Commentaries on Aristotle's "On Sense and What Is Sensed" and "On Memory and Recollection" (Thomas Aquinas in Translation)

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Commentaries on Aristotle’s On Sense and What Is Sensed and On Memory and Recollection ) _ T H OM A S AQU I NA S I N T R A N S L AT I O N E D I TO R I A L BOARD Kevin White, The Catholic University of America, Editorial Director Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America Thérèse-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America David M. Gallagher Jorge J. E. Gracia, State University of New York at Buffalo Timoth Noone, The Catholic University of America John F. Wippel, The Catholic University of America David J. McGonagle, The Catholic University of America Press S T. T H OMA S AQU I NAS Commentaries on Aristotle’s On Sense and What Is Sensed and On Memory and Recollection ) _ translated with introductions and notes by Kevin White and Edward M. Macierowski The Catholic University of America Press Washington, D.C. Copyright © 2005 The Catholic University of America Press All rights reserved The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information Science—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274. [In Aristotelis libros De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia commentarium. English] Commentaries on Aristotle’s “On sense and what is sensed” and “On memory and recollection” / translated with an introduction and notes by Kevin White and Edward M. Macierowski.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Thomas Aquinas in translation) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8132-1379-7 (cloth : alk. paper)— ISBN 0-8132-1382-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Aristotle. De sensu et sensibilibus. 2. Senses and sensation—Early works to 1800. 3. Aristotle. De memoria et reminiscentia. 4. Memory (Philosophy)—Early works to 1800. I. White, Kevin, 1952– II. Macierowski, E. M., 1948– III. Title. IV. Series. B444.T4613 2005 121’.35—dc22 2003023086 “In consulting the excellent commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Parva Naturalia of Aristotle, I was struck at once with its close resemblance to Hume’s Essay on association. The main thoughts were the same in both, the order of the thoughts was the same, and even the illustrations differed only by Hume’s occasional substitution of more modern examples. I mentioned the circumstance to several of my literary acquaintances , who admitted the closeness of the resemblance, and that it seemed too great to be explained by mere coincidence; but they thought it improbable that Hume should have held the pages of the angelic Doctor worth turning over. But some time after Mr. Payne, of the King’s mews, shewed Sir James Mackintosh some odd volumes of St. Thomas Aquinas, partly perhaps from having heard that Sir James (then Mr.) Mackintosh had in his lectures passed a high encomium on this canonized philosopher, but chiefly from the fact, that the volumes had belonged to Mr. Hume, and had here and there marginal marks and notes of reference in his own hand writing. Among these volumes was that which contains the Parva Naturalia, in the old Latin version, swathed and swaddled in the commentary afore mentioned!” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia literaria, Chapter V ) _ ...