric (madīḥ) and satire (hijāʾ). However, recent scholarship tends to view the Poetics in the Islamic context as a fundamentally logical treatise. Following the Alexandrian tradition, the falāsifa sought, at least since al-Fārābī (d. 339/950), to justify and explain the position of the Poetics in the Organon by defining, for example, the logical and psychological mechanisms of the poetical syllogism. More specifically, philosophers drew parallels between the role of imagination (takhayyul) in the poetical context and the role of assent or conviction (taṣdīq) in the other logical arts, and in particular in the Rhetoric (al-Khiṭāba). The purpose of this contribution is to demonstrate that the Poetics, according to Ibn Rushd, is a treatise that combines logic and ethics and determines in that respect the conditions and the rules of a practical education of the citizens. Like the rhetoric whose political value was already determined, poetics also plays a role in defining the nature and the content of the poetical statements that are to be employed in order to encourage people to virtuous actions – that is, the very condition for a virtuous political, and thus, a happy life. Straddling between logic and ethics, poetry is therefore fundamentally political. |
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| Title | Some Observations on Prudence (gr. φρόνησις, ar. taʿaqqul) in Book VI of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2022 |
| Published in | Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy |
| Pages | 101 - 126 |
| Categories | Nicomachean ethics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther , Saloua Chatti |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The following contribution aims at giving a brief overview of the way in which Averroes conceives the notion of prudence (gr. φρόνησις, ar. taʿaqqul) in his Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics. As Averroes’ Commentary is now lost in its original Arabic version (apart from some thirty fragments preserved in the margins of the Unicum of Fez), we offer here for the first time a critical edition (from the two main Latin witnesses O et T) of the passages of Book VI of this Commentary that are dedicated to the notion of prudence. These passages are presented in their Latin version and translated into English and are the following: I. ad NE VI 5, 1140a 24-30; II. ad NE VI 7, 1141a 20-1141b 2; III. ad NE VI 7-8, 1141b 8-1142a 30; IV. ad NE VI 11-13, 1143a 25-1145a 11. Alhtough a comprehensive treatment of the notion of prudence in Averroes’ Commentary on the Ethics would require more steps (a collation of the Hebrew version of Averroes’ Commentary, including the secondary witnesses of the Latin tradition; a close comparison of the Greek version of Aristotle with the Hebrew and Latin translations of Averroes; and other passages of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Averroes’ Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics where the notion of prudence is mentioned), the comparison of Aristotle’s text with the corresponding passages in the Latin version of Averroes’ Commentary allows us to make two remarks: first, the almost systematic substitution of the notion of prudence (prudentia / taʿaqqul) for the notion of intellect (intellectum / ʿaql); second, whereas Aristotle defines prudence as a deliberative disposition that belongs to the (practical) realm of action, Averroes sees in it only a deliberative disposition, which is well below the notion of wisdom that he introduces, it seems, as the one and only disposition with the status of a virtue of thought. Therefore, it seems that, in regard to this point, Averroes departs from Aristotle. The Graeco-Arabic version of the Nicomachean Ethics may have partly affected this interpretation of prudence, which is subordinated to theoretical wisdom if we put aside the fact that the Arabic term taʿaqqul—which translates the Greek φρόνησις—derives from the root ʿ-q-l, which refers to reason. [...] |
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These passages are presented in their Latin version and translated into English and are the following: I. ad NE VI 5, 1140a 24-30; II. ad NE VI 7, 1141a 20-1141b 2; III. ad NE VI 7-8, 1141b 8-1142a 30; IV. ad NE VI 11-13, 1143a 25-1145a 11.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAlhtough a comprehensive treatment of the notion of prudence in Averroes\u2019 Commentary on the Ethics would require more steps (a collation of the Hebrew version of Averroes\u2019 Commentary, including the secondary witnesses of the Latin tradition; a close comparison of the Greek version of Aristotle with the Hebrew and Latin translations of Averroes; and other passages of Aristotle\u2019s Nicomachean Ethics and Averroes\u2019 Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics where the notion of prudence is mentioned), the comparison of Aristotle\u2019s text with the corresponding passages in the Latin version of Averroes\u2019 Commentary allows us to make two remarks: first, the almost systematic substitution of the notion of prudence (prudentia \/ ta\u02bfaqqul) for the notion of intellect (intellectum \/ \u02bfaql); second, whereas Aristotle defines prudence as a deliberative disposition that belongs to the (practical) realm of action, Averroes sees in it only a deliberative disposition, which is well below the notion of wisdom that he introduces, it seems, as the one and only disposition with the status of a virtue of thought. 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| Title | ‘...donc le bonheur ne réside pas dans le jeu’: Quelques brèves remarques sur le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque, X, 6 |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2021 |
| Published in | The Pursuit of Happiness in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought. Studies Dedicated to Steven Harvey |
| Pages | 215–226 |
| Categories | Commentary, Ethics, Aristotle |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Les fragments arabes du Commentaire moyen d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2019 |
| Journal | Oriens |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 244–312 |
| Categories | Commentary, Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics, Ethics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes’s Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Published in | Phantasia in Aristotle’s Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions |
| Pages | 37–64 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Transmission |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes’ Goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Published in | Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays |
| Pages | 218–236 |
| Categories | Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Politics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
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| A study of Averroes' paraphrase commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, which is preserved only in Hebrew and Latin. Averroes here explores the relationship between ethics and political philosophy and identifies a theoretical strand within ethics, in order to show that practical philosophy is a proper science. |
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| Title | Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Present / Commenter la Rhétorique d’Aristote, de l’Antiquité à la période contemporaine |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | International Studies in the History of Rhetoric |
| Volume | 11 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Modern Readings, Tradition and Reception, Rhetoric |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The present volume brings together thirteen articles as so many chapters of a book, devoted to the history, methods, and practices of the commentaries that have been written on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Examining both the linguistic and factual background, these contributions attempt to insert each of the commentaries into its particular historical, political, social, philosophical, and pedagogical context. The historical periods and geographical areas that arise – from Greco-Roman antiquity to Heidegger’s philosophy, from the Syriac and Arabic traditions to the Western world – make it possible, in sum, not only to indicate how the Rhetoric has been read and interpreted, but also to offer general perspectives on the practice of explicating ancient texts. |
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| Title | Le Plaisir, le bonheur et l’acquisition des vertus |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies |
| Volume | 108 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Averroes , Frédérique Woerther , |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| This volume contains the first edition of the Latin version of the Middle Commentary of Averroes on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book X, the original arabic version being lost. It is accompanied by an annotated French translation. The volume also contains a full study of the manuscript tradition of the Latin text and sets outs the principles used in the edition, which takes into account, where necessary, the Hebrew version of the Commentary. Two further studies complete the volume: the first is devoted to the genre of “Middle Commentary” (talḫīṣ); the second considers how Averroes uses an analogy with medicine to place ethics at the heart of practical philosophy, and how, in a manner that is foreign to Aristotle, he conceives of ethics as a “science.” |
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| Title | Le statut «scientifique» de l’éthique d’après le Commentaire moyen d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque d’Aristote |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2018 |
| Journal | Oriens |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | No. 3/4 |
| Pages | 332–367 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Nicomachean ethics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Following an exegetical method similar to the one used two years earlier in his Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Averroes usually stays very close to the Arabic version of the Nicomachean Ethics in his Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. For he mostly reproduces Aristotle’s text without reformulating it. When necessary he nonetheless deletes the most obscure passages and develops those requiring more explanation, adding examples and replacing some terms with other terms, usually technical ones. By doing so, Averroes gives the ten Books of Aristotle’s treatise a greater unity and coherence. One of the commonest modifications that Averroes introduced in the Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics on the microstructural level is the use of the term scientia/ ḥokhma to refer to the content of the Ethics, whereas Aristotle’s text had no specific word for this. Likewise, Averroes makes clear in the first lines of his Commentary on the Republic that the discursive mode he is going to follow is the mode of scientific or theoretical arguments, not dialectical arguments. Hence, bestowing the status of a «science» on ethics (and on politics) clearly seems problematic – from a strictly Aristotelian perspective at any rate. This contribution seeks to understand, from Books I and X of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, how the «scientific» status of ethics shall be understood, by observing in particular the inscription of the Ethics in the knowledge system as Averroes conceives it, and by raising the question of the addressee of his Middle Commentary, who obviously is no longer the Aristotelian figure of the legislator ἐπιειϰής. |
| Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/26572345 |
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| Title | Citer/traduire. La traduction arabo-latine de la Rhétorique d’Aristote par Hermann l’Allemand et les citations d’al-Fârâbî et Averroès |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2017 |
| Journal | Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 177–218 |
| Categories | Aristotle, al-Fārābī, Tradition and Reception, Rhetoric |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes' Middle Commentary on Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Oriens |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 254-287 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Steven Harvey , Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The conventional view of the previous century that Averroes’ middle commentaries (talāḫīṣ) on Aristotle are all of the same form and style is no longer tenable. A full and accurate account of the similarities and differences among Averroes’ talāḫīṣ on Aristotle must consider all of them. Perhaps the least studied and least known of these middle commentaries is the one on the Nicomachean Ethics, a text which is extant today only in a critically edited medieval Hebrew translation and an as yet unedited medieval Latin translation. The two authors of the present article have each studied chapters of this commentary independently of each other and have reached different conclusions concerning its value. In this article they present a careful examination of the first book of Averroes’ commentary via its Hebrew translation and Latin translation (primarily through the two oldest and most reliable manuscripts of it) in comparison with the medieval Arabic translation of the Nicomachean Ethics that was used by Averroes (and in light of Aristotle’s Greek text). This study shows an Averroean middle commentary that is not very original and not particularly helpful, especially, for example, when compared to the quite different middle commentaries on Aristotle’s books on natural science. Indeed, he often seems to do little more than copy—not even paraphrase—the Arabic translation. On the other hand, Averroes does not hesitate to insert words as he copies in order to make the text clearer and easier to understand. Where lengthier explanations are needed, they too are attempted, at times in response to problematic translations in the Arabic text before him. |
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| Title | Averroes’ Goals in the Paraphrase (Middle Commentary) of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Published in | Interpreting Averroes. Critical Essays |
| Pages | 218–236 |
| Categories | Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Politics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| A study of Averroes' paraphrase commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, which is preserved only in Hebrew and Latin. Averroes here explores the relationship between ethics and political philosophy and identifies a theoretical strand within ethics, in order to show that practical philosophy is a proper science. |
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| Title | Averroes’s Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Published in | Phantasia in Aristotle’s Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions |
| Pages | 37–64 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Nicomachean ethics, Transmission |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Citer/traduire. La traduction arabo-latine de la Rhétorique d’Aristote par Hermann l’Allemand et les citations d’al-Fârâbî et Averroès |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2017 |
| Journal | Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 177–218 |
| Categories | Aristotle, al-Fārābī, Tradition and Reception, Rhetoric |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Commenting on Aristotle’s Rhetoric from Antiquity to the Present / Commenter la Rhétorique d’Aristote, de l’Antiquité à la période contemporaine |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | International Studies in the History of Rhetoric |
| Volume | 11 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Commentary, Modern Readings, Tradition and Reception, Rhetoric |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The present volume brings together thirteen articles as so many chapters of a book, devoted to the history, methods, and practices of the commentaries that have been written on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Examining both the linguistic and factual background, these contributions attempt to insert each of the commentaries into its particular historical, political, social, philosophical, and pedagogical context. The historical periods and geographical areas that arise – from Greco-Roman antiquity to Heidegger’s philosophy, from the Syriac and Arabic traditions to the Western world – make it possible, in sum, not only to indicate how the Rhetoric has been read and interpreted, but also to offer general perspectives on the practice of explicating ancient texts. |
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| Title | De l’ὑπόκρισις au أخذ بالوجوه. L’interprétation de l’action oratoire par Averroès dans le Commentaire moyen à la Rhétorique d’Aristote |
| Transcription | De l’hypokrisis au akhdh bi-l-wujûd. L’interprétation de l’action oratoire par Averroès dans le commentaire moyen à la Rhétorique d’Aristote |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2015 |
| Journal | Studia Graeco-Arabica |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Rhetoric, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The notion of ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis) was employed for the first time with the meaning of “rhetorical delivery” in Aristotle’s Rhetoric, where it is the target of a short and highly critical analysis. A practice borrowed directly from the theatre, and apparently resistant to any form of technicisation that might give it a legitimate place alongside the other means of rhetorical persuasion, ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis) was nevertheless extremely effective–as Aristotle acknowledged with undisguised irritation. In the face of Aristotle’s ambivalence, and torn between a purist and idealist conception of rhetoric on the one hand, and the contemporary reality of speech, which required him to recognise a practice of which he could not approve, on the other, what was Averroes’ attitude in his Middle Commentary on the Rhetoric? Dependent on the Arabic version of the Rhetoric where the term ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis) was – with one exception – translated by the expression أخذ بالوجوه (aḫḏ bi-l-wuǧūh) – “the taking of faces” –, has Averroes followed Aristotle in his hesitations and reticences? Or has he instead chosen to legitimise the use of hypokrisis in rhetorical technique? The analysis of the Rushdian interpretation of the ‘taking of faces’ will allow a better understanding of Averroes’ exegetical method, and grasp of what it meant, to him, to be faithful to the First Master. |
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| Title | Ibn Rushd’s Middle Commentary on the Poetics, or the Ethical Education |
| Type | Article |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2024 |
| Journal | Journal of Islamic Ethics |
| Pages | 1 - 25 |
| Categories | Poetics, Ethics, Logic |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In his Talkhīṣ Kitāb Arisṭūṭālīs fī l-Shiʿr (“Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics”) Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 595/1198) strictly defines poetic statements (al-aqāwīl al-shiʿriyya) as imaginative (mutakhayyila) statements that imitate the good and the evil, and aim at inciting people to virtue and deterring them from vice. Yet the traces of the Aristotelian ethical doctrine in this Commentary are not restricted to this link to virtue ethics, as the entire text follows at different levels the division between virtue/vice and good/evil. Ibn Rushd also refers to the teaching of ethics when discussing the object of poetic imitation (al-tashbīh wa-l-muḥākāt), the different natures he distinguishes among poets, and the genres of panegyric (madīḥ) and satire (hijāʾ). However, recent scholarship tends to view the Poetics in the Islamic context as a fundamentally logical treatise. Following the Alexandrian tradition, the falāsifa sought, at least since al-Fārābī (d. 339/950), to justify and explain the position of the Poetics in the Organon by defining, for example, the logical and psychological mechanisms of the poetical syllogism. More specifically, philosophers drew parallels between the role of imagination (takhayyul) in the poetical context and the role of assent or conviction (taṣdīq) in the other logical arts, and in particular in the Rhetoric (al-Khiṭāba). The purpose of this contribution is to demonstrate that the Poetics, according to Ibn Rushd, is a treatise that combines logic and ethics and determines in that respect the conditions and the rules of a practical education of the citizens. Like the rhetoric whose political value was already determined, poetics also plays a role in defining the nature and the content of the poetical statements that are to be employed in order to encourage people to virtuous actions – that is, the very condition for a virtuous political, and thus, a happy life. Straddling between logic and ethics, poetry is therefore fundamentally political. |
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| Title | Le "style éthique" chez Aristote et Averroès |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2010 |
| Published in | Les noms du style dans l'Antiquité gréco-latine |
| Pages | 357–370 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Ethics |
| Author(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
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| Title | Le Plaisir, le bonheur et l’acquisition des vertus |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies |
| Volume | 108 |
| Categories | Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Averroes , Frédérique Woerther , |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Frédérique Woerther |
| This volume contains the first edition of the Latin version of the Middle Commentary of Averroes on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book X, the original arabic version being lost. It is accompanied by an annotated French translation. The volume also contains a full study of the manuscript tradition of the Latin text and sets outs the principles used in the edition, which takes into account, where necessary, the Hebrew version of the Commentary. Two further studies complete the volume: the first is devoted to the genre of “Middle Commentary” (talḫīṣ); the second considers how Averroes uses an analogy with medicine to place ethics at the heart of practical philosophy, and how, in a manner that is foreign to Aristotle, he conceives of ethics as a “science.” |
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| Title | Le commentaire par Averroès du chapitre 9 du livre X de l'Éthique à Nicomaque. Pédagogie de la contrainte, habitudes et lois |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2009 |
| Journal | Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph |
| Volume | 62 |
| Pages | 353–380 |
| Categories | Ethics, Commentary |
| Author(s) | Maroun Aouad , Frédérique Woerther |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Le texte arabe n'étant pas conservé, les notions en question sont étudiées à partir des versions hébraïque et latin, cette dernière datée de 1260 [p. 367, 378, ou «1240», p. 354 et 355], conservée dans treize mss et treize fois éditée entre 1483 et 1575; on y distingue trois rédactions, la première elle-même connaissant deux versions dont la seconde, celle de deux mss et de l'éd. de 1483, procéderait d'une révision sur le texte arabe postérieure à Hermann; la deuxième rédaction a connu une division en chapitres entièrement nouvelle et des améliorations philologiques sans recours à l'arabe; la troisième rédaction, dépendant de la seconde version de la première rédaction, se trouve dans des éditions du XVIe s. On transcrit ici, p. 362–367, corrigé au besoin sur l'éd. de 1483, et l'on traduit en français, p. 368–378, le texte de l'éd. de Venise, Junte, 1562, réimpr. Francfort 1962, remontant elle aussi à la réd. I, version 2, selon J. B. Korolec, «Mittlerer Kommentar von Averroes zur Nikomachischen Ethic des Aristoteles», Mediaevalia philosophica Polonorum 31, 1992, p. 61–118 |
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