Medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Categories / edited by Lloyd A. Newton.

Medieval commentary writing has often been described as a way of \'doing philosophy,\' and not without reason. The various commentaries on Aristotle's Categories we have from this period did not simply elaborate a dialectical exercise for training students; rather, they provided their...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 10
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (449 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / L. Newton
  • Introduction - The importance of medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s categories / Lloyd A. Newton
  • The medieval posterity of Simplicius ’commentary on the categories:Thomas Aquinas and Al-Fārābī / Michael Chase
  • Avicenna the commentator / Allan Bäck
  • Albertus Magnus on the subject of Aristotle’s categories / Bruno Tremblay
  • Interconnected literal commentaries on the categories in the middle ages / Robert Andrews
  • Thomas Aquinas on establishing the identity of Aristotle’s categories / Paul Symington
  • Reading Aristotle’s categories as an introduction to logic: Later medieval discussions about its place in the aristotelian corpus / Giorgio Pini
  • Simon of Faversham on Aristotle’s categories and the scientia praedicamentorum / Martin Pickavé
  • Duns Scotus ’s account of a propter quid science of the categories / Lloyd A. Newton
  • Fine-tuning Pini ’s reading of Scotus ’s categories commentary / Todd Bates
  • How is Scotus’s logic related to his metaphysics? A reply to Todd Bates / Giorgio Pini
  • John Buridan : On Aristotle’s categories / Alexander W. Hall
  • A realist interpretation of the categories in the fourteenth century:The Litteralis Sententia Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis of Robert Alyngton / Alessandro D. Conti
  • Thomas Maulevelt’s denial of substance / Robert Andrews
  • Quaestiones Super Veteri Arte Ff. 1ra–145vb Quaestiones Super Praedicamenta Erfurt Sb Ampl. Q 288 (XIV) Ff. 43rb–145vb / Thomas Maulevelt
  • Categories And universals in the later Middle Ages / Alessandro D. Conti
  • Bibliography / L. Newton
  • List of contributors / L. Newton
  • Index / L. Newton.