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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.

Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Aristotle. --- Aristoteles.

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Metaphysics. --- Aristotle. --- Metaphysics --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of mind --- Aristoteles. --- Aristotle --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie ancienne --- Aristotle. - Metaphysics.

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A critical analysis of Aristotle's historical document on Athenian democracy, which starts from the belief that the ""Athenaion Politeia"" does not fit any ancient genre. The author argues that Aristotle created a new genre and was not therefore inhibited by generic constraints of any kind.

Political geography. --- Geography, Political --- Human geography --- Aristotle. --- Aristoteles.

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The physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) composed two related texts in Syriac about the philosophy of Aristotle, chiefly dealing with themes discussed by Aristotle in his Categories , but also with his teaching on space as found in the Physics . This book presents a critical edition and English translation of the shorter of these texts. A survey of Sergius’ life and works is given in the introduction and the intellectual context of his education in Alexandria is outlined, with focus on the medical and philosophical curricula of the Alexandrian school. Sergius’ line of thought is clarified and his text is compared to Greek commentaries on the Categories that also present the teaching of his Neoplatonist master Ammonius Hermeiou.

Aristotle. --- Sergius, --- Rescainae, Sergius, --- Serge, --- Sergios, --- Sergio, --- Aristoteles.

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This book contains the first English translation of Abūl-Walīd Ibn Rushd's (Averroes') so-called Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics . 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. 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 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. It is accompanied by a commentary dealing with the major philosophical topics, Averroes' sources and problems of the transmission and constitution of the text. In addition, the most important variant readings of the manuscripts are noted in footnotes underneath the translation.

Metaphysics. --- Islamic philosophy --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie islamique --- Aristotle. --- Averroës, --- Aristotle. -- Metaphysics. --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of mind --- Aristoteles. --- Averroes. --- Islamic Philosophy. --- PHILOSOPHY --- Metaphysics (Aristotle). --- 08.22 medieval philosophy. --- Rezeption. --- Islamische Philosophie. --- Arabisch. --- Metaphysica (Aristoteles). --- Aristoteles --- Aristoteles; Ta meta ta physika. --- Averroes; Talḫīṣ mā baʻda al-ṭabīʻa. --- Aristoteles, --- Metaphysica