Commentary on Plato’s Republic

Averroes, Commentary on Plato's Republic, trans. Ralph Lerner, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Averroes’ major statement on Platonic philosophy. From a review: “Because of the importance of Averroes (as a Muslim he is significant for both Platonic and Islamic thought), it is good to have Lerner’s new and thoughtful interpretation, with lucid introduction, three… More

Averroes depicted here with Porphyry, the author of the Isagoge, the subject of a middle and short commentary by Averroes. commentary

Short Commentaries

Isagoge
Categories
De Interpretatione
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analytics
Topics
Sophistic Elenchi
Rhetoric
Poetics
Physics
De Caelo
De Generatione et Corruptione
Meterologica
De Animalibus (parts of)
De Anima
Parva Naturalia (parts of)
Metaphysics

Middle Commentaries

Isagoge
Categories
De Interpretatione
Prior Analytics
Posterior Analytics
Topics
Sophistic Elenchi
Rhetoric
Poetics
Physics
De Caelo
De Generatione et Corruptione
Meterologica
De Anima
Metaphysics
Nichomachean Ethics

Detailed expositions of Aristotle’s works and Porphyry’s Isagoge.

Long Commentaries

Posterior Analytics
Physics
De Caelo
De Anima
Metaphysics

Word-for-word commentaries on the works of Aristotle which Averroes considered most important.