| Title | Aristotle's Categories in the Greek and Latin medieval exegetical tradition. The case of the argument for the non-simultaneity of relatives |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1996 |
| Journal | Cima (Cahiers de l'institut du Moyen Âge grec et latin, Université de Copenhague) |
| Volume | 66 |
| Pages | 117-134 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Demetracopoulos, John A. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| To conclude: even if we are eager to say that in the case of Anselm’s use of the Aristotelian passage 7b38-39 we notice a medieval misconcep tion of the text of the great ancient philosopher, first we should not hasten to infer from this that the medievals couldn’t understand Aristotle or generally ancient writers; and second, we should not be at all surprised. Commentators and users of Aristotle’s works have often been exceptional men, but not super-human. Complaining about the texts’ lan guage and so implicitly apologizing for the value of his interpretive work, one commentator notes that the interpretation of many Aristotelian texts presupposes something like oracular powers of divination (Sophonias, CAG XXIII,2, 2, 8-13). Such modesty on the part of one of the Greek commentators of Aristotle ought to shake any confidence we might have in definitive interpretations of certain difficult or ambiguous Aristotelian passages, which, as often as we insist on examining them intensely, con stantly answer our exegetical anxiety with a spiteful silence. [conclusion, p. 133] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/p6iQ64RPOX9NvXe |
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| Title | Aristotle's Categories in the Greek and Latin medieval exegetical tradition. The case of the argument for the non-simultaneity of relatives |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1996 |
| Journal | Cima (Cahiers de l'institut du Moyen Âge grec et latin, Université de Copenhague) |
| Volume | 66 |
| Pages | 117-134 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Demetracopoulos, John A. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
To conclude: even if we are eager to say that in the case of Anselm’s use of the Aristotelian passage 7b38-39 we notice a medieval misconcep tion of the text of the great ancient philosopher, first we should not hasten to infer from this that the medievals couldn’t understand Aristotle or generally ancient writers; and second, we should not be at all surprised. Commentators and users of Aristotle’s works have often been exceptional men, but not super-human. Complaining about the texts’ lan guage and so implicitly apologizing for the value of his interpretive work, one commentator notes that the interpretation of many Aristotelian texts presupposes something like oracular powers of divination (Sophonias, CAG XXIII,2, 2, 8-13). Such modesty on the part of one of the Greek commentators of Aristotle ought to shake any confidence we might have in definitive interpretations of certain difficult or ambiguous Aristotelian passages, which, as often as we insist on examining them intensely, con stantly answer our exegetical anxiety with a spiteful silence. [conclusion, p. 133] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/p6iQ64RPOX9NvXe |
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