René Antoine Gauthier

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René Antoine Gauthier , religious name Antoine , OP (born October 1, 1913 in La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon ; † January 27, 1999 ) was a French Dominican and historian of philosophy .

Gauthier, whose father was a teacher, passed his Baccalauréat in Rennes in 1931 . He then began preparing for the École normal supérieure , but interrupted it to enter the Dominican Province of Lyon in 1933 . After his novitiate in Angers , he made his profession on November 3, 1934 and continued his studies in Saint-Alban-Leysse , under the direction of Père Payssac. After a break from military service from 1936 to 1937, he was ordained a priest on August 25, 1940.

Due to severe tuberculosis , he spent his first stay in the Alps from July 1941 to November 1942 during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany . On Saulchoir , the Order Academy of the Province of the Order in France, he received the 1942 Licentiate and editing, preparing a dissertation on the generosity ( magnanimitas ) before, which was published 1951st A relapse forced him to return to Assy from 1947 to 1949.

In 1949 he was assigned to the Anger convent and subsequently to that of Saint-Alban-Leysse, where he stayed for two years. In October 1952 he was assigned to the Commissio Leonina , the project for the production of a text-critical version of all writings of Thomas Aquinas , and resided in the Saulchoir, in L'Arbresle near Lyon, in Santa Sabina and finally in 1974 in Grottaferrata . During this time he published the commentaries of Thomas Aquinas on ethics, on De anima , on De sensu et sensato , on Peryermenias , the Second Analytics of Aristotle and the Quodlibet , as well as the Latin translations of the Nicomachean Ethics of the Middle Ages. He also wrote a monograph on the ethics of Aristotle. Together with his brother Jean-Yves Jolif , he published the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle in a translation and a commentary of almost a thousand pages.

After a serious illness that hit him in May 1997, he passed away on January 27, 1999.

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  • Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 83 (1999), pp. 548-556.

Edition of the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

  • René Antoine Gauthier (OP) and Jean Yves Jolif (OP), L 'Éthique à Nicomaque. Introduction, traduction et commentaire. T. I: Introduction et traduction . Publications Universitaires, Louvain; B. Nauwelaerts, Paris 1959. - Review by Édouard des Places , in: L'antiquité classique 28, 1959, pp. 366–367, (online)
  • René Antoine Gauthier (OP) and Jean Yves Jolif (OP), L 'Éthique à Nicomaque. Introduction, traduction et commentaire. T. II: Commentaire . Publications Universitaires, Louvain; B. Nauwelaerts, Paris 1959. - Review by Édouard des Places, in: L'antiquité classique 29, 1960, p. 457, (online)

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SURNAME Gauthier, René Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gauthier, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Dominican and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH La Seyne near Toulon
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1999