Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics by Fink Jakob L

Author:Fink, Jakob L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Reception of GDP in the Latin Middle Ages

It is well known that, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Nicomachean Ethics had an extraordinary importance for the development of ethics. As it is the case for most Aristotelian treatises, Nicomachean Ethics was known to the Latin West through translations from both Greek and Arabic.8 Burgundio of Pisa made the most ancient translation in the mid-twelfth century. Of this translation, only Books 2–3 (Ethica vetus) and 1 (Ethica nova) had a large diffusion, were objects of commentaries and are nowadays extant.9 Among the commentators of this ancient translation, we find Robert Kilwardby, the pseudo-Peckham and some anonymous authors.10 At the beginning of the 1240s, Hermann the German translated into Latin Averroes’s Middle Commentary, as well as the Summa alexandrinorum, that is an Arabic summary of the Nicomachean Ethics; these Arabo-Latin versions did not have the same impact as the Greco-Latin translations.11 In 1246/1247, Robert Grosseteste made a new complete translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, as well as of a selection of Greek commentaries. This translation (translatio lincolniensis), which served as base for a later revision made, according to some scholars, by William of Mœrbeke, was greatly influential and was commented by masters of arts and of theology, such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Peter of Auvergne, Radulphus Brito, John Buridan, Guiral Ot and Walter Burley.12

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