The asterisks * indicate where more than three words from the anonmymous translation have been omitted by William. /l1#jp7 – anchor for links from Aquinas's commentary on the Metaphysics./l1#p14 – page number in Aristoteles Latinus.This means you can link to the text anywhere in the Museum, and anywhere in the Internet. Note that Ross was translating from the Greek, not the Latin, so treat the English as a guide only.Īll the Aristotle texts in the Logic Museum are anchored. Vuillemin-Diem, 1995 (full reference below). The Latin version is taken from William of Moerbeke's translation, edited by G.

At tamen ab eis tantum habemus, quia dicentium de principio et causa nullus praeter ea quae sunt in phisicis a nobis determinata dixit- 'Our review of those who have spoken about first principles and reality and of the way in which they have spoken, has been concise and summary but yet we have learnt this much from them, that of those who speak about ‘principle’ and ‘cause’ no one has mentioned any principle except those which have been distinguished in our work on nature' In addition, the most important variant readings of the manuscripts are noted in footnotes underneath the translation.Breviter igitur et capitaliter qui et quomodo de principiis et veritate dixerunt pertransivimus. It is accompanied by a commentary dealing with the major philosophical topics, Averroes' sources and problems of the transmission and constitution of the text. The present translation is based on a wide range of documents including, apart from the available Arabic editions, a number of medieval Arabic manuscripts not taken into consideration in these editions as well as the Renaissance translation into Latin prepared by Jacob Mantinus. The two most interesting things about this work are the fact that Averroes restructures here the Aristotelian text according to his own conception of metaphysics, as opposed to his great literal commentary which follows the order of the Metaphysics section by section, and that he constantly revised this work over more than three decades. The original Arabic text was composed around 1160 as a sort of appendix to a series of compendia of Aristotle's works on natural philosophy by the famous Andalusian philosopher.

This book contains the first English translation of Abūl-Walīd Ibn Rushd's (Averroes') so-called Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

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