Aristotle
Book of Causes (Liber de causis)
Traditional attribution
Book of Causes (Liber de causis)
Liber de causis (Kitāb al-īḍāḥ fī al-khayr al-maḥḍ)
Thirty-one propositions on the first cause, being as the first of created things, the intelligences and the souls, and the hierarchy of causes. It formed part of the University of Paris curriculum alongside the authentic works and was decisive for medieval Neoplatonic metaphysics.
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Authorship note
A pseudepigraph: an Arabic work composed in the ninth century on the basis of Proclus's Elements of Theology; translated into Latin at Toledo by Gerard of Cremona in the twelfth century and read as a work of Aristotle until Thomas Aquinas recognised Proclus in it.
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Exposición sobre el «Libro de las causas» (comentario de Tomás de Aquino, con el texto)
The Conscious LibraryExposición sobre el «Libro de las causas» (comentario de Tomás de Aquino, con el texto)
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 2000
ISBN 9788431317737
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- Generation of Animals
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Poetics
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Will · 322
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
Sources
- Kraye, Jill; Ryan, W. F.; Schmitt, C. B. (eds.). Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and Other Texts. Londres: The Warburg Institute, 1986.
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