The commentary of St. Thomas on the De Caelo of Aristotle
The "commentary" or Sententia de caelo et mundo of St. Thomas is a work of great maturity and profundity. It is one of Thomas's last writings, and it reveals a breadth of scholarship and achievement wanting, for the most part, in his earlier Aristotelian comentaries, such as those...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
2023
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| Sumario: | The "commentary" or Sententia de caelo et mundo of St. Thomas
is a work of great maturity and profundity. It is one of Thomas's
last writings, and it reveals a breadth of scholarship and achievement
wanting, for the most part, in his earlier Aristotelian comentaries,
such as those on the Ethics, Physics, De anima, and early parts of . the
Metaphysics; but it comes to grips with profound problems of Aristotelianhpi
loso bpy inherent in the conflictingg views of Greek and
Arab commentators. I. T. Eschmann rightly noted that "itrepresents;
the high water-mark of St. Thomas's expository skill".' In long
subtle digressions, Thomas discusses and evaluates the views of other
commentators reported by Simplicius, as well as the views of Simplicius
himself, who is a primary source in this commentary. As in earlier
commentaries, Thomas was also concerned with the teaching of Averróes,
which deeply influenced the masters in arts at Paris in the late
1260s and throughout the 1270s. The excessive adoption of Averroes
by masters in arts resulted in the condemnation of 13 Averroes theses
on Dec. 10, 1270, by the bishop of Paris, Etienne Tempier, and in
the- more sweeping condemnation by the same bishop on March 7,
1277. Simplicius and Averroes are in fact the two basic sources for
Thomas's commentary on De caelo... |
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