Homo est animal civile as melius est duos esse simul quam unum An overview on the biblical quotations in Albert the Great’s Commentary on the Politics
The present paper intends to conduct a pilot study on the source of Albert the Great’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, by focusing on the function played by the biblical references. In general, the Dominican theologian is reluctant to use quotations from the Holy Scriptures to comment on Aristot...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Edizioni Studio Domenicano
2019
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Divus Thomas
Year: 2019, Volume: 122, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-143 |
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| Summary: | The present paper intends to conduct a pilot study on the source of Albert the Great’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, by focusing on the function played by the biblical references. In general, the Dominican theologian is reluctant to use quotations from the Holy Scriptures to comment on Aristotelian treatises and, as is well known, this particular approach is a declared methodological choice. The Commentarium in octo libros Politicorum Aristotelis, however, is a significant exception. After providing a preliminary overview of the explicit and implicit quotations from the Old and New Testament contained in this commentary, the study attempts to circumscribe some uses of biblical quotations within the historical examples and the moral teachings provided by Aristotle. L’articolo vuole essere un contributo allo studio delle fonti che caratterizzano il commento alla Politica di Aristotele di Alberto Magno. Generalmente, il teologo domenicano non è incline ad utilizzare citazioni dalla Sacra Scrittura per spiegare i contenuti dei testi aristotelici. Tuttavia questo commento sembra essere un’eccezione. Dopo aver offerto una panoramica statistica sulle citazioni dell’Antico e del Nuovo Testamento presenti nel testo, lo studio considera alcuni usi specifici dei riferimenti biblici, in modo particolare relativamente ai numerosi esempi storici e agli insegnamenti morali che Aristotele propone nel suo testo. |
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