By Averroes,Rüdiger Arnzen

This booklet comprises the 1st English translation of Abūl-Walīd Ibn Rushd's (Averroes') so-called Epitome of Aristotle's Metaphysics . the unique Arabic textual content was once composed round 1160 as a kind of appendix to a chain of compendia of Aristotle's works on ordinary philosophy by way of the recognized Andalusian thinker. the 2 best issues approximately this paintings are the truth that Averroes restructures right here the Aristotelian textual content based on his personal perception of metaphysics, rather than his nice literal statement which follows the order of the Metaphysics part through part, and that he always revised this paintings over greater than 3 a long time. the current translation is predicated on quite a lot of records together with, except the on hand Arabic versions, a couple of medieval Arabic manuscripts now not considered in those variants in addition to the Renaissance translation into Latin ready by means of Jacob Mantinus. it truly is observed through a observation facing the main philosophical subject matters, Averroes' assets and difficulties of the transmission and structure of the textual content. additionally, crucial variation readings of the manuscripts are famous in footnotes beneath the translation.

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