This volume contains the first edition of the Latin version of the Middle Commentary of Averroes on Aristotleâs Nicomachean Ethics Book X, the original arabic version being lost. It is accompanied by an annotated French translation. The volume also contains a full study of the manuscript tradition of the Latin text and sets outs the principles used in the edition, which takes into account, where necessary, the Hebrew version of the Commentary. Two further studies complete the volume: the first is devoted to the genre of âMiddle Commentaryâ (talḫīṣ); the second considers how Averroes uses an analogy with medicine to place ethics at the heart of practical philosophy, and how, in a manner that is foreign to Aristotle, he conceives of ethics as a âscience.â
Anyone interested in philosophy, especially ethics and moral philosophy, in the Arabic reception of Aristotelian philosophy, in Averroes, and in Aristotle.