The Relation between Averroes' Middle and Long Commentaries on the De anima, 1997
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title The Relation between Averroes' Middle and Long Commentaries on the De anima
Type Article
Language English
Date 1997
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 7
Pages 139–151
Categories Psychology, De anima
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Where Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle can be dated, the Middle Commentary on a given work can be seen to predate the Long Commentary. As an accompaniment to his fine edition of Averroes' Middle Commentary on the De anima, A. Ivry has maintained that in this instance matters are reversed and the Middle Commentary on the De anima is "an abridged and revised version" of the Long Commentary on the same work. Ivry develops his thesis most fully in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 5. There he argues that two passages in the Middle Commentary on the De anima refer to the Long Commentary by name, that a third passage alludes to the Long Commentary, and that in other passages the Middle and Long Commentaries use similar phraseology and the former can be seen to have abridged the latter. The present article replies as follows: The pair of passages in the Middle Commentary which Ivry reads as referring explicitly to the Long Commentary can plausibly be read as cross-references within the Middle Commentary itself. The passage that he takes as alluding to the Long Commentary does not in fact allude to that work, but is an unambiguous reference to a later section of the Middle Commentary. And there is no justification for regarding the passages in the Middle Commentary cited by Ivry which use phraseology similar to that of the Long Commentary as borrowings from the latter. In the course of his arguments, Ivry refers to Averroes' position on the nature of the human material intellect, the issue that gave Averroes the most trouble in his commentaries on Aristotle's De anima and that has most intrigued students of Averroes ever since. The present article points out that on the subject of the human material intellect, neither the Middle nor the Long Commentary on the De anima borrows from the other, for the conceptions of the material intellect which they espouse are different and incompatible

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Averroes on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence, 1987
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence
Type Article
Language English
Date 1987
Journal Viator
Volume 18
Pages 191–225
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
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Averroes on the Material Intellect, 1986
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes on the Material Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 1986
Journal Viator
Volume 17
Pages 91–137
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroes and Narboni on the Material Intellect, 1984
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes and Narboni on the Material Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 1984
Journal AJS Review
Volume 9
Pages 175–184
Categories Psychology, Intellect
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Questions regarding the human intellect haunted Averroes throughout his philosophic career; no less than seven of his preserved works treat the human intellect formally, while others, naturally enough, also do so incidentally. Here I shall point out that the seven aforementioned works fall into a sequence, that a recently published text of Averroes' has its place within the sequence, and that Moses Narboni misread Averroes for reasons to be explained.

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John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation, 1969
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation
Type Article
Language English
Date 1969
Journal Journal of the American Oriental Society
Volume 89
Issue 2
Pages 357-391
Categories Philoponus, Influence, Tradition and Reception, Metaphysics
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Arguments from the Concept of Particularization in Arabic Philosophy, 1968
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Arguments from the Concept of Particularization in Arabic Philosophy
Type Article
Language undefined
Date 1968
Journal Philosophy East and West
Volume 18
Issue 4
Pages 299-314
Categories Surveys, Metaphysics
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Arguments from the Concept of Particularization in Arabic Philosophy, 1968
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Arguments from the Concept of Particularization in Arabic Philosophy
Type Article
Language undefined
Date 1968
Journal Philosophy East and West
Volume 18
Issue 4
Pages 299-314
Categories Surveys, Metaphysics
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
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Averroes and Narboni on the Material Intellect, 1984
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes and Narboni on the Material Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 1984
Journal AJS Review
Volume 9
Pages 175–184
Categories Psychology, Intellect
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Questions regarding the human intellect haunted Averroes throughout his philosophic career; no less than seven of his preserved works treat the human intellect formally, while others, naturally enough, also do so incidentally. Here I shall point out that the seven aforementioned works fall into a sequence, that a recently published text of Averroes' has its place within the sequence, and that Moses Narboni misread Averroes for reasons to be explained.

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Averroes on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence, 1987
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes on the Active Intellect as a Cause of Existence
Type Article
Language English
Date 1987
Journal Viator
Volume 18
Pages 191–225
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroes on the Material Intellect, 1986
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title Averroes on the Material Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 1986
Journal Viator
Volume 17
Pages 91–137
Categories Psychology
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
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John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation, 1969
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title John Philoponus as a Source of Medieval Islamic and Jewish Proofs of Creation
Type Article
Language English
Date 1969
Journal Journal of the American Oriental Society
Volume 89
Issue 2
Pages 357-391
Categories Philoponus, Influence, Tradition and Reception, Metaphysics
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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The Relation between Averroes' Middle and Long Commentaries on the De anima, 1997
By: Herbert A. Davidson
Title The Relation between Averroes' Middle and Long Commentaries on the De anima
Type Article
Language English
Date 1997
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 7
Pages 139–151
Categories Psychology, De anima
Author(s) Herbert A. Davidson
Publisher(s)
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Where Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle can be dated, the Middle Commentary on a given work can be seen to predate the Long Commentary. As an accompaniment to his fine edition of Averroes' Middle Commentary on the De anima, A. Ivry has maintained that in this instance matters are reversed and the Middle Commentary on the De anima is "an abridged and revised version" of the Long Commentary on the same work. Ivry develops his thesis most fully in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 5. There he argues that two passages in the Middle Commentary on the De anima refer to the Long Commentary by name, that a third passage alludes to the Long Commentary, and that in other passages the Middle and Long Commentaries use similar phraseology and the former can be seen to have abridged the latter. The present article replies as follows: The pair of passages in the Middle Commentary which Ivry reads as referring explicitly to the Long Commentary can plausibly be read as cross-references within the Middle Commentary itself. The passage that he takes as alluding to the Long Commentary does not in fact allude to that work, but is an unambiguous reference to a later section of the Middle Commentary. And there is no justification for regarding the passages in the Middle Commentary cited by Ivry which use phraseology similar to that of the Long Commentary as borrowings from the latter. In the course of his arguments, Ivry refers to Averroes' position on the nature of the human material intellect, the issue that gave Averroes the most trouble in his commentaries on Aristotle's De anima and that has most intrigued students of Averroes ever since. The present article points out that on the subject of the human material intellect, neither the Middle nor the Long Commentary on the De anima borrows from the other, for the conceptions of the material intellect which they espouse are different and incompatible

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