The End of Aristotle's on Prayer, 1985
By: Rist, John M.
Title The End of Aristotle's on Prayer
Type Article
Language English
Date 1985
Journal The American Journal of Philology
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 110-113
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rist, John M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Jean Pepin recently devoted a lengthy study to Aristotle's On Prayer;' there is good reason to think that the work never existed. On Prayer is listed in Diogenes Laertius' catalogue of Aristotle's writings (5.22) and in the Vita Hesychii.2 The only other evidence for its exis- tence is a passage of Simplicius3 that tells us that at the end of On Prayer Aristotle says clearly that God is either mind or somehow beyond mind (6 Esoq ii voUq EaTiV Ti CrenCKEva TOU voU). The claim that God is be- yond mind is unique in an unemended Aristotelian text, but the notion would be acceptable to Simplicius both because, as a Neoplatonist, he would believe it to be true, and because as a Neoplatonic commentator on Aristotle he would be happy to find evidence of the basic philosophi- cal harmony of Aristotle and Plato. Our problem, therefore, is to see why Simplicius thought that Aristotle held this view... [pp. 110 f.]

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The Neoplatonic One and Plato’s Parmenides, 1962
By: Rist, John M.
Title The Neoplatonic One and Plato’s Parmenides
Type Article
Language English
Date 1962
Journal Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Volume 93
Pages 389–401
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rist, John M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
As long ago as 1928 Professor E. R. Dodds' demonstrated the dependence of the One of Plotinus on an interpretation of the first hypothesis of the Parmenides. His demonstration has been universally accepted. But Dodds not only showed the depen- dence of Plotinus on the Parmenides but also offered an account of the history of the doctrine of the One between the late fourth century B.C. and the third century A.D. His view is that the first three hypotheses of the Parmenides were already treated in what we should call a Neoplatonic fashion by Moderatus, a Neo- pythagorean of the second half of the first century A.D.; further, that Moderatus was not the originator of this interpretation, whose origins can in fact be traced back through Eudorus (ca. 25 B.C.) and the Neopythagoreans of his day to the Old Academy. Though Dodds is somewhat unclear at this point,2 he seems to suggest that already before the time of Eudorus the Parmenides was being interpreted in Neopythagorean fashion. In order to check this derivation, we should look at the three stages of it in detail. These stages are the Neopythagoreanism of Moderatus, the theories of Eudorus, and those of Speusippus and the Old Academy in general. [p. 389]

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The End of Aristotle's on Prayer, 1985
By: Rist, John M.
Title The End of Aristotle's on Prayer
Type Article
Language English
Date 1985
Journal The American Journal of Philology
Volume 106
Issue 1
Pages 110-113
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rist, John M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Jean  Pepin  recently devoted a  lengthy study  to  Aristotle's On 
Prayer;'  there  is good  reason  to  think  that  the  work never existed.  On 
Prayer is  listed  in  Diogenes  Laertius'  catalogue  of  Aristotle's writings (5.22)  and  in  the Vita Hesychii.2  The  only  other  evidence  for  its  exis- 
tence is a passage of Simplicius3 that tells us that at the end of  On Prayer Aristotle says clearly that  God is either  mind  or somehow  beyond  mind 
(6  Esoq ii  voUq  EaTiV Ti CrenCKEva TOU voU). The  claim  that  God  is be- 
yond mind  is unique  in an unemended  Aristotelian  text,  but  the notion 
would  be  acceptable  to  Simplicius  both  because,  as a Neoplatonist, he 
would  believe  it to be true,  and because  as a Neoplatonic  commentator 
on Aristotle he would be happy to find evidence  of the basic philosophi- cal  harmony  of  Aristotle  and  Plato.  Our  problem,  therefore,  is  to  see 
why Simplicius  thought  that  Aristotle  held  this view... [pp. 110 f.]

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The Neoplatonic One and Plato’s Parmenides, 1962
By: Rist, John M.
Title The Neoplatonic One and Plato’s Parmenides
Type Article
Language English
Date 1962
Journal Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Volume 93
Pages 389–401
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rist, John M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
As long ago as 1928 Professor E. R. Dodds'  demonstrated the 
dependence of the One of Plotinus on an interpretation of the 
first hypothesis of the Parmenides. His demonstration has been 
universally accepted.  But Dodds  not only showed the depen- 
dence of Plotinus on the Parmenides but also offered an account 
of the history of the doctrine of the One between the late fourth 
century B.C.  and the third century A.D.  His view is that the first 
three hypotheses of the Parmenides were already treated in what 
we should call  a  Neoplatonic fashion by Moderatus, a  Neo- 
pythagorean of the second half of the first century A.D.;  further, 
that Moderatus was not the originator of this interpretation, 
whose origins can  in fact be  traced back  through Eudorus 
(ca. 25 B.C.)  and the Neopythagoreans of his day to the Old 
Academy.  Though Dodds is somewhat unclear at this point,2 
he seems to suggest that already before the time of Eudorus the 
Parmenides was being interpreted in Neopythagorean fashion. 
In order to check this derivation, we should look at the three 
stages of it in detail.  These stages are the Neopythagoreanism 
of Moderatus, the theories of Eudorus, and those of Speusippus 
and the Old  Academy in general. [p. 389]

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