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Questiones magistri Johannis versoris super metaphisicam Arestotelis cu[m] textu eiusdem

by Versor, Johannes

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[Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, not after 1 November 1494]. Folio, 10.25 x 7.5 inches. Second edition. a-i6, k4, l-v6. 118 leaves. The first few leaves require marginal paper repairs. The binding is seventeenth century Italian parchment. The title is inscribed with some verses from OvidÕs Tristia. . ÒIn the arts faculty the Aristotelian commentaries of Johannes Versor, especially on the Metaphysics, written in Paris in the mid-fifteenth century, [provided an up-to-date textbook version of AristotleÕs work] summarizing AristotleÕs teaching on the natural world from a Thomist perspective. [É] Later theologians, such as the Heidelberg professor Johannes Wenck, the opponent of Nicholas of Cusa, and Johannes Versor in mid-century Paris, would fall back on the Thomist idea that human knowledge was grounded in sense-perception, and permitted some degree of knowledge of God, or natural theology; but they would reach their position in full awareness of the alternative solutions to the problem of essence and existence, and of the relation of possible to actual worlds. Underlying the more or less unsatisfactory solutions to these problems posed in the century from 1350 to 1450 was a slow change in the conceptus entis, the concept of ÔbeingÕ itself. Scotus had adumbrated a more dynamic notion of ÔbeingÕ by grounding it in the causal principle of the divine will: God impart to creation a vestige of his own creativity and freedom. A notion of ÔensÕ which embraced both creator and creation must imply some hierarchy or scale of Ôbeing,Õ which in turn opened the possibility of applying to it the measure of language of intention and remission developed in the course of the century by Thomas Bradwardine, Nicolas Oresme and others to describe variations of heat, velocity and other qualities.Ó (Quoted from Hebrew Bible Old Testament, by Magne Saebo.) For more on Versor see the Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. 

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