Thomas Aquinas. A Commentary on Aritotle's De anima. Translated by Robert Pasnau.

Sehr gutes Exemplar; R�ckdeckel mit kl. ISBN-Aufkleber. - INHALT : Acknowledgments ------ Introduction ------ Symbols and References ------ The Commentary's Analysis of the Text ------ BOOK I ------ BOOK II ------ BOOK III ------ Textual Emendations ------ Bibliography ------ Index. // De anima (deutsch ��er die Seele�) ist eine Schrift des Aristoteles. Sie behandelt die Seele als diejenige Entit� die bewirkt, dass einem nat�rlichen K�rper das Pr�kat �lebendig� zugesprochen werden kann. Die Schrift besteht aus drei B�chern. Es handelt sich um die erste bekannte Abhandlung der Antike, die speziell die Seele zum Thema hat. Angesprochen werden unter anderem Fragen der Erkenntnistheorie, der Philosophie des Geistes, der philosophischen Psychologie und der Handlungstheorie. . (wiki) // For much of the Middle Ages, western Europe was largely unacquainted with the philosophical legacy of ancient Greece. Almost all of Plato's writings remained unknown until the Renaissance, and Aristotle's most important works - among them the Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De anima - began to be available only in the middle of the twelfth century. As a result, it was not until the thirteenth century that philosophers and theologians in the Latin West were able to begin interpreting and making use of Aristotle's works. By far the most influential of these philosophers was Thomas Aquinas (1224 or 1225-1274). In his Aristotelian commentaries, of which the De anima commentary was the first, not only did Aquinas help to reclaim Aristotle for western philosophy, but he also grappled with the philosophical principles that would underlie his own broader, systematic works in natural and philosophical theology. Aquinas arrived at the University of Paris as a young Dominican in 1245, just as the arts faculty there was beginning to focus its attention on Aristotle.1 Such attention would have come earlier if not for a series of prohibitions at the University of Paris and elsewhere, beginning in 1210, which prohibited masters from lecturing on Aristotle's works in natural philosophy. By 1240 these prohibitions had fallen by the wayside, and the Latin West immersed itself in the Aristotelian tradition. This tradition proved to be just the impetus that western philosophy needed. From the sixth through the twelfth centuries, western Europe had produced only a handful of significant philosophers, most notably Anselm (c. 1033-1109) and Abelard (1079-1142). In the thirteenth century the quality and quantity of philosophy in western Europe grew dramatically, partly as a consequence of the development of universities. � (XI) // Aristoteles (* 384 v. Chr. in Stageira; � 322 v. Chr. in Chalkis auf Eub�a) war ein griechischer Universalgelehrter. Er geh�rt zu den bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Philosophen und Naturforschern der Geschichte. . (wiki) ISBN 0300074204