Three Anonymous Sets of Questions on Aristotle's "Physics" Related to John Buridan's "Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum": (secundum ultimam lecturam)
- Autores: Paul J.J.M. Bakker
- Localización: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, ISSN 0068-4023, Nº. 58, 2016, págs. 233-323
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article offers a detailed presentation of three anonymous, unedited sets of questions on Aristotle’s Physics. The commentaries survive in manuscripts in Oxford, Munich and Sint Agatha (Netherlands). A comparison of the lists of quaestiones suggests that there is a close correspondence between the three commentaries, on the one hand, and the ultima lectura of John Buridan’s Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum, on the other. Judging from the lists of quaestiones, it makes sense to attach the label secundum Buridanum to all three commentaries. However, the texts of the three commentaries differ significantly both from each other and from Buridan’s lecture. To illustrate the differences, in the Appendix I present editions of one question from Book I of the Physics and one question from Book III from each of the three commentaries. The edited questions correspond with Book I q.4 in Buridan’s ultima lectura, “Utrum in omni scientia ex cognitione principiorum, causarum et elementorum contingat alia scire et intelligere, scilicet principiata, causata et elementata,” and Book III q.18 of his ultima lectura, “Utrum in quolibet continuo infinitae sint partes.” It appears that one of the three anonymous commentators copies Buridan’s text verbatim or follows its precise structural arrangement. Buridan’s text seems to have functioned as a framework or a point of departure used by the anonymous authors to compose their own commentaries.
