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Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul ; On sense and what is sensed ; On memory and recollection
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Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul ; On sense and what is sensed ; On memory and recollection / Saint Thomas Aquinas ; commentary on Aristotle's On the soul translated by Kenelm Foster, OP, and Sylvester Humphries, OP (revised by the Aquinas Institute) ; commentary on Aristotle's On sense and what is sensed translated by Kevin White ; commentary on Aristotle's On memory and recollection translated by Edward M. Macierowski.
ISBN
9781623400491
162340049X
Publication
Green Bay, WI : Aquinas Institute ; Steubenville, OH : Emmaus Academic, [2023]
Physical Description
ix, 583 pages ; 29 cm.
Notes
"The Greek text of On the soul is based on the edition of Paul Siwek, SJ (Rome: Desclée & C.i Editori Pontifici, 1965). The Greek text of On the sense and on memory is taken from the edition of W. D. Ross (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955). It has been revised by The Aquinas Institute"--Preliminary pages.
"The English translation of the Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul, together with the translation of Aristotle's text, was prepared by Kenelm Foster, O.P. and Sylvester Humphries, O.P. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951); it has been revised and edited by The Aquinas Institute. The English translation of the Commentary on Aristotle's On sense and what is sensed was prepared by Kevin White, and the English translation of the Commentary on Aristotle's On memory and recollection was prepared by Edward M. Macierowski; these two translations were originally published by the Catholic University of America Press, ©2005, and are here used gratefully with permission"--Preliminary pages.
Text in English, Greek, and Latin.
Summary
"Dating from 1267-1268, at the end of his time in Rome, St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul is the first of his commentary works on Aristotle, followed shortly thereafter by his writings on Aristotle's On sense and what is sensed and On memory and recollection, also included in this volume. Although commenting on Aristotle was not among Aquinas's duties as a university master, he seems to have undertaken this task in part as an aid to his theological work: just as he later comments on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics while drafting the material on moral theology in the Secunda Pars of the Summa theologiae, so too his writing of the Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul was contemporaneous with his composition of questions 75-89 in the Prima Pars, on the human soul. Displaying a sound grasp of Aristotle's thought as well as a deeply developed understanding of the human person, the Commentary on Aristotle's On the soul finds Aquinas working for the first time with William of Moerbeke's new Latin translations of On the soul and its paraphrase by Themestius. This important work of Aquinas is presented here with his other two earliest writings on Aristotle in a two-column Latin-English facing format"-- Provided by publisher.
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On sense and what is sensed
On memory and recollection
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Language
English; Greek, Modern (1453- ); Latin
Added to Catalog
May 28, 2024
Series
Latin/English edition of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas ; volume 49. Aristotle commentaries
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Includes bibliographical references.
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