Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5, 2017
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Balansard, Anne (Ed.), Jaulin, Annick (Ed.)
Title Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2017
Published in Alexandre d'Aphrodise et la métaphysique aristotéliecienne
Pages 157-179
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s) Balansard, Anne , Jaulin, Annick
Translator(s)
This contribution by Riccardo Chiaradonna aims to reconstruct the reading of Aristotle's Categories 5 by Alexander of Aphrodisias within the context of his exegesis of the treatise. Chiaradonna argues that Alexander was responding to an older particularist or extensionalist reading of the Categories, likely developed by Boethus of Sidon, and that Alexander's interpretation retains certain aspects of Boethus' exegesis while also integrating the ontology of the Categories with that of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Chiaradonna focuses on a well-known section of Simplicius' commentary on the Categories, in which Simplicius opposes three partial interpretations of the subject (ousia) of the Categories and defends a tripartite doctrine of the subject that he attributes to Boethus and Alexander. Chiaradonna concludes that Alexander's reading of the Categories is essentialist or intensionalist, and that it aims to integrate the semantics of the treatise with his ontology of immanent natures. He argues that Alexander viewed individuals as first substances by nature rather than only for us, and that his semantic reading of the Categories is closely tied to his essentialist ontology. [introduction/conclusion]

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Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus, 2016
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo, Rashed, Marwan, Sedley, David N., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 231-262
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Rashed, Marwan , Sedley, David N.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Riccardo Chiaradonna has studied Boethus’ downgrading also of universals, again by reference to the Categories ’ defi nition of substance. On this ground, universals are not even a something (a Stoic category, lower than substance). Simplicius tells us: ‘Boethus says fi rst that the universal does not even exist in reality ( einai en hupostasei ), according to Aristotle, and even if it did have any reality, it would not be a something . Aristotle rather said it was in something’. Chiaradonna concludes from a discussion of a number of passages that Boethus thought of a universal as nothing but a collection of particulars. Th e recently recovered fragments of Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Categories in Chapter 8 below, speaking of animal, similarly say ‘none of these generic items is a subject’. The text of Porphyry translated and analysed in this chapter includes among others a further new fragment on Boethus’ treatment of division by differentia at 14,4–15. Rashed has drawn attention to yet another way in which Boethus downgrades something of Aristotle’s: the priority of Aristotle’s fi rst fi gure of syllogism. Or at least he puts Aristotle’s figures all on the same level. The figures are Aristotle’s patterns of valid argument concerning all, some, or none of a class of things, and Aristotle thought that certain arguments in the second and third figures had to be proved equivalent to certain arguments in the fi rst, before they could be seen as valid. I shall discuss below the resumption of the debate in the fourth century by the commentator Themistius. Rashed has translated Th emistius’ text from the superior of two Arabic manuscripts into French. It is to be hoped that Chiaradonna and Rashed, two of the translators of the fragment in Chapter 8, will carry out their plan of compiling the fi rst collection of fragments of Boethus, of which Michael Griffin has already noticed around fifty. [introduction]

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Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme, 2009
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Bonazzi, Mauro (Ed.), Opsomer, Jan (Ed.)
Title Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2009
Published in The Origins of the Platonic System: Platonisms of the early empire and their philosophical contexts
Pages 89-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s) Bonazzi, Mauro , Opsomer, Jan
Translator(s)
The renaissance of dogmatic Platonism and the revival of Aristotelian school treatises are characteristic features of philosophy in the 1st century BCE. Eudorus of Alexandria played an important role in both these processes, being central to constructing Pythagorean Platonism and its interaction with Aristotelianism. Eudorus had a deep knowledge of Aristotelian school treatises, including authoring a work on Aristotle's Categories. The study focuses on this part of his work, as the Categories were at the center of the Aristotelian renaissance in the first century. Eudorus' program of constructing a Platonic-Pythagorean system capable of replacing Hellenistic philosophies is visible in his work, as well as in other Pythagorean apocrypha. The author discusses the dominant position of Categories in the early history of post-Hellenistic Aristotelianism and the influence of Eudorus on the interpretation of Categories in the first century. [introduction]

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Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme, 2009
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Bonazzi, Mauro (Ed.), Opsomer, Jan (Ed.)
Title Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2009
Published in The Origins of the Platonic System: Platonisms of the early empire and their philosophical contexts
Pages 89-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s) Bonazzi, Mauro , Opsomer, Jan
Translator(s)
The renaissance of dogmatic Platonism and the revival of Aristotelian school treatises are characteristic features of philosophy in the 1st century BCE. Eudorus of Alexandria played an important role in both these processes, being central to constructing Pythagorean Platonism and its interaction with Aristotelianism. Eudorus had a deep knowledge of Aristotelian school treatises, including authoring a work on Aristotle's Categories. The study focuses on this part of his work, as the Categories were at the center of the Aristotelian renaissance in the first century. Eudorus' program of constructing a Platonic-Pythagorean system capable of replacing Hellenistic philosophies is visible in his work, as well as in other Pythagorean apocrypha. The author discusses the dominant position of Categories in the early history of post-Hellenistic Aristotelianism and the influence of Eudorus on the interpretation of Categories in the first century. [introduction]

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Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5, 2017
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Balansard, Anne (Ed.), Jaulin, Annick (Ed.)
Title Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2017
Published in Alexandre d'Aphrodise et la métaphysique aristotéliecienne
Pages 157-179
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s) Balansard, Anne , Jaulin, Annick
Translator(s)
This contribution by Riccardo Chiaradonna aims to reconstruct the reading of Aristotle's Categories 5 by Alexander of Aphrodisias within the context of his exegesis of the treatise. Chiaradonna argues that Alexander was responding to an older particularist or extensionalist reading of the Categories, likely developed by Boethus of Sidon, and that Alexander's interpretation retains certain aspects of Boethus' exegesis while also integrating the ontology of the Categories with that of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Chiaradonna focuses on a well-known section of Simplicius' commentary on the Categories, in which Simplicius opposes three partial interpretations of the subject (ousia) of the Categories and defends a tripartite doctrine of the subject that he attributes to Boethus and Alexander. Chiaradonna concludes that Alexander's reading of the Categories is essentialist or intensionalist, and that it aims to integrate the semantics of the treatise with his ontology of immanent natures. He argues that Alexander viewed individuals as first substances by nature rather than only for us, and that his semantic reading of the Categories is closely tied to his essentialist ontology. [introduction/conclusion]

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Les neuf etudes ont pour auteurs: Cristina Cerami, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Michel Crubellier, Silvia Fazzo, Pantelis Golitsis, Gweltaz Guyomarc'h, Annick Jaulin, Claire Louguet, Marwan Rashed.","republication_of":null,"online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/6qWkzhvSbAtdjg7","translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"is_catalog":0,"in_bibliography":0,"is_inactive":0,"notes":null,"doi_url":null,"book":{"id":273,"pubplace":"Leuven \u2013 Paris \u2013 Bristol, CT","publisher":"Peeters","series":"","volume":"","edition_no":"","valid_from":null,"valid_until":null}}},"article":null},"sort":["Cat\u00e9gories et m\u00e9taphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'ex\u00e9g\u00e8se de Cat\u00e9gories 5"]}

Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus, 2016
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo, Rashed, Marwan, Sedley, David N., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 231-262
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Rashed, Marwan , Sedley, David N.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Riccardo Chiaradonna has studied Boethus’ downgrading also of universals, again by reference to the Categories ’ defi nition of substance. On this ground, universals are not even a something (a Stoic category, lower than substance). Simplicius tells us: ‘Boethus says fi rst that the universal does not even exist in reality ( einai en hupostasei ), according to Aristotle, and even if it did have any reality, it would not be a something . Aristotle rather said it was in something’. Chiaradonna concludes from a discussion of a number of passages that Boethus thought of a universal as nothing but a collection of particulars. Th e recently recovered fragments of Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Categories in Chapter 8 below, speaking of animal, similarly say ‘none of these generic items is a subject’. The text of Porphyry translated and analysed in this chapter includes among others a further new fragment on Boethus’ treatment of division by differentia at 14,4–15. Rashed has drawn attention to yet another way in which Boethus downgrades something of Aristotle’s: the priority of Aristotle’s fi rst fi gure of syllogism. Or at least he puts Aristotle’s figures all on the same level. The figures are Aristotle’s patterns of valid argument concerning all, some, or none of a class of things, and Aristotle thought that certain arguments in the second and third figures had to be proved equivalent to certain arguments in the fi rst, before they could be seen as valid. I shall discuss below the resumption of the debate in the fourth century by the commentator Themistius. Rashed has translated Th emistius’ text from the superior of two Arabic manuscripts into French. It is to be hoped that Chiaradonna and Rashed, two of the translators of the fragment in Chapter 8, will carry out their plan of compiling the fi rst collection of fragments of Boethus, of which Michael Griffin has already noticed around fifty.  [introduction]

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