Alfred of Sareshel

Alfred von Sareshel (also: Alfredus Sareshalensis; Latin: Alfredus Anglicus ) was an English philosopher of the 13th century. His life data are uncertain. Sometimes they are given as 1175-1245.

Alfred von Sareshel is regarded as one of the first representatives of the new emerging Aristotelianism. He lived about 1190 to 1200 in Spain and was probably in conjunction with the School of Translators of Toledo. His main work is " De motu cordis " ( 1217 ). Alfred was still in the tradition of Neoplatonic metaphysics, but already took into account the psychology of Aristotle and the physiology of Galen. He described the heart as the house of the soul, from which they control all life processes. The soul is incorporeal, spiritual, simple, indivisible and the entelechy of the body.

Works

• De motu cordis (On the motion of the heart ) dedicated to Alexander Neckam ( ed. by CS Barach (Innsbruck, 1878, reprint 1968 ) and Clemens BÄUMKER: Alfred's of Sareshel ( Alfredus Anglicus ) magazine " De motu cordis " Contributions to the History. the philosophy of the Middle Ages XXIII, 1-2, Aschendorff, Münster 1923)
• " De Rerum naturis " ( On the Nature of Things)
• " De Educatione Accipitrum " (On the education of the falcons)
• Five books on Boethius ' De consolatione philosophiae "
• " De Musica " ( about the music )
• Various commentaries on Aristotle " Metheora " (Meteorology) (Alfred of Sareshel 's Commentary on the Metheora of Aristotle: Critical Edition, Introduction, and Notes ( Studies and texts to intellectual history of the Middle Ages, Volume XIX) Brill, 1988, ISBN 978-90-04 - 08453-7 )
• Translation of the pseudo- Aristotelian treatise " de plantis " from Arabic (edited with an introduction by Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer: Nicolai de Damasceni plantis libri duo, Aristoteli vulgo adscripti, Lipsiae 1841)

Itemization

• Philosopher of the Middle Ages
• English
• Born in the 12th century
• Died in the 13th century
• Man