Richard Rufus of Cornwall

In Aristoetelis de Generatione Et Corruptione
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-726499-7
Verlag: British Academy

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi

Richard Rufus of Cornwall was an early Scholastic philosopher-theologian who taught at the Universities of Paris and Oxford between 1231 and 1255. In those years he played a vital part in the transformation of philosophy and theology in early thirteenth-century Western Europe. He pioneered the teaching of metaphysics, physics, chemistry, psychology, and ethics. At Paris Rufus gave the earliest lectures on Aristotelian physics and metaphysics of which a record
survives. Although acknowledged as a great scholar in his lifetime, his devotion to the Franciscan ideal of humility led him deliberately to seek obscurity and for 500 years his work was lost or misattributed. This is the second volume of Richard Rufus's writings in the Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi
series, a companion to In Physicam Aristotelis also edited by Professor Rega Wood.

De Generatione et corruptione is particularly notable for its accounts of divisibility, growth and Aristotelian mixture. This transforms our understanding of the introduction of Aristotelian natural philosophy to the West and provides insight into the early history and prehistory of chemistry.

Zielgruppe

Historians of philosophy, medieval scholars, and historians of science

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Neil

Wood, Rega

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
De Generatione et Corruptione
Liber I
Liber II
Appendix: Excerpta ex Glossa Abrincensi

Über Autor(innen)

Lewis, Neil
Professor Neil Lewis is Assistant Editor of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project, and is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Admissions at Georgetown University.

Wood, Rega
Professor Rega Wood is General Editor of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project at Stanford University. From September 2011 she will be at Indiana University.

Professor Rega Wood is General Editor of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project at Stanford University. From September 2011 she will be at Indiana University.



Professor Neil Lewis is Assistant Editor of the Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project, and is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Admissions at Georgetown University.