Peter of Auvergne (died 1304) was a French philosopher and theologian.

Life

He was a canon of

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; some biographers have thought that he was

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, because a Bull of

Boniface VIII Pope Boniface VIII ( la, Bonifatius PP. VIII; born Benedetto Caetani, c. 1230 – 11 October 1303) was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. The Caetani family was of baronial ...

of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris a certain Peter of Croc (Cros), already canon of Clermont; but it is more likely that they are distinct. Peter of

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was in Paris in 1301,Script. Prædicat., I, 489 and, according to several accounts, was a pupil of

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. In 1279, while the various nations of the

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were quarrelling about the rectorship,

Simon de Brion Pope Martin IV ( la, Martinus IV; c. 1210/1220 – 28 March 1285), born Simon de Brion, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1281 to his death on 28 March 1285. He was the last French pope to have ...

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, appointed Peter of Auvergne to that office; in 1296 he was elected to it.

Works

His published works are: *"Supplementum Commentarii S. Thomæ in tertium et quartum librum de cælo et mundo" (in "Opera S. Thomæ", II, ad finem) *commentaries on

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

's ''Meteororum'', ''De juventute et senectute'', ''De longitudine et brevitate vitae'', ''De motu animalium''. He has been credited with a supplement to Aquinas' ''

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''. Peter also left numerous treatises which are either at the

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, or at l'

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: "Sex quodlibeta", long discussions after the manner of St. Thomas; "Sophisma Determinatum"; "Quæstiones super totam logicam veterem Arist."; "Quæstiones super Porphyrium"; "In Arist. Metaphysicam"; "In libros Politicorum"; "De somno et vigilia"; "De veget. et plantis"; "De anima".

Translations

*''Questions on Aristotle's ''De caelo'' '', ed. G Galle, (Leuven, 2003) *''Commentary on Aristotle's ''On Length and Shortness of Life'' '', ed. M Dunne, ''Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age'' 69, (2002), 153-200 * Robert Andrews (1988) ''Peter of Auvergne's commentary on Aristotle's 'Categories': Edition, translation, and analysis. (Volumes I and II)'' UMI Dissertation Express (Ref. n° 8804534) *''Questions on Books I and II of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics'', ed. A Celano, ''Mediaeval Studies'' 48, (1986), 1-110 *''The Commentary of Peter of Auvergne on Aristotle's Politics'', ed. GM Grech, (Rome, 1967) *''Questiones in Metaphysicam'', ed. A Monahan, in JR O'Donnell, ed, ''Nine Mediaeval Thinkers: A Collection of Hitherto Unedited Texts'', (Toronto, 1955), 145-181

Notes

References

* Du Boulay, Hist. Univ. de Paris, III (Paris, 1666), 709; Hist. ant. eccl. XIV (Paris, 1701), 214 *

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, Cart. Univ. Paris, I (Paris, 1889), 930; II, 69, 90 * Fabricius, Johann Albert, Bibl. med aet., V (Paris, 1736), 711 * Féret, La Faculté de théologie de Paris, III (Paris, 1896), 221-7. * Lajard in Hist. litt. de France, XXV (Paris, 1869), 93, 114
Quaestiones super Praedicamentis
ed. Robert Andrews. *

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, ''Comm. de script. eccl.'', III (Paris, 1722), 927
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* Quétif- Échard, Script. Prœd., I (Paris, 1719), 489 * *

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