Translations - Medieval Philosophy

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Sources of Greek and Arab Sciences in the Middle Ages

Originally compiled by Jerry Bieber, currently unavailable from his original website (http://inst.sfcollege.edu/~jbieber/)

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De Homine, T 1, Q 20, Art 5

Albert the Great on how light is communicated through a transparent medium

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On Nature, Book 6, Part 2, Chapters 4 and 5

Avicenna on the transmission of odor and sound via media

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Long Commentary on the de Anima, Liber 2, Dists 66 - 75

Averroes on light and optics.

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On Nature, Book 6 (De anima), Part 3, Chapters 1-5

Chapters 1-5 of Avicenna's discussion of light and optics, from his "De anima" (Book VI of his "libri de naturalibus", part of the Shifa). Chapters 6-7 will be published after further re...

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Aquinas, Super de Causis, Lectio 14

Part of Aquinas's late commentary on the Neoplatonic Book of Causes; this lecture deals with Intelligences, Souls and the exemplar cause.

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Aquinas, Super Sent, L1, D2, Q1, A2

Whether there are multiple attributes in God

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Aquinas, Super Sent, L2, D14, Q1, A3

Whether the motion of the heavens is due to an intelligence.

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Augustine, On Ideas

A translation of Augustine's short treatise on the Platonic ideas and their integration into a Christian framework. From the work "83 Diverse Questions".

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Boethius on the Mechanics of Sound (de Musica, 1, 3)

Boethius on the mechanics of sound and pitch.

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