This study focuses on the development of Roger Bacon’s doctrine of accidental and monstrous events in two of his works: the early Questions on the Physics (c. 1245) and the later Communia naturalium (c. 1260-1270). It looks at the main sources of Bacon’s arguments, namely Aristotle’s doctrine on chance and luck (Physics II,4-6) and its interpretation by Avicenna and Averroes, and the solution to the problem of chance proposed in two important commentaries to the Physics by Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas.
Panti, C. (2013). Natura non intendit nisi quinque digitos. Caso, contingenza e mostruosità nelle Questiones supra octo libros Physicorum e nei Communia Naturalium di Ruggero Bacone. RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA, 68(1), 65-94.
Natura non intendit nisi quinque digitos. Caso, contingenza e mostruosità nelle Questiones supra octo libros Physicorum e nei Communia Naturalium di Ruggero Bacone
PANTI, CECILIA
2013-01-01
Abstract
This study focuses on the development of Roger Bacon’s doctrine of accidental and monstrous events in two of his works: the early Questions on the Physics (c. 1245) and the later Communia naturalium (c. 1260-1270). It looks at the main sources of Bacon’s arguments, namely Aristotle’s doctrine on chance and luck (Physics II,4-6) and its interpretation by Avicenna and Averroes, and the solution to the problem of chance proposed in two important commentaries to the Physics by Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.