Averroes: Commentaire Moyen Sur Le de Interpretatione (Sic Et Non,)

by ibn Rushd

Ne a Cordoue en 1126, mort en 1198, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), juge, medecin et philosophe andalou, a laisse une oeuvre outre des traites polemiques et de nombreux essais, il a consacre a Platon, et surtout a Aristote, des commentaires appeles a exercer une grande influence dans les domaines de la logique, de la metaphysique, de la noetique. Ce volume est le premier d'une serie presentant, en traduction francaise, l'ensemble de son activite exegetique sur la somme logique qu'est l'Organon aristotelicien. On trouvera, accompagnees de l'annotation essentielle, les oeuvres d'Averroes sur le traite De l'interpretation, ou Aristote etablit la doctrine de la proposition simple et de ses elements un commentaire moyen et deux essais polemiques contre al-Farabi et Avicenne. La traduction est precedee d'une introduction qui replace cet ouvrage dans la riche tradition, arabe, grecque et latine de la logique aristotelicienne.

208 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published June 13, 2000

About the author

Arabic version: ابن رشد
Commentaries of well known Arab philosopher, jurist, and physician Averroës or Averrhoës, also ibn Rushd, of Spain on Aristotle exerted a strong influence on medieval Christian theology.

Abu'l-Walid Ibn Rushd, better as Averroes, stands as a towering figure in the history of Islamic as that of west European thought. In the Islamic world, he played a decisive role in the defense of Greeks against the onslaughts of the Ash'arite (Mutakallimun), led by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, and in the rehabilitation.

A common theme throughout his writings properly understood religion with no incompatibility. His contributions took many forms, ranging from his detailed, his defense against the attacks of those who condemned it as contrary to Islam and his construction of a form, cleansed as far as possible at the time of Neoplatonism.

After centuries of nearly total oblivion in west Europe, world recognition as early as the 13th century contributed to the rediscovery of the master. That instrumental discovery launched Scholasticism in Latin and the Renaissance of the 15th-century Europe in due course. Since the publication of [title:Averroes et l'averroisme] of Ernest Renan in 1852, notwithstanding very little attention to work of Averroes in English, French showed greater interest.

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