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Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima, 1993
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1993
Published in Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism
Pages 91-112
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)
Neoplatonic exposition of classical Greek philosophy includes two kinds of reinterpretation. The first and most basic is, of course, the reading of Plato himself as a Neoplatonist. This is, it goes without saying, to be found primarily in all the independent works of Neopla­ tonism, as well as in commentaries on works of Plato. The other, with which readers of the Aristotelian commentators are more often concerned, is the Platonization of Aristotle. The latter is crucial to our understanding of any Neoplatonist commentator, both in himself and also as an authority on Aristotle. And since we are dealing with a text at least superficially based on Aristotle, I shall devote most of this paper to some of the somewhat strange interpretations of him to be found in Book 1 of the De anima commentary. At the same time this particular book also offers an opportunity, which the commentary on what will have seemed to him the more obviously philosophically in­ teresting parts of the De anima does not1, to see how Simplicius works in the area of Plato interpretation, and we shall look at the way in which Plato and Aristotle are both subjected to similar tech­ niques of interpretation. [p. 91]

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Alexandria as a Center of Greek Philosophy in Later Classical Antiquity, 1993
By: Blumenthal, Henry J.
Title Alexandria as a Center of Greek Philosophy in Later Classical Antiquity
Type Article
Language English
Date 1993
Journal Illinois Classical Studies
Volume 18
Pages 307-325
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Any discussion of Greek Alexandria may properly take its starting point from the work of P. M. Fraser, even if only to dissent from it. In the preface to Ptolemaic Alexandria Fraser observes that philosophy was one of the “items” that “were not effectively transplanted to Alexandria.”1 In his chapter on philosophy, talking of the establishment of the main philosophical schools at Athens, Fraser writes that it “remained the centre of philosophical studies down to the closing of the schools by Justinian in A.D. 563.”2 The first of these statements is near enough the truth, since the Alexandria of the Ptolemies was not distinguished in philosophy as ifwas in literature or science, though even then some important things happened during that period too. But the implication that this situation continued during the Roman and early Byzantine periods is misleading, and by the end of the period simply false.3 The purpose of this paper is to examine some aspects of the considerable contribution that Alexandria made to the philosophical tradition that continued into the Islamic and Christian middle ages and beyond, and to show that it may lay claim to have been at least equal to that of Athens itself. [Introduction, p. 307]

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Soul Vehicles in Simplicius, 1993
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)
Title Soul Vehicles in Simplicius
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1993
Published in Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism
Pages 173-188
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)
There has been a not inconsiderable amount of discussion of the nature and function of the "exiftia — or exochema — the body or bodies made of not quite bodily substance which served as an intermediary between body and soul in various Neoplatonisms from Porphyry, or even arguably Plotinus, down to and including Proclus. Rather less attention, and, in Simplicius’ case virtually none, has been paid to the nature and role of such intermediary vehicles in the Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle. The purpose of the following pages will be to examine the use of the concept in Simplicius. [Introduction, p. 173]

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition, 1991
By: Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1991
Publication Place Oxford
Publisher Clarendon Press
Series Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)

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The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories, 1991
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut, Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 175-189
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
n 19671 had only just begun to study Simplicius’ commentary on Epictetus’ Enchiridion, and I had had at that time my first few doubts about whether Praechter’s views on the dogmatic position of Alexandrian Neo­ platonism were well founded.2 Praechter had at least formulated these views in the form of hypotheses, but despite his circumspection, they had quickly become unassailable certainties for historians, universally admired and accepted for over fifty years. It was just at this point that I came across the contribution of A. C. Lloyd, who dared to say3 that Praechter had misread or read too hastily the passages in Simplicius’ commentary on Epictetus which referred to first principles, on which Praechter largely based his theory. It was Lloyd again, in the same paper,4 who put historians of philosophy on their guard against the tendency (likewise deriving from Praechter) to minimize, or even to refuse to acknowledge, the importance of the fact that for a long time all the Neoplatonists believed in a fundamental agreement between Plato’s philosophy and Aristotle’s. In my book Le Problème du néo­ platonisme alexandrin: Hiéroclès et Simplicius’ I simply followed the track marked out by Lloyd. And even now, in the translation with com­ mentary of Simplicius’ commentary on the Categories which has been undertaken under my editorship,5 61 am attempting to carry further the critique of Praechter’s hypotheses which Lloyd began.This will also be the case in the present paper, which will bring out some of the results which might be reached by working on the Neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories. [pp. 175 f.]

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Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy, 1991
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 191-205
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
In 1911 H. Kurfess obtained a doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the history of the interpretation of nous poietikos and nous pathetikos} Notoriously the expression nous poietikos never occurs in the text of Aristotle, but its derivation from De mim. 430*11-12 is an easy step, and when philosophers and commentators subsequently discuss it, we know what it is that they are talking about, even if its nature and status remained, and remain, controversial. Similarly nouspathetikos, or rather ho pathetikos nous, occurs only once in the pages of Aristotle, but appears often, if less frequently than nous poietikos, in the texts of his successors and interpreters. In its case, however, though the expression occurs in Aristotle’s De anima, its reference is unclear. To aggravate matters, nous pathetikos quite often appears in his successors in contexts which seem to have nothing to do with the intellect. Yet while nous poietikos has generated an enormous literature from the ancient world up until today, the phrase nous pathetikos has received nothing like the attention of its partner. This paper will examine some of its uses in both commentators and Neo- platonist philosophers in the hope of explaining its appearance and clarifying its meaning. [Introduction, p. 191]

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Aristotle’s Treatment of the Doctrine of Parmenides, 1991
By: Kerferd, George B., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Aristotle’s Treatment of the Doctrine of Parmenides
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 1-7
Categories no categories
Author(s) Kerferd, George B.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 7]: id Aristotle envisage the same criticism as this of Parmenides? Some help here may be derived from a consideration of what Aristotle says in Metaph. i,986bi8-987a2. Aristotle clearly felt that one of his own greatest discoveries was the need for Matter as a substrate to explain how what is one in definition can come to appear or be seen as many in experience. It is perhaps with this in mind that he proceeds to speak in praise of Parmenides’ insight and declares of him that claiming that besides the existent nothing non-existent exists, he thinks that of necessity one thing exists, viz. the existent and nothing else ... But being forced to follow the observed facts, and supposing the existence of that which is one in definition, but more than one according to our sensations, he now posits two causes and two principles calling them hot and cold, i.e. fire and earth; of these he ranges the hot with the existent, and the other with the non­ existent. (Trans. W. D. Ross) It should, I suggest, be apparent that this fits perfectly with what Aristotle says in the De caelo and with Simplicius’ approach. It may even in addition be a correct account of what Parmenides was saying, though now rephrased in Aristotle’s own language. But this is indeed another question.

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Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3, 1991
By: Sheppard, Anne D., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 165-173
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sheppard, Anne D.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
Aristotle’s treatment of phantasia in De anitna, 3 . 3 , is both suggestive and tantalizing: suggestive because Aristotle there seems to be trying to describe a capacity of the mind which cannot be identified either with sense-perception or with rational thought, a capacity which, if it is not the same as what we call ‘imagination’, at least has a good deal in common with it; but tantalizing because the chapter flits from one point to another and is hard to interpret as a consistent whole. There have been a number of recent attempts to make sense of the chapter and relate it to Aristotle’s other remarks about phantasia elsewhere.1 I shall briefly discuss three of these, which all make some use of modern discussions of imagination; in all three cases the way they see Aristotle’s position is affected by the account of imagination which they themselves favour. [p. 165]

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Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?, 1990
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 113-123
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[B]oth the content of Themistius’ works, and such evidence as we have of the commentators’ attitudes to him, show that he was predominantly a Peripatetic. In this he stood out against the tendencies of his time. His frequently expressed admiration for Plato does not invalidate this conclusion. Themistius may rightly claim to have been the last major figure in antiquity who was a genuine follower of Aristotle. For him, unlike his contemporaries, Plato does not surpass the master of those who know but he, and Socrates, ‘innanzi agli altri piu presso gli stanno’. [Conclusion, p. 123]

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Simplicius and others on Aristotle’s discussions of reason, 1988
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Duffy, John (Ed.), Peradotto, John J. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius and others on Aristotle’s discussions of reason
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1988
Published in Gonimos: Neoplatonic and Byzantine Studies presented to Leendert G. Westerink at 75
Pages 103-119
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Duffy, John , Peradotto, John J.
Translator(s)
What I want to do in this paper is to look at how Aristotle’s successors treated some points in his discussions of reason, and in particular the discussion in the De anima. bout their handling of relevant parts of the Nichomachaean Ethics we know very little, for unlike the De anima that treatise was not a major subject of study in the philosophical lectures and seminars of late antiquity. Though a commentary on some of it had been written by Aspasius, and notes by other, probably pre-Neoplatonic, hands survive,8 exposition of the Nicomachean Ethics seems to have been one of the gaps that the group of Aristotelians around Anna Comnena in twelfth-century Constantinople felt that they needed to fill. [pp. 104 f.]

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Neoplatonic Interpretations of Aristotle on "Phantasia", 1977
By: Blumenthal, Henry J.
Title Neoplatonic Interpretations of Aristotle on "Phantasia"
Type Article
Language English
Date 1977
Journal The Review of Metaphysics
Volume 31
Issue 2
Pages 242-257
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
The  ancient commentaries on Aristotle have for the most part 
remained in that strange kind of no-man's land between Classical 
and Medieval studies that even now holds so  many of the productions 
of  later  antiquity. On  the whole it would be  true  to  say  that  students 
of  Neoplatonism?for the commentators were usually Neoplatonists 
?prefer to occupy themselves with openly Neoplatonic writings. 
Modern Aristotelian scholars, on the other hand, tend to take very 
little account of the opinions of their ancient predecessors. In this 
way they differ from the Medie  vals, both Christian and Moslem: as 
is well known, Aquinas instigated the translation of many of these 
commentaries by his fellow Dominican, William of Moerbeke, while a 
century before, Averroes, the greatest of the Arabic commentators, 
had made ample use of at least the earlier Greek expositions. [Introduction, p. 242]

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Neoplatonism and early Christian thought: Essays in honour of A.H. Armstrong, 1981
By: Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Markus, R. A. (Ed.)
Title Neoplatonism and early Christian thought: Essays in honour of A.H. Armstrong
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1981
Publication Place London
Publisher Variorum
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Markus, R. A.
Translator(s) 
The studies collected in this book are all concerned with aspects of the Platonic tradition, either in its own internal development in the Hellenistic age and the period of the Roman Empire, or with the influence of Platonism, in one or other of its forms, on other spiritual traditions, especially that of Christianity. [offical abstract]

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Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy, 1991
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 191-205
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s) 
In 1911  H.  Kurfess  obtained  a  doctorate  from  the  University  of 
Tübingen with a dissertation on the history of the interpretation of nous 
poietikos and  nous pathetikos} Notoriously the expression  nous poietikos 
never occurs in the text of Aristotle, but its derivation from De mim. 
430*11-12 is an easy step, and when philosophers and commentators 
subsequently discuss it, we know what it is that they are talking about, 
even  if its  nature  and  status  remained,  and  remain,  controversial. 
Similarly nouspathetikos, or rather ho pathetikos nous, occurs only once in 
the  pages  of Aristotle,  but appears often, if less  frequently  than  nous 
poietikos,  in  the  texts  of his  successors  and  interpreters.  In  its  case, 
however,  though  the  expression  occurs  in  Aristotle’s  De anima,  its 
reference is unclear. To aggravate matters,  nous pathetikos quite often 
appears in his successors in contexts which seem to have nothing to do 
with the intellect. Yet while nous poietikos has generated an enormous 
literature  from  the  ancient  world  up  until  today,  the  phrase  nous 
pathetikos  has  received  nothing like the attention of its partner. This 
paper will examine some of its uses in both commentators and Neo- 
platonist  philosophers  in  the  hope of explaining its  appearance and 
clarifying its meaning. [Introduction, p. 191]

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition, 1991
By: Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1991
Publication Place Oxford
Publisher Clarendon Press
Series Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
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                                 Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3, 1991

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Sheppard, Anne D.,                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J.  (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Robinson, Howard (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                    English
                                                

                                                                                                    

                                                        Date
                                                        1991
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

                                                            Published in
                                                            Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

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                                                                165-173
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                    Author(s)
                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Sheppard, Anne D. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                

                                                

                                                    Editor(s)
                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J. 
                                                                                                                            , Robinson, Howard
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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Aristotle’s treatment  of  phantasia  in  De  anitna,  3 . 3 ,   is  both 
suggestive and tantalizing: suggestive because Aristotle there seems to 
be trying to describe a capacity of the mind which cannot be identified 
either  with  sense-perception  or  with  rational  thought,  a  capacity 
which, if it is not the same as what we call ‘imagination’, at least has a 
good deal in common with it; but tantalizing because the chapter flits 
from  one  point  to  another  and  is  hard  to  interpret  as  a  consistent 
whole. There have been a number of recent attempts to make sense of 
the  chapter and relate it to Aristotle’s other remarks about phantasia 
elsewhere.1  I shall briefly discuss three of these, which all make some 
use  of modern  discussions  of imagination; in  all  three cases the way 
they see Aristotle’s position is affected by the account of imagination 
which  they  themselves  favour. [p. 165]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Platonism in late antiquity, 1993

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Blumenthal, Henry J.,                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Platonism in late antiquity
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        1993
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

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                                                            Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

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                                                                1-27
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Blumenthal, Henry J. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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What I  hope  I  have  done  is  to  show  in  outline  what  late  antique Platonism  looks  like  now,  and  some  of  the  ways  in  which  its appearance  has  changed.  I  think  one  can  assert  with  some confidence th at if anyone  tries to do the same  thing in ten year's time, the picture will have changed again.  That is a measure both of the  number of unanswered  questions  and  of the rate  at which they are now being approached. [Conclusion, pp. 21 f.]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Plotinus in later Platonism, 1981

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Markus, R. A. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J.                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Plotinus in later Platonism
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        1981
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

                                                            Published in
                                                            Neoplatonism and early Christian thought: Essays in honour of A.H. Armstrong
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

                                                                Pages
                                                                212-222
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J.
                                                                                                                            , Markus, R. A.
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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To us,  Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism.  Many of his 
ideas were  not  new,  but  the  overall  structure  of his  thought,  its 
power, and its great measure of internal consistency differentiate his 
work unmistakeably from what  went  before—and  much  of what 
came after, dependent as much of it was on his achievement.  Did 
Plotinus’  Neoplatonic successors think of him in this way? [p. 212]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Review of Erwin Sonderegger: Simplikios: Über die Zeit, 1983

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Blumenthal, Henry J.                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

                                                    Title
                                                    Review of Erwin Sonderegger: Simplikios: Über die Zeit
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        Date
                                                        1983
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                            Journal
                                                            The Classical Review, New Series
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

                                                            Volume
                                                            33
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

                                                            Issue
                                                            2
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

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                                                            337-338
                                                        

                                                    
                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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Review of Erwin Sonderegger: Simplikios. Über die Zeit. Ein Kommentar zum Corollarium de tempore. (Hypomnemata, 70.) Pp. 197. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1982

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Simplicius and others on Aristotle’s discussions of reason, 1988

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Blumenthal, Henry J.,                                                                                                                                                                                 Duffy,  John (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Peradotto, John J. (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Simplicius and others on Aristotle’s discussions of reason
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        1988
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

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                                                            Gonimos: Neoplatonic and Byzantine Studies presented to Leendert G. Westerink at 75
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

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                                                                103-119
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Duffy,  John
                                                                                                                            , Peradotto, John J.
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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What  I  want to  do  in  this paper is to look at how Aristotle’s 
successors  treated  some  points  in  his  discussions  of reason,  and  in 
particular  the  discussion  in  the  De anima. bout  their  handling  of 
relevant  parts  of the  Nichomachaean Ethics we  know very little, for 
unlike the De anima that treatise was not a major subject of study in 
the  philosophical  lectures  and  seminars  of late  antiquity.  Though a 
commentary on some of it had been written by Aspasius, and notes by 
other,  probably  pre-Neoplatonic,  hands  survive,8  exposition  of the 
Nicomachean Ethics seems to have been one of the gaps that the group 
of Aristotelians around Anna Comnena in twelfth-century Constantinople felt that they needed to fill. [pp. 104 f.]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima, 1993

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                                                                                                                                    Blumenthal, Henry J.,                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Simplicius(?) on the first book of Aristotle’s De Anima
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        1993
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

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                                                            Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

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                                                                91-112
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Blumenthal, Henry J. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Blumenthal, Henry J.
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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Neoplatonic  exposition  of  classical  Greek  philosophy  includes 
two  kinds of reinterpretation. The  first  and  most basic  is,  of course, 
the reading of Plato himself as a Neoplatonist. This is, it goes without 
saying, to be found primarily in all the independent works of Neopla­
tonism,  as  well  as  in  commentaries  on  works  of  Plato.  The  other, 
with which  readers of the Aristotelian commentators  are  more often 
concerned,  is  the  Platonization  of Aristotle.  The  latter  is  crucial  to 
our understanding of any Neoplatonist commentator, both in himself 
and also as an authority on Aristotle. And since we are dealing with a 
text at least superficially based on Aristotle, I shall devote most of this 
paper  to  some  of the  somewhat  strange  interpretations  of  him  to  be 
found in Book  1  of the De anima commentary. At the same time this 
particular book also offers an opportunity, which the commentary on 
what will  have seemed to  him the  more obviously philosophically in­
teresting  parts  of  the  De  anima  does  not1,  to  see  how  Simplicius 
works  in  the  area  of  Plato  interpretation,  and  we  shall  look  at  the 
way  in  which  Plato  and  Aristotle  are  both  subjected  to  similar tech­
niques of interpretation. [p. 91]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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