| Title | The Commentators on Aristotle's Categories and on Porphyry's Isagoge |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1973 |
| Published in | Studies in Byzantine Rhetoric |
| Pages | 101-126 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Kustas, George L. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Among the works edited in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca are a number of analyses of the Categories, Aristotle’s basic treatise on formal logic, as well as commentaries on Porphyry’s introduction to philosophy, the Isagoge, which is concerned with basic philosophical principles. Those which concern us belong to the fifth/sixth century and are the product of the Alexandrian school of Neoplatonism. The authors are Ammonius, son of Hermeias; his students, John Philoponus and Olympiodorus; and Olympiodorus’ students, Elias and David. To this list we may add Simplicius, who attended Ammonius’ lectures before emigrating to Athens. We are dealing with a common tradition of exegesis. The standard arrangement is several pages of prolegomena, in which the author lays out his purpose and defines his terms, followed by extensive scholia on individual passages. The commentators consistently make the claim that they are clearing up obscurities in the text. Hence the term dodelex appears often in their pages. Our interest, however, lies not here but in their analysis of what they regard as Aristotle’s deliberate use of obscurity as a quality of style designed with a specific end in view. We have therefore to examine in some detail what they say. [introduction p. 101] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/czKsHr75gQ60Xo4 |
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| Title | The Commentators on Aristotle's Categories and on Porphyry's Isagoge |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1973 |
| Published in | Studies in Byzantine Rhetoric |
| Pages | 101-126 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Kustas, George L. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Among the works edited in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca are a number of analyses of the Categories, Aristotle’s basic treatise on formal logic, as well as commentaries on Porphyry’s introduction to philosophy, the Isagoge, which is concerned with basic philosophical principles. Those which concern us belong to the fifth/sixth century and are the product of the Alexandrian school of Neoplatonism. The authors are Ammonius, son of Hermeias; his students, John Philoponus and Olympiodorus; and Olympiodorus’ students, Elias and David. To this list we may add Simplicius, who attended Ammonius’ lectures before emigrating to Athens. We are dealing with a common tradition of exegesis. The standard arrangement is several pages of prolegomena, in which the author lays out his purpose and defines his terms, followed by extensive scholia on individual passages. The commentators consistently make the claim that they are clearing up obscurities in the text. Hence the term dodelex appears often in their pages. Our interest, however, lies not here but in their analysis of what they regard as Aristotle’s deliberate use of obscurity as a quality of style designed with a specific end in view. We have therefore to examine in some detail what they say. [introduction p. 101] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/czKsHr75gQ60Xo4 |
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