Radulphus Brito

Radulphus Brito
Born	1270 France
Died	1320 Paris, France unknown
Occupation	Philosopher
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Radulphus Brito (Radulphus Reginaldi Britonis, vorübergehend fälschlich identifiziert mit: Raoul de Hotot, Raoul le Briton, b. c. 1270, d. c 1320), was probably born in Brittany. He was Master of arts in the university of Paris in 1296, and joined masters in theology faculty in 1311. Very few of his works are edited, although he was a prolific and apparently influential writer. He was one of a group of grammarians called the modistae or modists who flourished around Paris from about 1260 to 1310, so-called because they wrote on the mode of signifying. Their aim was to make grammar a science in Aristotle's sense, i.e. to explain it, not just to describe it. The group also included Martin of Dacia, Boethius of Dacia, Siger de Courtrai, and Thomas of Erfurt.

Primary sources

manuscripts

Philosophical works still unedited include questions on the Categories, the Perihermeneias, Sex principiorum, De divisione of Boethius, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations, Physics, Meteorologica and Parva mathematicalia, and Questions on the Metaphysics.

editions

The only works that have been edited are

• Questions on book III of De anima,
• questions on Boethius' Topics
• Questions on Priscian minor
• the prologues to his Questions on the Old Logic
• Questions on the Sophistical Refutations,
• some sophismata
• a long section from the Questions on Porphyry's Isagoge

Notability

This philosopher has 2 pages in the Blackwell Companion.