Enarratio de anima ex Aristotelis institutione
Reprint of the 1st edition (Brescia 1495).
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Girolamo Donato‘s translation of the description of the Aristotelian theory of soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (around 200 n. AD) split the Aristotelians of the Renaissance into two camps in 1495. Whereas the medieval Averroists believed that human souls were in fact mortal, but the intellect which all human beings had in common was immortal, Alexander taught that the human intellect was individual and mortal. This disagreement about the theory of soul meant that profound changes were possible in the relationship between theology and philosophy and also between a natural doctrine based on metaphysics and one based on perception.
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»Der Verlag Frommann-Holzboog hat die verdienstvolle Aufgabe übernommen, in dieser Reihe sämtliche in der Renaissance gedruckten lateinischen Übersetzungen der griechischen Kommentare zu Aristoteles im Neudruck vorzulegen.«
»La collection des traductions latines d’opuscules philosophiques grecs des commentateurs d’Aristote s’enrichit ainsi d’un nouveau volume. La réimpression d’ouvrages devenues introuvables permet d’illustrer l’abondance des traveaux philosophiques et de leurs éditions au cors du 16e siècle, comme elle témoigne du bouillonnement intellectuel qui secoua l’Europe avec l’apparition de l’humanisme, l’éveil des consciences et la naissance de l’esprit individuel.«
All volumes
- Alexander von Aphrodisias: Alexandri Aphrodisiensis Quaestiones naturales et morales et De fato – October 2025
- Alexander von Aphrodisias: Commentaria in duodecim Aristotelis libros de prima philosophia – available
- Alexander von Aphrodisias: In libros meteorologicorum – available
- Dexippus: In defensionem praedicamentorum Aristotelis adversus Plotinum – available
- Alexander von Aphrodisias: Enarratio de anima ex Aristotelis institutione – available
- Ammonius Hermeae: Commentaria in Peri hermeneias Aristotelis – available
- Eustratius / Aspasius / Michael Ephesius et al.: Aristotelis Stagiritae Moralia Nicomachia – available
- Johannes Philoponus: Commentaria in libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis – available
- Ammonius Hermeae: Commentaria in quinque voces Porphyrii; In Aristotelis categorias (erweiterte Nachschrift des Johannes Philoponus= CAG XIII i) – available
- Simplicius: Commentaria in decem Categorias Aristotelis – available
- Eustratius Nicaenus: Commentaria in II. librum Posteriorum analyticorum Aristotelis. Innominati auctoris: Expositiones in II librum Posteriorum resolutivorum Aristotelis – available
- Alexander von Aphrodisias: In VIII Libros Topicorum Aristotelis Commentatio. Pseudo-Alexander: Annotationes in Librum Elenchorum Aristotelis – available
- Johannes Philoponus: Commentaria in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis – available
- Johannes Philoponus: Commentariae Annotationes In Libros Priorum Resolutivorum Aristotelis – available
- Theodorus Metochites: Paraphrasis in Aristotelis universam naturalem philosophiam – available
- Pseudo-Johannes Philoponus: Expositiones In Omnes XIV Aristotelis libros Metaphysicos – available
- Michael Psellus: Commentarii in Physicen Aristotelis – available