Title | Le σκοπός du traité aristotélicien Du Ciel selon Simplicius. Exégèse, dialectique, théologie |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 2015 |
Journal | Studia graeco-arabica |
Volume | 5 |
Pages | 27-51 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
A six-page Prologue introduces the commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo written by Simplicius after 529 AD. As usual in the exegeses typical of the Neoplatonic schools of late Antiquity, this Prologue addresses a series of preliminary questions that are meant to steer the interpretation in its entirety, as well as to frame the text to be commented upon within the reading canon of the Aristotelian works, which were intended to provide the propaedeutics to the reading canon of Plato’s dialogues. Simplicius addresses the question of the scope of De Caelo, discussing the interpretations advanced by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Iamblichus, and Syrianus. According to Alexander, this treatise deals with the universe as a whole, as well as with the five simple bodies contained in it. It was with Iamblichus, who advocated the idea that for each Platonic dialogue there was only one skopos, that the unity of a philosophical work was raised to the rank of a general rule. According to Iamblichus, the skopos of the De Caelo is the divine body of heaven. As a consequence, the primary elements that depend upon the heavens are included in the treatise. Syrianus deepens the theological tendency implied in Iamblichus’ interpretation: for him, the skopos of the De Caelo is primarily the divine body of heaven, and only secondarily the set of sublunar elements. Simplicius treasures the commentary by Alexander; nevertheless, he questions the skopos assigned by him: Alexander underestimated the importance of the unity of the treatise, even though his intention to account for each and every question raised by Aristotle was laudable. Contrarily, Syrianus was right in emphasizing the theological vein of the De Caelo, but focussed only on the section on the divine body of heaven, playing down books III and IV as if they were only ancillary, thus forgetting that the skopos must account for the whole of the treatise at hand. Between the two positions, Simplicius advocates the idea of a synthetical skopos, following in the footsteps of Iamblichus’ interpretation, but taking systematically into account the best of Alexander’s. The skopos of the De Caelo is the divine heaven, that “communicates” its perfections to the entire universe. Simplicius’ position is revealed to be very different with respect to that of other commentators like Ammonius and Philoponus, who both considered that the title was self-evident and required no special investigation. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/B70TifrHFuHw23y |
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Title | Simplicius et le “lieu”. À propos d’une nouvelle édition du Corollarium de loco |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 2014 |
Journal | Revue des Études Grecques |
Volume | 127 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 119-175 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Golitsis, Pantelis , Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
The digression labelled “Corollarium de loco” by Hermann Diels in his edition of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, IX, Berlin 1882) is a key text in the debate - often referred to by specialists as magna quaestio - generated by an apparent lack of consistency between Aristotle’s definition of ‘place’ (topos) as “the first unmoved boundary of the surrounding body” (Phys. IV, 4, 212 a 20-21) and his assertion that the Heaven moves in a circle while not being ‘somewhere’, since it is not surrounded by any body that would be exterior to it. Following the steps of his master Damascius, and at the end of a long discussion initiated by Neoplatonists after Plotinus (principally by Iamblichus, Proclus and Syrianus), Simplicius replaces Aristotle’s definition with a new definition of place as a “gathering (or uniting) measure” (metron sunagôgon), which is one of the four “measures” (number, size, place, time) or gathering powers that protect the intelligible and sensible entities against the dangers of the dispersion related to the procession of reality. This doctrine places physics in a decidedly theological perspective since, in last analysis, these uniting powers derive from the One or Good per se. Our understanding of this crucial text for our knowledge of the Neoplatonic philosophy of Nature will be improved thanks to a new critical edition (with French translation and notes), to be published soon in the collection “Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca and Byzantina” (by Walter de Gruyter) under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences of Bcrlin-Brandenburg. The new edition is based not only on a fresh collation of the two manuscripts used by Diels (Marciani graeci 227 and 229) but also on a Moscow manuscript (Mosquensis Muz. 3649) unknown to the German scholar, since it belonged during the nineteenth century to a private Russian collection. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VYauzSK0KjIWDqk |
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Title | Conférence de M. Philippe Hoffmann: Sens et dénomination. Homonymie, analogie, métaphore selon le commentaire de Simplicius sur les Catégories d'Aristote |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1984 |
Journal | École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire |
Volume | 93 |
Pages | 343-356 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EvdrK2W3nFfG88p |
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Title | Paratasis. De la description aspectuelle des verbes grecs à une définition du temps dans le néoplatonisme tardif |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1983 |
Journal | Revue des Études Grecques |
Volume | 96 |
Issue | 455/459 |
Pages | 1-26 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/vkSQEgocFkFlgbE |
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Title | Jamblique exégète du pythagoricien Archytas: trois originalités d’une doctrine du temps |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1980 |
Journal | Les Études philosophiques |
Volume | 3 |
Pages | 307-323 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/BdUTvNxs8OsToKM |
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Title | Conférence de M. Philippe Hoffmann: Sens et dénomination. Homonymie, analogie, métaphore selon le commentaire de Simplicius sur les Catégories d'Aristote |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1984 |
Journal | École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire |
Volume | 93 |
Pages | 343-356 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EvdrK2W3nFfG88p |
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Title | Jamblique exégète du pythagoricien Archytas: trois originalités d’une doctrine du temps |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1980 |
Journal | Les Études philosophiques |
Volume | 3 |
Pages | 307-323 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/BdUTvNxs8OsToKM |
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Title | Le σκοπός du traité aristotélicien Du Ciel selon Simplicius. Exégèse, dialectique, théologie |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 2015 |
Journal | Studia graeco-arabica |
Volume | 5 |
Pages | 27-51 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
A six-page Prologue introduces the commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo written by Simplicius after 529 AD. As usual in the exegeses typical of the Neoplatonic schools of late Antiquity, this Prologue addresses a series of preliminary questions that are meant to steer the interpretation in its entirety, as well as to frame the text to be commented upon within the reading canon of the Aristotelian works, which were intended to provide the propaedeutics to the reading canon of Plato’s dialogues. Simplicius addresses the question of the scope of De Caelo, discussing the interpretations advanced by Alexander of Aphrodisias, Iamblichus, and Syrianus. According to Alexander, this treatise deals with the universe as a whole, as well as with the five simple bodies contained in it. It was with Iamblichus, who advocated the idea that for each Platonic dialogue there was only one skopos, that the unity of a philosophical work was raised to the rank of a general rule. According to Iamblichus, the skopos of the De Caelo is the divine body of heaven. As a consequence, the primary elements that depend upon the heavens are included in the treatise. Syrianus deepens the theological tendency implied in Iamblichus’ interpretation: for him, the skopos of the De Caelo is primarily the divine body of heaven, and only secondarily the set of sublunar elements. Simplicius treasures the commentary by Alexander; nevertheless, he questions the skopos assigned by him: Alexander underestimated the importance of the unity of the treatise, even though his intention to account for each and every question raised by Aristotle was laudable. Contrarily, Syrianus was right in emphasizing the theological vein of the De Caelo, but focussed only on the section on the divine body of heaven, playing down books III and IV as if they were only ancillary, thus forgetting that the skopos must account for the whole of the treatise at hand. Between the two positions, Simplicius advocates the idea of a synthetical skopos, following in the footsteps of Iamblichus’ interpretation, but taking systematically into account the best of Alexander’s. The skopos of the De Caelo is the divine heaven, that “communicates” its perfections to the entire universe. Simplicius’ position is revealed to be very different with respect to that of other commentators like Ammonius and Philoponus, who both considered that the title was self-evident and required no special investigation. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/B70TifrHFuHw23y |
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Title | Paratasis. De la description aspectuelle des verbes grecs à une définition du temps dans le néoplatonisme tardif |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 1983 |
Journal | Revue des Études Grecques |
Volume | 96 |
Issue | 455/459 |
Pages | 1-26 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/vkSQEgocFkFlgbE |
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Title | Simplicius et le “lieu”. À propos d’une nouvelle édition du Corollarium de loco |
Type | Article |
Language | French |
Date | 2014 |
Journal | Revue des Études Grecques |
Volume | 127 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 119-175 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Golitsis, Pantelis , Hoffmann, Philippe |
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Translator(s) |
The digression labelled “Corollarium de loco” by Hermann Diels in his edition of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, IX, Berlin 1882) is a key text in the debate - often referred to by specialists as magna quaestio - generated by an apparent lack of consistency between Aristotle’s definition of ‘place’ (topos) as “the first unmoved boundary of the surrounding body” (Phys. IV, 4, 212 a 20-21) and his assertion that the Heaven moves in a circle while not being ‘somewhere’, since it is not surrounded by any body that would be exterior to it. Following the steps of his master Damascius, and at the end of a long discussion initiated by Neoplatonists after Plotinus (principally by Iamblichus, Proclus and Syrianus), Simplicius replaces Aristotle’s definition with a new definition of place as a “gathering (or uniting) measure” (metron sunagôgon), which is one of the four “measures” (number, size, place, time) or gathering powers that protect the intelligible and sensible entities against the dangers of the dispersion related to the procession of reality. This doctrine places physics in a decidedly theological perspective since, in last analysis, these uniting powers derive from the One or Good per se. Our understanding of this crucial text for our knowledge of the Neoplatonic philosophy of Nature will be improved thanks to a new critical edition (with French translation and notes), to be published soon in the collection “Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca and Byzantina” (by Walter de Gruyter) under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences of Bcrlin-Brandenburg. The new edition is based not only on a fresh collation of the two manuscripts used by Diels (Marciani graeci 227 and 229) but also on a Moscow manuscript (Mosquensis Muz. 3649) unknown to the German scholar, since it belonged during the nineteenth century to a private Russian collection. [Author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VYauzSK0KjIWDqk |
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