A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26128-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 698 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1188 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

Few philosophical books have been so influential in the development of Western thought as Aristotle’s Metaphysics. For centuries Aristotle’s most celebrated work has been regarded as a source of inspiration as well as the starting point for every investigation into the structure of reality. Not surprisingly, the topics discussed in the book – the scientific status of ontology and metaphysics, the foundations of logical truths, the notions of essence and existence, the nature of material objects and their properties, the status of mathematical entities, just to mention some – are still at the centre of the current philosophical debate and are likely to excite philosophical minds for many years to come. This volume reconstructs in fourteen chapters a particular phase in the long history of the Metaphysics by focusing on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s masterpiece, specifically from its introduction in the Latin West in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries.

Contributors include: Marta Borgo, Matteo di Giovanni, Amos Bertolacci, Silvia Donati, Gabriele Galluzzo, Alessandro D. Conti, Sten Ebbesen, Fabrizio Amerini, Giorgio Pini, Roberto Lambertini, William O. Duba, Femke J. Kok, and Paul J.J.M. Bakker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galluzzo, Gabriele

Amerini, Fabrizio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 1
. Fabrizio Amerini and Gabriele Galluzzo
Latin Medieval Translations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. 19
. Marta Borgo
The Commentator: Averroes’s Reading of the Metaphysics. 59
. Matteo di Giovanni
Avicenna’s and Averroes’s Interpretations and Their Influence in Albertus Magnus. 95
. Amos Bertolacci
English Commentaries before Scotus. A Case Study: The Discussion on the Unity of Being. 137
. Silvia Donati
Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics. 209
. Gabriele Galluzzo
Giles of Rome’s Questions on the Metaphysics. 255
. Alessandro D. Conti
Five Parisian Sets of Questions on the Metaphysics from the 1270s to the 1290s. 277
. Sten Ebbesen
Alexander of Alessandria’s Commentary on the Metaphysics. 315
. Fabrizio Amerini
The Questions on the Metaphysics by John Duns Scotus: A Vindication of Pure Intellect. 359
. Giorgio Pini
Jandun’s Question-Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. 385
. Roberto Lambertini
Three Franciscan Metaphysicians after Scotus: Antonius Andreae, Francis of Marchia, and Nicholas Bonet. 413
. William O. Duba
John Buridan’s Commentary on the Metaphysics. 495
. Femke J. Kok
Paul of Venice’s Commentary on the Metaphysics. 551
. Alessandro D. Conti
Fifteenth-Century Parisian Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. 575
. Paul J.J.M. Bakker
Bibliography. 631
List of Manuscripts. 665
Index of Names. 667

Über Autor(innen)

Fabrizio Amerini is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Parma (Italy). He has published extensively on medieval logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. His latest publication is Thomas Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life, (Harvard 2013).

Gabriele Galluzzo received his Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2004). He is currently a Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Exeter. His areas of interest include Aristotle’s Metaphysics and its medieval reception, as well as contemporary metaphysics.