Richard Rufus of Cornwall - Scriptum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis: Alpha to Epsilon

This is the first great commentary in the Western European tradition of expounding Aristotle's Metaphysics. Rufus addresses questions such as 'what is truth?' `what is matter?', 'what are numbers?', `how do corruptible and incorruptible substances differ?', and `how do sensible objects act on the soul?'.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Scriptum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis


• Proem


• Liber I


• Liber II


• Liber III


• Liber IV


• Liber V


• Liber VI


• Indices

About the author

Rega Wood is the principal investigator of the Richard Rufus Project. She has prepared critical editions of major works of medieval philosophy and theology, including works by Richard Rufus, John Duns Scotus, William Ockham, and Adam Wodeham. She has taught at St. Bonaventure University, Yale University, Stanford University, and Indiana University, Bloomington.

Neil Lewis is a core member of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project, which is devoted to the preparation of critical editions of the works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, and a core member of the Ordered University Project devoted to interdisciplinary study of Grosseteste's scientific works. Most of his academic career has been spent as a professor in the philosophy department at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

Jennifer Ottman earned her B.A. at Amherst College and a Ph.D. at Yale University. She has been associated with the Richard Rufus Project since 1999 and has served as associate editor since 2011. She is also a collaborating editor and translator for the Greystones Manuscript Project, which began work in 2011 on the theological writings of the early-fourteenth- century English Benedictine Robert Greystones; a volume which was published in 2017.

Summary

This is the first great commentary in the Western European tradition of expounding Aristotle's Metaphysics. Rufus addresses questions such as 'what is truth?' `what is matter?', 'what are numbers?', `how do corruptible and incorruptible substances differ?', and `how do sensible objects act on the soul?'.

Product details

• Authors: Rega (Professor of Philosophy Emerita Wood
• Assisted by: Neil Lewis (Editor), Neil (Professor of Philosophy Lewis (Editor), Jennifer Ottman (Editor), Jennifer (Associate Editor Ottman (Editor), Ottman Jennifer (Editor), Rega Wood (Editor), Rega (Professor of Philosophy Emerita Wood (Editor), Wood Rega (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2022
• EAN: 9780197266908
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726690-8
• No. of pages: 786
• Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy