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Introduction.

...expression,¹ was received and welcomed by the Latin scholars The theologians and philosophers of the medieval West who wrote in Latin as "the last word of Peripatetic Peripatetic: Referring to the school of philosophy founded by Aristotle metaphysics"; that even after the error The mistaken belief that Aristotle was the author of the work was recognized very soon, the high esteem for the book did not diminish; but that this led, in the words of Hertling,² far "more to a decorative use, as it were, of its profound-sounding maxims than to a substantial influence on the core content of Scholasticism Scholasticism: The philosophical and theological system taught in medieval European universities."

In the third part of my work, I had to collect and examine material that lay quite far afield for non-Jewish hands and, furthermore, was scattered and fragmented to the highest degree. May the fruit of my labor serve as preliminary research for a Jewish scholar in further exploring the history of the book On Causes Original Latin: de causis within the Jewish tradition.

I now provide a detailed summary of the contents.

1 History of Scholastic Philosophy Original French: Hist. de la phil. scol. II, 1, 46.
2 Albert the Great Original Latin: Albertus Magnus (Cologne 1880) p. 68.