Liber de causis
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)Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
in Venice.
The Liber de causis ("Book of Causes") is a philosophical work composed in
The real authorship of the Liber remains a mystery, but most of the content is taken from the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus. This was first noticed by Thomas Aquinas, following William of Moerbeke's translation of Proclus' work into Latin. As such its author is now known as pseudo-Aristotle.[5]
References
- ^ Lydia Schumacher, "Liber de Causis," in Andrew Louth (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2022), retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ This is the title given by Bardenhewer 1882.
- ^ Dodds 1963, p. xxx.
- ^ Edited (some only partially) in Calma 2016.
- ^ Helmig & Steel 2015.
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Text and translations
Arabic
- Badawī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (1977). al-Iflāṭūniyya al-muḥdatha ʿinda al-ʿArab (2nd ed.). al-Kuwayt: Wakkālat al-Maṭbūʿāt. pp. 1–33. (edition of the Arabic)
- OCLC 6394425. (edition of the Arabic with German translation)
Latin
- Pattin, Adriaan, Le Liber de Causis. Edition établie a l'aide de 90 manuscrits avec introduction et notes, in Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 28 (1966) pp. 90–203
Hebrew
- Rothschild, Jean-Pierre: Les traductions hébraïques du Liber de causis latin. Dissertation Paris 1985, Bd. 1, S. 172–243 (synoptic edition of parts of the Hebrew translations)
Translations in modern languages
- Albayrak, Mehmet Barış: Nedenler Kitabı (Liber de Causis), Notos Yayınları, 2014. (Türkçe çeviri)
- Baumgarten, Alexander. Pseudo-Aristotel, Liber de causis, traducere, note şi comentariu de Alexander Baumgarten, Univers Enciclopedic, București, 2002 (Romanian translation)
- Brand, Dennis J. (ed.), tr. The Book of Causes: Liber de Causis (English translation): 1st ed. 1984 Marquette University Press, 2nd ed. 2001 Niagara University Press
- Magnard, Pierre; Boulnois, Olivier; Pinchard, Bruno; Solere, Jean-Luc. La demeure de l'être. Autour d'un anonyme. Etude et traduction du Liber de Causis, Paris 1990, Vrin (French translation)
- Schönfeld, Andreas. Liber de causis: Das Buch von den Ursachen, repr. 2005 Meiner Felix Verlag Gmbh ISBN 978-3-7873-1705-9: Latin text, German translation
Commentaries
- Albertus Magnus, Liber de causis et processu universitatis a prima causa (Latin)
- Calma, Dragos, ed. (2016). Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages: New Commentaries on 'Liber de Causis' and 'Elementatio Theologica'. Studia Artistarum. Vol. 42. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-55474-7. (in 2 volumes)
- D'Ancona, Cristina: Tommaso d'Aquino, Commento al Libro delle cause. Rusconi, Milano 1986: commentary by Thomas Aquinas
- Sancti Thomae de Aquino super librum De Causis expositio (Latin)
Secondary literature
- Alonso, Manuel Alonso. Las fuentes literarias del Liber de causis. Al-Andalus: revista de las escuelas de estudios árabes de Madrid y Granada, (10), 1945, pp. 345–382.
- Bächli-Hinz, Andreas. Monotheismus und neuplatonische Philosophie: Eine Untersuchung zum pseudo-aristotelischen Liber de causis und dessen Rezeption durch Albert den Großen, Frankfurt, Academia Verlag, 2002.
- Calma, Dragos, ed. (2016). Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages: New Commentaries on 'Liber de Causis' and 'Elementatio Theologica'. Studia Artistarum. Vol. 42. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-55474-7. (in 2 volumes)
- Calma, Dragos, ed. (2019). Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 1: Western Scholarly Networks and Debates. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition. Vol. 22. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34510-2.
- Calma, Dragos, ed. (2020). Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2: Translations and Acculturations. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition. Vol. 26. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34511-9.
- Calma, Dragos, ed. (2022). Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3: On Causes and the Noetic Triad. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition. Vol. 28. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-50132-4.
- D'Ancona, Cristina. Recherches sur le Liber de causis. Vrin, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7116-1225-2
- D'Ancona, Cristina; Taylor, Richard C. "Le Liber de causis", in: Richard Goulet and others (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, CNRS, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-271-06175-X, S. 599–647
- ISBN 0-19-814097-5.
- Helmig, Christoph; Steel, Carlos (2015). "Proclus". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Megías, Paloma Llorente. Liber de Causis: Indice y Concordancia, Florence, Olschki 2004.
- Ricklin, Thomas. Die 'Physica' und der 'Liber de causis' im 12. Jahrhundert. Zwei Studien. University press, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1995, ISBN 3-7278-0994-9
- Taylor, Richard C. "The Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khair (Liber de causis) in the Islamic Philosophical Milieu" in: Jill Kraye and others (eds.): Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages, Warburg Institute, London 1986, ISBN 0-85481-065-X, S. 37–52
See also
- Theology of Aristotle, another 9th-century Arabic adaptation of a Neoplatonic work (Plotinus' Enneads) falsely attributed to Aristotle
External links
- Latin: critical text of Adriaan Pattin (1966) revised by Hans Zimmermann 2001
- Arabic and German text: Bardenhewer edition (1822)
- Latin text (UBB Cluj)
- Latin text (Intratext)
- Editions (Bibliotheca Augustana)
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