Eli (or Elijah) ben Joseph Chabillo ( or Habillo) was a Spanish philosopher who lived in

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, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century. He was an admirer of the Christian scholastics, and studied

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in order to translate into

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some of their works, especially those dealing with

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. The works which he partly translated and partly adapted (some bearing his name; others, though anonymous, known to be his) were the following * By

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wit ...

** ''Quæstiones Disputatæ, Quæstio de Anima'' ** ''De Animæ Facultatibus'' (Hebrew title ''Ma'amar be-Kochot ha-Nefesh''), published by

Adolf Jellinek Adolf Jellinek ( he, אהרן ילינק ''Aharon Jelinek''; 26 June 1821 in Drslavice, Moravia – 28 December 1893 in Vienna) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at t ...

in ''Philosophie und Kabbala'', Leipzig, 1854 ** ''De Universalibus'' ** ''She'elot Ma'amar be-Nimtza ube-Mahut'' questions on Thomas Aquinas' treatise on being and quality * By Occam ** Three treatises of ''Summa Totius Logices'' to which he added an appendix ** ''Quæstiones Philosophicæ'' * By

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 ph ...

** ''De Causa'' thirty-two premises, with their explanations. According to Jellinek and Moritz Steinschneider, Chabillo also translated, anonymously,

Vincent of Beauvais Vincent of Beauvais ( la, Vincentius Bellovacensis or ''Vincentius Burgundus''; c. 1264) was a Dominican friar at the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont Abbey, France. He is known mostly for his ''Speculum Maius'' (''Great mirror''), a major work ...

' ''De Universalibus'' under the title ''Ma'amar Nikbad bi-Kelal''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chabillo, Elijah Ben Joseph Spanish philosophers 15th-century philosophers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 15th-century translators 15th-century Spanish writers