{"_index":"bib","_type":"_doc","_id":"1537","_score":null,"_source":{"id":1537,"authors_free":[{"id":1764,"entry_id":1537,"agent_type":"person","is_normalised":1,"person_id":905,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Peter Adamson","free_first_name":"Peter","free_last_name":"Adamson","norm_person":{"id":905,"first_name":"Peter","last_name":"Adamson","full_name":"Peter Adamson","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":0,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/139896104","viaf_url":"https:\/\/viaf.org\/viaf\/29826916","db_url":"","from_claudius":1,"link":"bib?authors[]=Peter Adamson"}}],"entry_title":"Ya\u1e25y\u00e1 ibn \u02bfAd\u012b and Averroes on Metaphysics Alpha Elatton","title_transcript":null,"title_translation":null,"main_title":{"title":"Ya\u1e25y\u00e1 ibn \u02bfAd\u012b and Averroes on Metaphysics Alpha Elatton"},"abstract":"This paper examines and compares two commentaries on Aristotle Metaphyics, Alpha Elatton. In the Arabic tradition this was considered to be the first book of the Metaphysics, and it accordingly acquired more importance than it is usually given today. After giving a brief resume of Elatton and its transmission into Arabic, the paper discusses the commentaries of Ya\u1e25y\u00e1 ibn \u02bfAd\u012b, a Christian commentator of the Baghdad School, and by Averroes. it is argued that these two commentaries show rather different conceptions of Elatton as a text, and metaphysics as a science. In the final section Averroes' commentary on Elatton is shown to resonate strongly with Averroes' famous Decisive Treatise. Concluding remarks consider the question of how Averroes' project as a commentator related to that of the Baghdad School.","btype":3,"date":"2010","language":"English","online_url":null,"doi_url":null,"ti_url":null,"categories":[{"id":31,"category_name":"Metaphysics","link":"bib?categories[]=Metaphysics"},{"id":23,"category_name":"Commentary","link":"bib?categories[]=Commentary"}],"authors":[{"id":905,"full_name":"Peter Adamson","role":1}],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":1537,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale","volume":"21","issue":null,"pages":"343\u2013374"}},"sort":["Ya\u1e25y\u00e1 ibn \u02bfAd\u012b and Averroes on Metaphysics Alpha Elatton"]}