QUADERNI DI NOCTUA
La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno. Studi e testi
History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age. Studies and Editions
Autore / Author: Franco De Capitani
Affiliazione / Author affiliation: Università degli Studi di Parma
Titolo / Title: Aristotele e il primo Agostino secondo gli apporti della critica recente
Abstract: This work sheds light on the presence of Aristotelian elements in Augustine’s early works, which was more substantial than what it is usually believed. In fact, the young African rhetorician did not only know Aristotle’s Categoriae, which he read when he was a student in Carthage, but also other works by him, such as his De interpretatione, already translated into Latin at Augustine’s time, as well as Aristotelian-inspired works. That is the case of Themistius’s paraphrases of Aristotle’s Analytica and his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysica, which Augustine knew well, especially with regard to book IV. Moreover, Augustine knew the De mundo by Apuleius, who perhaps was also the author of a Peri hermeneias, and who translated during the second century several Aristotelian-inspired works on various natural topics. Moreover, Augustine read the summaries of Plotinus’s Enneades, translated into Latin by Marius Victorinus, and Cicero’s Hortensius, which constitutes a commentary on Aristotle’s De interpretatione.
Keywords: Young Augustine; Aristotle; philosophical knowledge.
English title: Aristotle and the First Augustine According to the Contributions of Recent Scholarship
DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-8
Volume: 3
Pagine / Pages: 233-280
Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/06/2016
Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua3-8
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