Commentum magnum super libro Phisicorum Aristotilis. Liber secundus
Translatio Michaeli Scoto adscripta
By (author) M. Perrone
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(December 2026)
ISBN: 9789042957688
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Ibn Rušd (1126-1198), commonly known in the Middle Ages as Averroes, commented on all the major works of Aristotle and profoundly influenced later Medieval and Renaissance philosophy. Notably, he wrote three works on the <i>Physics</i>: the Short, Middle, and Long Commentary. While only the Short Commentary survives in Arabic, the Middle and the Long Commentaries are preserved in Latin and Hebrew translations. Although Aristotle’s <i>Physics</i> had already been translated from Greek into Latin by James of Venice (12th century) and from Arabic by Gerard of Cremona (ca. 1114-1187), the new translation from Arabic accompanied by Averroes’s commentary gained wider circulation, as evidenced by the large number of manuscripts. This translation, which is generally attributed to Michael Scot (ca. 1175-1235), was likely produced at the court of Frederick II (1194-1250).
In his commentary on <i>Physics</i> II, Averroes explains Aristotle’s complex definition of nature and his fundamental theory of the four causes – material, formal, efficient, and final. Moreover, in discussing the concepts of necessity, contingency, and chance, Averroes criticises some of the basic assumptions of Avicenna’s metaphysics.
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