1) first to bring to light the principles which underlie Averroes’ project and to situate this project in the large scale history of the cosmological doctrines which take their starting point in Aristotle’s De caelo ;
2) second to describe Averroes exegetical methods, varying with the format taken on by his commentaries. A special attention will be paid to his ‘formalist’ style and to his efforts to show that Aristotle’s exposition conforms maximally to the demonstrative model of the Posterior Analytics. We intend to produce a French annotated translation of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on the De Caelo with a view to reconstructing a key moment in the history of medieval cosmological doctrines. This work will be carried out by combining the skills of science and philosophy historians, as well as Arabic, Hebraic and Latin philologists, this commentary being available in Hebrew and Latin. Building on the work already completed on the first book, we will study this year the commentary on the De caelo’s second book.
Organizer : Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS).
Seminar of the UMR 7219, CNRS-Paris 7 Diderot University with EPHE and Paris I University.
PROGRAM 2015-2016
Monthly, on Fridays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Université Paris Diderot, building Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris – Campus map with access. Metro : line 14, RER C, stop : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. Bus : 62 89 325 64 / Bibliothèque rue Mann
September 25, room Malevitch, 483A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
October 23, room Gris, 734A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
November 27, room Gris, 734A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
December 11, room Malevitch, 483A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
January 22, room Mondrian, 646A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde (Great Commentary taken into account)"
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
February 19, room Mondrian, 646A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde (Great Commentary taken into account)
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
March 18, room Mondrian, 646A
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde (Great Commentary taken into account)"
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
June 17, room Mondrian, 646A
Ahmad Hasnaoui (CNRS, CHSPAM-SPHERE/UMR 7219)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 8-9. L’unicité du monde (avec prise en compte du Grand commentaire)
Révision de la traduction de CMDC I, 10-12. L’éternité du monde