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Averroës
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Averroës on Aristotle’s Criticism of his
Predecessors: An annotated translation of the long commentary
on Aristotle’s Metaphysics A |
Averroës to Chahine[†] |
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CONTENTS
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Contents:
Preface/Introduction
(motivation for the work and its general characteristics).
Comments
1-8, on Aristotle, Metaphysics A 5, 986a6-A 6, 988a2 (summary
statements on the monists, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, the Pythagoreans, and
Plato).
Comments
9-16, on A 6, 988a4-16, A 7, 988b17-A 8, 989b6 (more summary of Plato;
criticism of the monists, and of Empedocles and Anaxagoras).
Comments
17-24, on A 8, 989b6-A 9, 990a34 (more criticism of Anaxagoras, and of the
Pythagoreans).
(Comments 25-49, on Aristotle’s criticism of Plato in Chapter 9, are not
included at the present time.)
Comments
50-51, on A 10, 993a11-27 (general summary of Book A).
Annotations
(dealing with errors in the Arabic translation of Aristotle, clarification of
Averroës’s comments, references to other commentators, and miscellaneous
matters).
Bibliography,
including abbreviations used in the endnotes.
© 2007 E. F. Beall
