Author: Aristotle & Rousseau, Mary F [translator]
Title: The Apple Or Aristotle's Death - De Pomo Sive De Morte Aristotilis
Description: Marquette University Press, 1968, 1st edition. Paperback, F. x+81pp, a nice fine copy. Text unmarked. Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation 18. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ Translation & study of the Apple, a death bed dialogue in which a dying Aristotle talks with his follwers on the Supreme Value of Philosophy as the way to Salvation. Called the Apple, from the apple fragrance Aristotle inhales - its life-sustaining properties keeping him alive. The manuscript is a medieval attempt to make the works of Aristotle acceptable to Muslim and Christain thinkers of the day.

Keywords: aristotle, philosophy, death, ethics, medieval literature