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Glossa in Johannis de Janduno “Utrum eternis repugnet habere causam efficientem”

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Glossa

Date

1344

  • Anselmus gave this solutio “in domo Minorum” in 1344, as reported in the manuscript (fol. 24v), although we do not know whether he did so in the context of a disputatio or a repetitio (Maier 1944: 141).
  • Question by John of Jandun:
    • Incipit: Questio est utrum eternis repugnet habere causam efficientem. Et videtur primo quod sic.
    • Explicit: Explicit quaestio determinata per venerabilem magistrum Johannem de Jandono scripta pro reverendo in Christo patre et domino domino P. de Nigrono Ianuaensi abbate Sancti Gregorii de Urbe per me Raymondus de Saleta, sedente Alexandro papa sexto, pontificatus sui anno 2°, 8 Novembris 1493. Deo gratias.
  • Efficient cause
  • Eternity
  • Natural Philosophy
  • Studies

    • Maier, A., Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des italienischen Averroismus, im XIV. Jh., in “Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken”, Rome 1944
    • Ermatinger, C.J., Averroism in Early Fourteenth Century Bologna, “Mediaeval Studies” 16, 1954: 43
    • Maurer A., John of Jandun and the Divine Causality, “Mediaeval Studies” 17, 1955: 185-207

    Editions

    • Kuksewicz, Z. ed., Averroisme Bolonais Au Xive Siècle: Edition De Textes, Wroclaw-VarsovieCracovie 1965: 113-124

    Nota, quod Commentator 9 Metaphisice commento 16 dicit, quod sunt quedam res, quarum finis est agere tantum et cetera.

    Septimo, unumquodque agit, secundum quod est in actu, sed deus est maxime in actu, ergo et cetera.

    Matteo Stettler