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Micrologus XXXI* (2023) - Special Issue. Aristotle’s De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1250-1650
🔗Per acquistare il volume: https://bit.ly/46JEy8W The present collection of articles offers the first large-scale study of the Latin reception of Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato. Its fifteen contributions range from the first commentaries on Aristotle’s tract in the mid-thirteenth century to the waning of Scholastic Aristotelianism by the mid-seventeenth century and the emergence of new philosophies in the vernacular. 📚 Contents: M. Mantovani - R. Zambiasi - G. Zuccolin, Introduction – G. Galle, The Order of the Parva naturalia in Three Commentaries on De sensu Associated with Adam of Bockenfield. Implications for the Authenticity Question – Y. Kedar, Roger Bacon’s De sensu Colour Theory – S. Donati, Albert the Great on Light in His Commentaries on De anima and De sensu et sensato – G. Zuccolin, Monkeys, Pygmies, and Human Beings. Sensus disciplinales and the Hierarchy of Living Beings in Albert the Great – K. White, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Peter of Auvergne on “muti et surdi” (De sensu et sensato, 437a16-17) – C. Steel, Delectatio liberalis. Aristotle and His Medieval Commentators on Smell and Why Humans Find Pleasure in It – V. Decaix, Do We All Sense the Same Things? Some Medieval Solutions to De sensu 6 – A. Robert, The Diversity of Human Languages and Climate Theory. Philosophy and Medicine in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato – C. Beneduce, Utrum tactus sit terrae a dominio. Natural Philosophy and Medicine in Three Fourteenth-Century Questions on De sensu et sensato – R. Zambiasi, The Sense of Smell in the Commentary on the De sensu Attributed to Nicole Oresme and to Albert of Saxony – S. Masolini, Two Commentaries on the De sensu et sensato from Fifteenth-Century Louvain – C. Grellard, Parisian Commentaries on De sensu in Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries – L. Graciotti, Medicine and Philosophy in Pomponazzi’s Expositio libelli de sensu et sensato (1524-1525) – L. Burzelli, A Heated Debate. Pomponazzi and Contarini on the Nature of Fire – M. Mantovani, Renatus Democritus. Descartes on Atoms and the Senses. Indexes
Aristotle’s De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1150-1650, is the first international conference entirely devoted to the Latin reception of De sensu et sensato between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. The conference is hosted by the Universities of Pavia and Leuven: both founded in the Middle Ages, they provide the ideal milieu for discussing the legacy of Aristotle’s theories of perception over five centuries – a period that has profoundly marked the Western understanding of the subject. Relying on different approaches at the intersection of philosophy, theology, the history of science and medicine, philology and textual criticism, the conference intends to provide new tools and methods to survey and assess the main issues related to the Latin reception of Aristotle's De sensu. In particular, the conference investigates topics such as the function of the external and internal senses, and the interplay between them; the role of the medium and time in the perceptual act; the nature of light, colour, and the elements; the lively interaction with the medical tradition and the complex responses of the novatores. The conference intends thereby to shed new light on Latin Aristotelianism up to the mid-seventeenth century and to reconsider from a novel perspective the history of medieval and early modern theories of perception.
Review of Aristotle, De Anima: Translation, Introduction, and Notes, C.D.C. Reeve
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018
This is an excellent translation of Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, part of C.D.C. Reeve's impressive ongoing project of translating Aristotle's works for the New Hackett Aristotle. Reeve's translation is careful and accurate, committed to faithfully rendering Aristotle into English while making him as readable as possible. This edition features excellent notes that will greatly assist readers (especially in their inclusion of related passages that illuminate the sections they annotate) and an introduction that situates the work within Aristotle's scientific method and his overall view of reality.
Argument 12/2, 2022
The incomplete commentary on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato found in Prague, Metropolitan Chapter, Ms. M. 80, ff. 131vb-132vb was composed around 1250 in Oxford. Its author, whose identity is yet to be discovered, drew heavily on the so-called Oxford Gloss and Robert Grosseteste. It must have been originally designed for teaching purposes, presumably at the Faculty of Arts. Its peculiar formdubitationes-indicate a divergence from literal explanations of source texts, leading to a more independent formulation of research problems. For this reason, it emerges as an intermediary form between expositions and question-commentaries. These dubitationes are divided into two thematically distinct blocks beginning with short lemmas. First seven of them deal with the relationship between an organism viewed as a psychophysical unity and its various operations, such as sensations and emotions. The other block contains five short dubitationes on animal senses and a longer one on whether celestial bodies have colour. This neat composition is, however, interrupted by an independent note regarding the order of the powers of the soul following the first dubitatio in the second block.
Review of Aristotle, De Anima: Translation, Introduction, and Commentary, Christopher Shields
Philosophical Quarterly
This translation and commentary by Christopher Shields renders Aristotle into English more accurately and precisely than the previous Clarendon translation. Shields does a good job of making Aristotle’s reasoning clear while still being faithful to Aristotle’s terminology, although there are serious issues with the choices he makes in rendering Aristotle's language about intellectual activities. The introduction serves as a very fine entry into Aristotle’s views on the soul and the commentary is an excellent resource for both novices and established scholars.