Peter of Auvergne

Peter Auvergne
Born	1193 Ireland
Died	1274 , Sicily? unknown
Occupation	Philosopher
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Peter of Auvergne (Petrus Alverniensis, Petrus de Alvernia, Pierre d'Auvergne, Petrus de Crocq, Peter von Auvergne, Petrus de Cros, Petrus de Croso, Petrus de Croco, Petrus de Croc, d. 1304)

Life

"Peter of Auvergne was one of the major philosophers and theologians of the last quarter of the XIII century. He spent his entire career in the Paris University. There, he became Rector of the Arts Faculty in 1275 and eventually secular Master of Theology in 1296. He died in Clermont-Ferrand on September 25, 1304. On his life and bibliography see Hocedez 1933; Flüeler 19921; Gerwing 1996; Galle 2000; Galle 20031; Galle 2005; Weijers 2007.

The importance of his thought is witnessed both in the statements of his contemporaries and in the influence he exerted over the following generations. The widespread diffusion of his work is attested by the large number of extant manuscripts (almost 150). Given the fact that Peter was the continuator of some of Thomas Aquinas’s unfinished commentaries on Aristotle, scholarship tended to see Peter simply as the “doctor continuator”. In contrast, in recent decades his importance has been gradually recognized as a master with his own voice and, along with Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and John Buridan, one of the most important Aristotelian commentators of the Middle Ages." Historische Hilfswissenschaften und Mittellatein

Primary sources

• Commentary on the Sentences
• De Analytica Priora
• De syllogismo (Tractatus de syllogismo)
• Expositio in libros III et IV De Caelo et mundo (Expositio in tertium et quartum Coeli et mundi)
• Expositio in libros III-VIII Politicorum (Quaestiones super libros Politicorum, Commentarium in libros Politicorum, In libros Politicorum, Quaestiones in librum Politicorum, Scriptum super librum Politicorum)
• Expositio super libro De somno et vigilia (Sententiae super libro De somno et vigilia)
• Glossae super Doctrinale Alexandri de Villa Dei (Doctrinale, Grammatica metrica sermone exposita, Alexander de Villa Dei: Doctrinale)
• Grammatica supra modos significandi
• Quaestio utrum logica sit scientia
• Quaestiones grammaticales
• () Quaestiones super Artem veterem
  • (1) Quaestiones super Porphyrium
  • (2) Quaestiones super Praedicamentis (Quaestiones super Categorias Aristotelis, Quaestiones super libris Praedicamentorum)
  • (3) Quaestiones de universalibus
  • (4) Quaestiones super Perihermeneias
• Quaestiones super De animalibus l. 15-16 (Quaestiones super librum De animalibus, Inc.: 'Primo notanda quod animalia generata per putrefactionem in quo est masculus et femella habent generare sibi similia ...')
• Quaestiones super De motu animalium (Inc.: 'De motu animalium eo ... Sicut patet per Philosophum in tertio Phisicorum considerantem de natura necesse est ...")
• Quaestiones super De sensu et sensato (Quaestiones supra De sensu et sensato, Quaestiones super librum De sensu et sensato, Quaestiones De sensu et sensato)
• Quaestiones super I-II Priorum (Inc.: 'Primum quidem oportet dicere circa quid et de quo est intentio etc.')
• Quaestiones super libro De memoria et reminscentia
• Quaestiones super libro De somno et vigilia (Quaestiones super librum De somno et vigilia)
• () Quaestiones super libros De caelo et mundo (Quaestiones in de caelo et mundo, De caelo et mundo quaestiones 93 disputatae)
• Recensio 1 (Inc.: 'De natura scientia fere plurima circa corpora etc. Secundum Themistium super tertium De anima ...')
• Recensio 2 (Inc.: 'De natura scientia fere plurima. Sicut dicit Aristoteles in I huius quem pre manibus habemus exponendum ...')
• Recensio 3 (Inc.: 'Dicit Philosophus primo celi et mundi ab ente eterno aliis communicatum est ...')

• Quaestiones super libros Elenchorum (Quaestiones super Sophisticos Elenchos)
• Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum (Quaestiones super librum Ethicorum)
• Quaestiones super libros Physicorum (Quaestiones super Physicam, Quaestiones in Physicam Aristotelis)
• Quaestiones super libros Politicorum (Quaestiones in librum Politicorum, Inc.: 'Philosophus in secundo De generatione animalium dicit quod quecumque fiunt arte vel natura fiunt ab actu existente ...')
• Quaestiones super libros Posteriorum
• Quaestiones super librum De animalibus (Quaestiones super de animalibus, Inc.: 'Primo quaeritur utrum iste liber sit de animalibus tamquam de suiecto.')
• Quaestiones super librum De causis (Quaestiones super libro De causis, De causis)
• Quaestiones super librum De generatione et corruptione (In de generatione et corruptione)
• Quaestiones super librum De somno et vigilia
• Quaestiones super Metaphysicam (Quaestiones in Metaphysicam, Commentarium in Metaphysicam)
• Quaestiones super tertium De anima (Quaestiones super librum De anima)
• Quodlibeta
  • Quodlibet I
  • Quodlibet II
  • Quodlibet III
  • Quodlibet IV
  • Quodlibet V
  • Quodlibet VI
• Scriptum super libro De inundatione Nili
• Scriptum super librum VI Principiorum
• Sententia super libro De causis longitudinis et brevitatis vitae
• Sententia super libro De inspiratione et respiratione (Commentum in libris de respiratione et inspiratione)
• Sententia super libro De iuventute et senectute (Commentum in libris De iuventute et senectute)
• Sententia super libro De morte et vita (Commentarium in librum De morte et vita)
• Sententia super libro de motu animalium (De motibus animalium)
  • Recensio 1 (Inc.: 'Sicut innuit Philosophus in tertio Phisicorum, volentem considerare de natura necessarium est considerare de motu ...')
  • Recensio 2 (Inc.: 'Sicut dicit Philosophus in tertio phisicorum, considerantem de natura oportet considerare de motu ...')
  • Recensio 3 (Inc.: 'Sicut dicit Philosophus secundo Phisicorum, volentem considerare de natura necessarium est considerare de motu ...')

• Sententia super libros Meteororum (Quaestiones super librum Meteororum, Commentum in libros Meteorum, In Metheora continuatio)
• Sententia super librum De vegetabilibus et plantis (Sententia super libro De vegetabilibus et plantis)
• Sententia super quartum librum Meteororum

() Sophismata

• • Album potest esse nigrum
  • Animal est omnis homo
  • Homo est species
  • Nullus homo de necessitate est asinus
  • Ominis homo de necessitate est risibilis
  • Omnis homo est omnis homo
  • Omnis phoenix est
  • Socrates desinit esse non desinendo esse
  • Syllogizantem ponendum est terminos
  • Tantum unum est
• Super librum De physiognomia (Inc.: 'Sicut dicit Philosophus primo Rhetorice nobilitas est genti ..')

Secondary sources

• De Leemans, Pieter: "Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle's De Motu Animalium". In: RTPM 67,2 (2000), 272-360.
• Delhaye, Philippe: Questions sur la physique d´Aristote, Louvan 1941 [Philosophes belges, 15].
• Donati, Silvia: Commenti parigini alla Fisica degli anni 1270-1300 ca., in: Misc. Med. XXIII (Die Bibliotheca Amploniana), ed. A. Speer, Berlin/New York (de Gruyter) 1995, 136-256.
• Flüeler, Ch.: Rezeption und Interpretation der Aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter, Bd. 1-2, Amsterdam (Grüner) 1992 [Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 19].
• Flüeler, Christoph: "Politischer Aristotelismus im Mittelalter", S. 1-13, in: Vivarium 40,1 (2002).
• Flüeler, Christoph: Rezeption und Interpretation der Aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter, 1992.
• Galle, Griet: "Peter of Auvergne on the Unicity of the World". In: RTPM 68 (2001), 111-141.
• Galle, Griet: "Peter of Auvergne on the Unicity of the World". In: RTPM 68, 1 (2001), 111-141.
• Glorieux, La Littérature Quodlibétique II, 1935.
• Glorieux, Palémon: La littérature quodlibétique de 1260 à 1320, Paris II, 1935.
• Lohr, Charles: Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, in: Traditio 28 (1972), 281-396.
• Weijers, Olga: Le travail intellectuel à la Faculté des arts de Paris: textes et maîtres (ca. 1200-1500), VII, Turnhout (Brepols) 2007 [Studia Artistarum, 15].
• Zimmermann, Albert: Verzeichnis ungedruckter Kommentare zur Metaphysik und Physik des Aristoteles aus der Zeit von etwa 1250-1350, Leiden-Köln (Brill) 1971 [STGMA, 9].

Notability

This philosopher has 1 pages in the Blackwell Companion.