Middle Commentary on Aristotle's De anima [Hardcover]

Averroës, the greatest Aristotelian of the Islamic philosophical tradition, composed some thirty-eight commentaries on the First Teacher's corpus, including three separate treatments ofDe Anima( On the Soul ): the works commonly referred to as the Short, Middle, and Long Commentaries. The Middle Commentary—actually Averroës's last writing on the text-remains one of his most refined and politically discreet treatments of Aristotle, offering modern readers Averroës's final statement on the material intellect and conjunction as well as an accessible historical window on Aristotle's work as it was interpreted and transmitted in the medieval period.

Alfred L. Ivryis Skirball Professor in Modern Jewish Thought and professor of Middle Eastern studies at New York University.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Key to the Apparatus
Middle Commentary on AristotlesDe anima
The First Discourse
[Commentary onDe anima1.1]
[Commentary onDe anima1.2]
[Commentary onDe anima1.3]
[Commentary onDe anima1.4]
[Commentary onDe anima1.5]
The Second Discourse
[Commentary onDe anima2.1]
[Commentary onDe anima2.2]
[Commentary onDe anima2.3]
The Chapter on the Nutritive Faculty: [Commentary onDe anima2.4]
The Chapter on Perception in General: [Commentary onDe anima2.5 6]
The Chapter on Sight: [Commentary onDe anima2.7]
The Chapter on Hearing: [Commentary onDe anima2.8]
The Chapter on the Sense of Smell: [Commentary onDe anima2.9]
The Chapter on Taste: [Commentary onDe anima2.10]
The Chapter on Touch: [Commentary onDe anima2.11 12]
The Third Discourse
[Commentary onDe anima3.1]
The Chapter on the Common Sense: [Commentary onDe anima3.2 3.3.428']
The Chapter on Imagination: [Commentary onDe anima3.3.428a 429a9]
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