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What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity, 2020
By: Longo, Angela, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Manolea, Christina-Panagiota (Ed.)
Title What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2020
Published in Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus
Pages 115-141
Categories no categories
Author(s) Longo, Angela
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Manolea, Christina-Panagiota
Translator(s)
So far, our inquiry has established that in late Antiquity the texts of Plato’s Phaedrus (245c–e) and Aristotle’s Physics (VIII 5) were thought to be referring to each other, and to show both a basic agreement and significant divergences. Plato’s contention that the self-mover is a principle of movement and is to be identified with the soul is contrasted with Aristotle’s belief that, despite the self-mover’s primacy among moving beings, the ultimate principle of movement is an unmoved mover, which only in the case of animals can be identified with the soul. What seems to prompt Hermias to compare Plato (whom he is commenting on) with Aristotle (whom he repeatedly mentions) is his aim to reconcile the two great authorities of Late Antique Neoplatonist thinkers. As we have seen, Hermias frequently, if implicitly, refers to Aristotle’s Physics, particularly chapter 5 of book VIII, but also other sections of it (e.g., book II for the distinction between natural and artificial beings, book IV for the belief that actual infinity does not exist; to this list we may add the explicit quotation of Phys. II 2194b.13 in the section of the scholia we discussed above). Besides, Hermias clearly, if implicitly, refers to Aristotle’s De anima for the view that no bodily motions occur in the soul (De an. I 3, 405b.31ss.) and that there exist a passive and an active intellect (De an. III 5). Our inquiry enables us to conclude that, historically speaking, it was the exegesis of Phaedrus 245c–e that originated the lexical and conceptual triad of “that which is moved by something else,” “that which moves by itself,” and “that which moves while remaining unmoved.” This triad, which played a key role in the philosophical schools of Athens and Alexandria in the 5th and 6th centuries AD, is rooted in the exegesis of Plato’s Phaedrus, yet it includes Aristotelian doctrines as well, most notably from the Physics. From the point of view of the exegetical strategy, although both Hermias and Simplicius aimed to harmonize the doctrines of the two highest authorities in Greek philosophy, Plato and Aristotle, probably in an attempt to defend them from the unstoppable rise of Christianity, they display different levels of sympathy and theoretical effort. Showing his clear preference for Plato’s doctrine, Hermias seems to employ quite rudimentary philosophical tools. Simplicius, due to his greater sympathy for Aristotle, focuses on the definitions of the terms at issue. Finally, Simplicius can be said to make Hermias’ points more explicit and detailed. Hermias seems to take for granted the comparison between the Phaedrus and the Physics, and leaves it implicit, while Simplicius makes it explicit. Moreover, as compared to Hermias’ scholia on the Phaedrus, Simplicius’ extensive commentary on the Physics includes many more and much longer quotations from the works of Plato and Aristotle. [conclusion p. 140-141]

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Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus, 2019
By: Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Manolea, Christina-Panagiota (Ed.), Sarah Klitenic Wear (Ed.)
Title Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2019
Publication Place Amsterdam
Publisher Brill
Series Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
Volume 24
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Manolea, Christina-Panagiota , Sarah Klitenic Wear
Translator(s)
Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus is a collection of twelve essays that consider aspects of Hermias’ philosophy, including his notions of the soul, logic, and method of exegesis. The essays also consider Hermias’ work in the tradition of Neoplatonism, particularly in relation to the thought of Iamblichus and Proclus. The collection grapples with the question of the originality of Hermias’ commentary—the only extant work of Hermias—which is a series of lectures notes of his teacher, Syrianus. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29 , 2019
By: Sanchez, Liliana Carolina, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Nejeschleba, Tomáš (Ed.)
Title Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2019
Published in Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Pages 141-158
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sanchez, Liliana Carolina
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Nejeschleba, Tomáš
Translator(s)
The task of the Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle’s works, mostly in what has to do with dialectical passages, is usually “taken for granted instead of explained” (Baltussen 2008, 22). I’m borrowing these words employed by Han Baltussen in a different context to talk about the appreciation that the commentaries on the first book of the De Anima, in general, but ‘Simplicius’ in particular, have received from contemporary scholarship. The reason I feel entitled to make such an amplification of the scope of Baltussen’s judgment has to do, in fact, with the traditional way in which the commentator’s exegetical effort is seen. Their role is often considered in light of their doctrinal commitment to Neoplatonic doctrine and, notably, with their “harmonization” project of Plato’s and Aristotle’s thought. Because of that, these readings are held to distort Aristotle’s philosophical aims more than explain them. In the following lines, I aim to study one of those cases in which the exegetical labor of a Neoplatonic commentator is seen as carrying a doctrinal element that entails a certain distortion of Aristotle’s thought. The case that I propose to analyze is ‘Simplicius’’ commentary on the soul-harmony theory, for the commentator runs his interpretation with the aid of certain Neoplatonic theories that are alien to Aristotle’s thought. My aim is to track how the hermeneutical device that the commentator applies to the Aristotelian text is built up from the elements provided in the text itself, how the foreign doctrine is introduced, and how this elicits a global comprehension and a philosophical appropriation of the text. In order to do so, I will first present the passage and the alien theory that is being employed by ‘Simplicius’ to perform his exegesis; then, I will show how the commentator chains two passages of the text and produces an explanation for the refutation of the soul-harmony theory. Finally, I will describe what kind of interpretation is produced and how it serves to explain Aristotle’s challenge in using the hylomorphic model applied to psychology. By doing this, I hope that I can explain how the commentator feels authorized to introduce the alien theory, how he builds up his exegesis around a problem that he needs to solve, and consequently, what the philosophical product of such an interpretation is. [introduction p. 141-142]

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Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 2019
By: Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Nejeschleba, Tomáš (Ed.)
Title Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2019
Publication Place London
Publisher Prometheus Trust
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Nejeschleba, Tomáš
Translator(s)
This anthology of 23 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2017 annual conference. Contents: Why the Intelligibles are not Outside the Intellect Lloyd Gerson The Causality of the First Principle and the theory of Two Activities in Plotinus Enn. V.4 [7] 13 Andrei Timotin “Our concern, though, is not to be out of sin, but to be god:” Assimilation to god according to Plotinus  Thomas Vidart Eros as Soul’s ‘Eye’ in Plotinus: What does it see and not see?  Lela Alexidze Eternity and Time in Porphyry, Sentence 44 Lenka Karfíková Gender construction and social connections in Porphyry’s Ad Marcellam  Mathilde Cambron-Goulet What kind of souls did Proclus discover?  Svetlana Messiats Is self-knowledge one or multiple? Consciousness in ‘Simplicius’, Commentary on On the Soul Chiara Militello Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29 Carolina Sánchez Neoplatonic Asclepius  Eugene Afonasin Porphyry and the Motif of Christianity as παράνομος Ilaria Ramelli The Reception of Xenophanes’ Philosophical Theology in Plato and the Christian Platonists Monika Recinová Cyril of Alexandria’s Theory of the Incarnate Union Re-examined Sergey Trostyanskiy The Erotic Magus: Ficino’s De amore as a Guide to Plato’s Symposium  Angela Hobbs Francesco Patrizi and the Oracles of Zoroaster: The Use of Chaldean Oracles in Nova de universis philosophia Vojtěch Hladky Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼs use of Ficinian metaphysics of light Martin Žemla Johannes Kepler and His Neoplatonic Sources  Jiří Michalík Georgius Raguseius against Astrology Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman The Platonic Framework of Valeriano Magni’s Philosophy Tomáš Nejeschleba Comenius’ Pansophia in the Context of Renaissance Neo-Platonism Jan Čížek The Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of God Jacques Joseph Lewis Campbell’s Studies on Plato and their Philosophical Significance Thomas Mróz Psychological Effects of Henôsis  Bruce J. MacLennan [official abstract]

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Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics, 2018
By: Parsons, Bethany, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Layne, Danielle, A. (Ed.)
Title Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2018
Published in Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Pages 227-242
Categories no categories
Author(s) Parsons, Bethany
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Layne, Danielle, A.
Translator(s)

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Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 2018
By: Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Layne, Danielle, A. (Ed.)
Title Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2018
Publication Place Gloucestershire
Publisher Prometheus Trust
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Layne, Danielle, A.
Translator(s)
This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference. Contents: The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno – Michael Romero Plato’s Timaean Psychology – John Finamore The Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 – Joshua Langseth First Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus – Robert M. Berchman Plotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin – Giannis Stamatellos In What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus – Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRado A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry – Seamus O’Neill Alienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision – Gregory Shaw Iamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice – Sam Webster The Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa – Tomasz Stępień Tension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius – Marilynn Lawrence Peritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology – Tyler Tritten Mysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism – Ilaria Ramelli Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics – Bethany Parsons From Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human – Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout From the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Jay Bregman [official abstract]

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Iamblichus on Soul, 2014
By: Finamore, John F., Remes, Pauliina (Ed.), Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (Ed.)
Title Iamblichus on Soul
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
Pages 280-292
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F.
Editor(s) Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
Translator(s)
Central to lamblichus’ philosophy is his doctrine o f the soul. The hum an soul strad­ dles two worlds (the realms o f the Intelligible and o f Nature) and can operate in both. H um an souls descend to live a life on earth, but their real hom e is in the Intelligible W orld o f the Forms. Through the help o f the interm ediary divinities, hum an souls re­ ascend to the Intelligible and regain their proper abode. The hum an soul is the central character in this dram a, and its purification through philosophy and ritual is central to its eventual ascent.As in other areas, lamblichus’ philosophy o f the soul had a large im pact on later Neoplatonists. We are lucky enough to have large sections o f his de Anima, preserved by John Stobaeus. His de Mysteriis and fragments from his Platonic com m entaries also shed light on Iamblichean psychology, but the m ost im portant fragments are preserved by the author o f the com m entary to A ristotle’s de Anima, who may or may not be Simplicius,2 and by Priscianus o f Lydia. We will consider all o f these sources as we examine lamblichus’ unique doctrine of the soul. [p. 280]

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Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary, 2002
By: Finamore, John F., Dillon, John, Iamblichus
Title Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place Leiden
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua
Volume 92
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F. , Dillon, John , Iamblichus
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities. This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included as well are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise. [authors abstract]

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Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary, 2002
By: Finamore, John F., Dillon, John, Iamblichus
Title Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place Leiden
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua
Volume 92
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F. , Dillon, John , Iamblichus
Editor(s)
Translator(s) 
Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities.
This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included as well are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise. [authors abstract]

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Iamblichus on Soul, 2014
By: Finamore, John F., Remes, Pauliina (Ed.), Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (Ed.)
Title Iamblichus on Soul
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
Pages 280-292
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F.
Editor(s) Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
Translator(s) 
Central to lamblichus’ philosophy is his doctrine o f the soul. The hum an soul strad­
dles two worlds (the realms o f the Intelligible and o f Nature)  and can  operate in both. 
H um an  souls descend  to  live  a  life on  earth, but their real hom e is  in  the Intelligible 
W orld o f the Forms. Through the help o f the interm ediary divinities,  hum an souls re­
ascend to the Intelligible and regain their proper abode. The hum an soul is the central 
character in this dram a, and its purification through philosophy and ritual is central to 
its eventual ascent.As  in  other  areas,  lamblichus’  philosophy  o f the  soul  had  a  large  im pact  on  later 
Neoplatonists. We are lucky enough to have large sections o f his de Anima, preserved by 
John Stobaeus. His de Mysteriis and fragments from his Platonic com m entaries also shed 
light on Iamblichean psychology, but the m ost im portant fragments are preserved by the 
author o f the com m entary to A ristotle’s de Anima, who may or may not be Simplicius,2 
and by Priscianus o f Lydia. We will consider all o f these sources as we examine lamblichus’ 
unique doctrine of the soul. [p. 280]

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Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics, 2018
By: Parsons, Bethany, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Layne, Danielle, A. (Ed.)
Title Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2018
Published in Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Pages 227-242
Categories no categories
Author(s) Parsons, Bethany
Editor(s) Finamore, John F. , Layne, Danielle, A.
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                                 Platonic Pathways: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 2018

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This anthology of 16 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2016 annual conference. Contents:

The Significance of Initiation Rituals in Plato’s Meno – Michael Romero

Plato’s Timaean Psychology – John Finamore

The Creative Thinker: A New Reading of Numenius fr. 16.10-12 – Joshua Langseth

First Philosophy, Abstract Objects, and Divine Aseity: Aristotle and Plotinus – Robert M. Berchman

Plotinus on philia and its Empedoclean origin – Giannis Stamatellos

In What Sense Does the One Exist? Existence and Hypostasis in Plotinus – Michael Wiitala and Paul DiRado

A Double-Edged Sword: Porphyry on the Perils and Profits of Demonological Inquiry – Seamus O’Neill

Alienation and Divinization: Iamblichus’ Theurgic Vision – Gregory Shaw

Iamblichus’ method for creating Theurgic Sacrifice – Sam Webster

The Understanding of Time and Eternity in the polemic between Eunomius, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa – Tomasz Stępień

Tension in the soul: A Stoic/Platonic concept in Plutarch, Proclus, and Simplicius – Marilynn Lawrence

Peritrope in Damascius as the Apparatus of Speculative Ontology – Tyler Tritten

Mysticism, Apocalypticism, and Platonism – Ilaria Ramelli

Philosophy and Commentary: Evaluating Simplicius on the Presocratics – Bethany Parsons

From Embryo to Saint: a Thomist Account of Being Human – Melissa Rovig Vanden Bout

From the Neoplatonizing Christian Gnosticism of Philip K. Dick to the Neoplatonizing Hermetic Gnosticism of Ralph Waldo Emerson – Jay Bregman
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                                 Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 2019

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Finamore, John F. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Nejeschleba, Tomáš (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                            Prometheus Trust
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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This anthology of 23 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the ISNS: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2017 annual conference. Contents:

Why the Intelligibles are not Outside the Intellect Lloyd Gerson

The Causality of the First Principle and the theory of Two Activities in Plotinus Enn. V.4 [7] 13 Andrei Timotin

“Our concern, though, is not to be out of sin, but to be god:” Assimilation to god according to Plotinus  Thomas Vidart

Eros as Soul’s ‘Eye’ in Plotinus: What does it see and not see?  Lela Alexidze

Eternity and Time in Porphyry, Sentence 44 Lenka Karfíková

Gender construction and social connections in Porphyry’s Ad Marcellam  Mathilde Cambron-Goulet

What kind of souls did Proclus discover?  Svetlana Messiats

Is self-knowledge one or multiple? Consciousness in ‘Simplicius’, Commentary on On the Soul Chiara Militello

Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29 Carolina Sánchez

Neoplatonic Asclepius  Eugene Afonasin

Porphyry and the Motif of Christianity as παράνομος Ilaria Ramelli

The Reception of Xenophanes’ Philosophical Theology in Plato and the Christian Platonists Monika Recinová

Cyril of Alexandria’s Theory of the Incarnate Union Re-examined Sergey Trostyanskiy

The Erotic Magus: Ficino’s De amore as a Guide to Plato’s Symposium  Angela Hobbs

Francesco Patrizi and the Oracles of Zoroaster: The Use of Chaldean Oracles in Nova de universis philosophia Vojtěch Hladky

Ficino in the light of alchemy. Heinrich Khunrathʼs use of Ficinian metaphysics of light Martin Žemla

Johannes Kepler and His Neoplatonic Sources  Jiří Michalík

Georgius Raguseius against Astrology Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman

The Platonic Framework of Valeriano Magni’s Philosophy Tomáš Nejeschleba

Comenius’ Pansophia in the Context of Renaissance Neo-Platonism Jan Čížek

The Spirit of Nature and the Spirit of God Jacques Joseph

Lewis Campbell’s Studies on Plato and their Philosophical Significance Thomas Mróz

Psychological Effects of Henôsis  Bruce J. MacLennan
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                                 Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29  , 2019

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                     Sanchez, Liliana Carolina,                                                                                                                                                                                 Finamore, John F. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Nejeschleba, Tomáš (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29  
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                            Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
                                                        

                                                                                                                    

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                                                                141-158
                                                            

                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                
                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Sanchez, Liliana Carolina 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                

                                                

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The task of the Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle’s works, mostly in what has to do with dialectical passages, is usually “taken for granted instead of explained” (Baltussen 2008, 22). I’m borrowing these words employed by Han Baltussen in a different context to talk about the appreciation that the commentaries on the first book of the De Anima, in general, but ‘Simplicius’ in particular, have received from contemporary scholarship.

The reason I feel entitled to make such an amplification of the scope of Baltussen’s judgment has to do, in fact, with the traditional way in which the commentator’s exegetical effort is seen. Their role is often considered in light of their doctrinal commitment to Neoplatonic doctrine and, notably, with their “harmonization” project of Plato’s and Aristotle’s thought. Because of that, these readings are held to distort Aristotle’s philosophical aims more than explain them.

In the following lines, I aim to study one of those cases in which the exegetical labor of a Neoplatonic commentator is seen as carrying a doctrinal element that entails a certain distortion of Aristotle’s thought. The case that I propose to analyze is ‘Simplicius’’ commentary on the soul-harmony theory, for the commentator runs his interpretation with the aid of certain Neoplatonic theories that are alien to Aristotle’s thought.

My aim is to track how the hermeneutical device that the commentator applies to the Aristotelian text is built up from the elements provided in the text itself, how the foreign doctrine is introduced, and how this elicits a global comprehension and a philosophical appropriation of the text.

In order to do so, I will first present the passage and the alien theory that is being employed by ‘Simplicius’ to perform his exegesis; then, I will show how the commentator chains two passages of the text and produces an explanation for the refutation of the soul-harmony theory. Finally, I will describe what kind of interpretation is produced and how it serves to explain Aristotle’s challenge in using the hylomorphic model applied to psychology.

By doing this, I hope that I can explain how the commentator feels authorized to introduce the alien theory, how he builds up his exegesis around a problem that he needs to solve, and consequently, what the philosophical product of such an interpretation is.
[introduction p. 141-142]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus, 2019

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Finamore, John F. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Manolea, Christina-Panagiota (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Sarah Klitenic Wear (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                        2019
                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                                                                                                                            

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                                                            Amsterdam
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

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                                                            Brill
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

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                                                            Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                

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                                                            24
                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Finamore, John F.
                                                                                                                            , Manolea, Christina-Panagiota
                                                                                                                            , Sarah Klitenic Wear
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                

                                                

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Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus is a collection of twelve essays that consider aspects of Hermias’ philosophy, including his notions of the soul, logic, and method of exegesis. The essays also consider Hermias’ work in the tradition of Neoplatonism, particularly in relation to the thought of Iamblichus and Proclus. The collection grapples with the question of the originality of Hermias’ commentary—the only extant work of Hermias—which is a series of lectures notes of his teacher, Syrianus. [author's abstract]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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                                 What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity, 2020

                                                                        By:
                                                                                                                                    Longo, Angela,                                                                                                                                                                                 Finamore, John F. (Ed.),                                                                                                                                                                                 Manolea, Christina-Panagiota (Ed.)                                                                                                                        

                            

                        

                            

                                

                                

                                    

                                        

                                            

                                                
                                                

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                                                    What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity
                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                
                                                

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Longo, Angela 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                

                                                

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So far, our inquiry has established that in late Antiquity the texts of Plato’s Phaedrus (245c–e) and Aristotle’s Physics (VIII 5) were thought to be referring to each other, and to show both a basic agreement and significant divergences.

Plato’s contention that the self-mover is a principle of movement and is to be identified with the soul is contrasted with Aristotle’s belief that, despite the self-mover’s primacy among moving beings, the ultimate principle of movement is an unmoved mover, which only in the case of animals can be identified with the soul.

What seems to prompt Hermias to compare Plato (whom he is commenting on) with Aristotle (whom he repeatedly mentions) is his aim to reconcile the two great authorities of Late Antique Neoplatonist thinkers. As we have seen, Hermias frequently, if implicitly, refers to Aristotle’s Physics, particularly chapter 5 of book VIII, but also other sections of it (e.g., book II for the distinction between natural and artificial beings, book IV for the belief that actual infinity does not exist; to this list we may add the explicit quotation of Phys. II 2194b.13 in the section of the scholia we discussed above). Besides, Hermias clearly, if implicitly, refers to Aristotle’s De anima for the view that no bodily motions occur in the soul (De an. I 3, 405b.31ss.) and that there exist a passive and an active intellect (De an. III 5).

Our inquiry enables us to conclude that, historically speaking, it was the exegesis of Phaedrus 245c–e that originated the lexical and conceptual triad of “that which is moved by something else,” “that which moves by itself,” and “that which moves while remaining unmoved.” This triad, which played a key role in the philosophical schools of Athens and Alexandria in the 5th and 6th centuries AD, is rooted in the exegesis of Plato’s Phaedrus, yet it includes Aristotelian doctrines as well, most notably from the Physics.

From the point of view of the exegetical strategy, although both Hermias and Simplicius aimed to harmonize the doctrines of the two highest authorities in Greek philosophy, Plato and Aristotle, probably in an attempt to defend them from the unstoppable rise of Christianity, they display different levels of sympathy and theoretical effort. Showing his clear preference for Plato’s doctrine, Hermias seems to employ quite rudimentary philosophical tools. Simplicius, due to his greater sympathy for Aristotle, focuses on the definitions of the terms at issue.

Finally, Simplicius can be said to make Hermias’ points more explicit and detailed. Hermias seems to take for granted the comparison between the Phaedrus and the Physics, and leaves it implicit, while Simplicius makes it explicit. Moreover, as compared to Hermias’ scholia on the Phaedrus, Simplicius’ extensive commentary on the Physics includes many more and much longer quotations from the works of Plato and Aristotle.
[conclusion p. 140-141]

                                                

                                                
                                            

                                        

                                    

                                    
                                    

                                        
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