Lecteurs arabes et latins de Thémistius au Moyen Âge: l’intellect et ses objets, 2022
By: Elisa Coda
Title Lecteurs arabes et latins de Thémistius au Moyen Âge: l’intellect et ses objets
Type Article
Language undefined
Date 2022
Journal Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 3-36
Categories Tradition and Reception, Themistius, Aquinas, Aristotle, De anima, Intellect
Author(s) Elisa Coda
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This article examines one of the fundamental theses of Themistius in his paraphrase of Aristotle’s De anima, namely, the relationship between the intellect and its objects, as it appears in the reception of two readers of Themistius in the Middle Ages: Averroes and Thomas Aquinas. The comparison between these two philosophers suggests that the (neo)Platonic heritage present in the Themistian interpretation of the relation between the intellect and its objects was influential to a certain extent, but it produced in the two philosophers different considerations. A third reader, anonymous, is mentioned: a small treatise known as the Anonymous of Basel, written between 1308 and 1323, provides interesting testimony to the respective influence of the Themistian readings of Averroes and Thomas.

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Pensiero divino, anime umane : l'aristotelismo di Temistio e la filosofia pre-moderna, 2022
By: Elisa Coda
Title Pensiero divino, anime umane : l'aristotelismo di Temistio e la filosofia pre-moderna
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2022
Publication Place Pisa
Publisher Edizioni ETS
Categories Themistius, Tradition and Reception, De anima
Author(s) Elisa Coda
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Pomponazzi Contra Averroes on the Intellect, 2016
By: John Sellars
Title Pomponazzi Contra Averroes on the Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 45–66
Categories Renaissance, De anima, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Thomas
Author(s) John Sellars
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Translator(s)
This paper examines Pomponazzi's arguments against Averroes in his De Immortalitate Animae, focusing on the question whether thought is possible without a body. The first part of the paper will sketch the history of the problem, namely the interpretation of Aristotle's remarks about the intellect in De Anima 3.4-5, touching on Alexander, Themistius, and Averroes. The second part will focus on Pomponazzi's response to Averroes, including his use of arguments by Aquinas. It will conclude by suggesting that Pomponazzi's discussion stands as the first properly modern account of Aristotle's psychology.

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Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics, 2013
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Anima
Pages 1–38
Categories Themistius
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
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Boèce, Averroès et Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī. Témoins des écrits de Thémistius sur les Topiques d'Aristote, 2007
By: Ahmad Hasnawi
Title Boèce, Averroès et Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī. Témoins des écrits de Thémistius sur les Topiques d'Aristote
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 17
Issue 2
Pages 203–265
Categories Transmission, Commentary, Themistius, Logic, Aristotle
Author(s) Ahmad Hasnawi
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Aristotle's Topics, and especially, as far as the subject of this study is concerned, their central books (II-VII), played a role of central importance both in the medieval Latin and in the Arabic logical tradition. This did not occur without transformations, which affected the nature and the function of the loci of which these books set forth the theory. One of the most visible signposts of this tradition of re-elaboration of the Topics is represented by Themistius (ob. c. 388), to whom both Boethius and Averroes refer. Yet no work by Themistius on the Topics has come down to us in Greek. With a view to reconstructing the work(s) of this author, we have here collected and translated the passages that are attributed to him explicitly (with the exception of one of them) in Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Topics, comparing them, where necessary, to the testimonies collected by Boethius in his De topicis differentiis. In addition - and this is a new element added to the file - we show that the Themistian classification of loci was taken up by Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī (ob. after 1164), author of a philosophical summa entitled al-Kitāb al-muʿtabar (The meditated book). These three testimonies are all the more precious in that they are independent of one another. The study of the chapter in the logical part of al-Kitāb al-muʿtabar, containing the Themistian classification of loci, of which a corrected text with translation is offered, shows that one finds in it some of the most singular aspects of this classification, as it appears in Boethius. Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī thus reveals himself to be closer than Averroes to the testimony of Boethius. This suggests the idea of a double redaction by Themistius of the classification of loci: one, more concentrated, comes from an introduction to the paraphrase of the central books of the Topics, which may have inspired Averroes; the other, more extensive, which will have been part of an original work, and inspired the classifications of Boethius and of Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī.

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Taxinomie topique. La classification thémistéenne des lieux chez Boèce, Averroès et Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, 2004
By: Ahmad Hasnawi
Title Taxinomie topique. La classification thémistéenne des lieux chez Boèce, Averroès et Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2004
Published in Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Studies on the sources, contents and influences of Islamic civilization and Arabic philosophy and science. Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his sixty-fifth birthday
Pages 245–257
Categories Themistius, Boethius, Physics
Author(s) Ahmad Hasnawi
Publisher(s)
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Pensiero divino, anime umane : l'aristotelismo di Temistio e la filosofia pre-moderna, 2022
By: Elisa Coda
Title Pensiero divino, anime umane : l'aristotelismo di Temistio e la filosofia pre-moderna
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2022
Publication Place Pisa
Publisher Edizioni ETS
Categories Themistius, Tradition and Reception, De anima
Author(s) Elisa Coda
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Boèce, Averroès et Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī. Témoins des écrits de Thémistius sur les Topiques d'Aristote, 2007
By: Ahmad Hasnawi
Title Boèce, Averroès et Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī. Témoins des écrits de Thémistius sur les Topiques d'Aristote
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 17
Issue 2
Pages 203–265
Categories Transmission, Commentary, Themistius, Logic, Aristotle
Author(s) Ahmad Hasnawi
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Aristotle's Topics, and especially, as far as the subject of this study is concerned, their central books (II-VII), played a role of central importance both in the medieval Latin and in the Arabic logical tradition. This did not occur without transformations, which affected the nature and the function of the loci of which these books set forth the theory. One of the most visible signposts of this tradition of re-elaboration of the Topics is represented by Themistius (ob. c. 388), to whom both Boethius and Averroes refer. Yet no work by Themistius on the Topics has come down to us in Greek. With a view to reconstructing the work(s) of this author, we have here collected and translated the passages that are attributed to him explicitly (with the exception of one of them) in Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Topics, comparing them, where necessary, to the testimonies collected by Boethius in his De topicis differentiis. In addition - and this is a new element added to the file - we show that the Themistian classification of loci was taken up by Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī (ob. after 1164), author of a philosophical summa entitled al-Kitāb al-muʿtabar (The meditated book). These three testimonies are all the more precious in that they are independent of one another. The study of the chapter in the logical part of al-Kitāb al-muʿtabar, containing the Themistian classification of loci, of which a corrected text with translation is offered, shows that one finds in it some of the most singular aspects of this classification, as it appears in Boethius. Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī thus reveals himself to be closer than Averroes to the testimony of Boethius. This suggests the idea of a double redaction by Themistius of the classification of loci: one, more concentrated, comes from an introduction to the paraphrase of the central books of the Topics, which may have inspired Averroes; the other, more extensive, which will have been part of an original work, and inspired the classifications of Boethius and of Abū al-Barakāt al-Baġdādī.

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Lecteurs arabes et latins de Thémistius au Moyen Âge: l’intellect et ses objets, 2022
By: Elisa Coda
Title Lecteurs arabes et latins de Thémistius au Moyen Âge: l’intellect et ses objets
Type Article
Language undefined
Date 2022
Journal Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 3-36
Categories Tradition and Reception, Themistius, Aquinas, Aristotle, De anima, Intellect
Author(s) Elisa Coda
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This article examines one of the fundamental theses of Themistius in his paraphrase of Aristotle’s De anima, namely, the relationship between the intellect and its objects, as it appears in the reception of two readers of Themistius in the Middle Ages: Averroes and Thomas Aquinas. The comparison between these two philosophers suggests that the (neo)Platonic heritage present in the Themistian interpretation of the relation between the intellect and its objects was influential to a certain extent, but it produced in the two philosophers different considerations. A third reader, anonymous, is mentioned: a small treatise known as the Anonymous of Basel, written between 1308 and 1323, provides interesting testimony to the respective influence of the Themistian readings of Averroes and Thomas.

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Pomponazzi Contra Averroes on the Intellect, 2016
By: John Sellars
Title Pomponazzi Contra Averroes on the Intellect
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 45–66
Categories Renaissance, De anima, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Thomas
Author(s) John Sellars
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This paper examines Pomponazzi's arguments against Averroes in his De Immortalitate Animae, focusing on the question whether thought is possible without a body. The first part of the paper will sketch the history of the problem, namely the interpretation of Aristotle's remarks about the intellect in De Anima 3.4-5, touching on Alexander, Themistius, and Averroes. The second part will focus on Pomponazzi's response to Averroes, including his use of arguments by Aquinas. It will conclude by suggesting that Pomponazzi's discussion stands as the first properly modern account of Aristotle's psychology.

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Taxinomie topique. La classification thémistéenne des lieux chez Boèce, Averroès et Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, 2004
By: Ahmad Hasnawi
Title Taxinomie topique. La classification thémistéenne des lieux chez Boèce, Averroès et Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2004
Published in Words, Texts and Concepts Cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Studies on the sources, contents and influences of Islamic civilization and Arabic philosophy and science. Dedicated to Gerhard Endress on his sixty-fifth birthday
Pages 245–257
Categories Themistius, Boethius, Physics
Author(s) Ahmad Hasnawi
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Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics, 2013
By: Richard C. Taylor
Title Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2013
Published in Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Anima
Pages 1–38
Categories Themistius
Author(s) Richard C. Taylor
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