Modi Rerum and Materialism: A Note on a Quotation of a Condemned Articulus in Some Fourteenth-Century Parisian De Anima Commentaries

The importance of the commentaries on Aristotle's works in late medieval philosophy cannot be overestimated; they are in many cases the only witnesses to contemporary debates on philosophical topics. They are nonetheless very difficult to use: not only have different versions of the same commen...

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Published in:Traditio 2000, Vol.55, p.211-234
Main Author: Caroti, Stefano
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Albedo
Aristotelianism
Eternal condemnation
Identity theory
Intellect
Materialism
Philosophy of mind
Physics
Soul
Theology
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Summary:The importance of the commentaries on Aristotle's works in late medieval philosophy cannot be overestimated; they are in many cases the only witnesses to contemporary debates on philosophical topics. They are nonetheless very difficult to use: not only have different versions of the same commentary sometimes been preserved but also different commentaries on the same works, such as the different lecturae of some of Buridan's commentaries. There is also the highly standardized form of the commentaries themselves, where the same questions on a given Aristotelian work are often discussed in the same order. This uniformity is not limited to the titles of the questiones but affects the arguments too, which gives rise to doubts about the originality of the authors. It is easy to think of them as slavishly following an established tradition and so to fail to appreciate the real importance of their commentaries.
ISSN:0362-1529
2166-5508
DOI:10.1017/S0362152900000106