| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Gaskin, Richard |
| Translator(s) | Gaskin, Richard(Gaskin, Richard ) , |
| Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification into five kinds which included change. In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and editor, Porphyry, defended all six categories as applicable to the physical world, even if not to the world of Platonic Forms to which Platonist studies must eventually progress. Porphyry's pupil, lamblichus, went further: taken in a suitable sense, Aristotle's categories apply also to the world of Forms, although they require Pythagorean reinterpretation. Simplicius may be closer to Porphyry that to lamblichus, and indeed Porphyry's defence established Aristotle's categories once and for all in Western thought. But the probing controversy of this period none the less revealed more effectively than any discussion of modern times the profound difficulties in Aristotle's categorical scheme. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/PDqqQ72RYXj7VT5 |
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| Title | Simplicius: On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 3.1–5’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Translator(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. (Blumenthal, Henry J.) , |
| In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas. In his commentary on Aristotle's text, 'Simplicius' insists that the intellect in question is not something transcendental but the human rational soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of the soul has never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic Forms, and Proclus' view that the soul cannot be changed in its substance through embodiment. He also denies that imagination sees things as true or false, which requires awareness of one's own cognitions. He thinks that imagination works by projecting imprints. In the case of mathematics, it can make the imprints more like shapes taken on during sense perception or more like concepts, which calls for lines without breadth. He acknowledges that Aristotle would not agree to reify these concepts as substances, but thinks of mathematical entities as mere abstractions. Addressing the vexed question of authorship, H. J. Blumenthal concludes that the commentary was written neither by Simplicius nor Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he suggests that if Priscian had any hand in this commentary, it might have been as editor of notes from Simplicius' lectures. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Ic4w7j2wFv2xfas |
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| Title | Commentarium in decem categorias Aristotelis. Neudruck der Ausgabe Venedig 1540 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt |
| Publisher | Frommann- Holzboog |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Dorotheus, Guillelmus(Dorotheus, Guillelmus) , |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Nmq1x0z5nRTojlN |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12' |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos ) . |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RzMpkMgZxgVygQK |
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| Title | Priscian: On Theophrastus on Sense-Perception with 'Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 2.5-12 |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius , Priscianus |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Huby, Pamela M.(Huby, Pamela M.) , Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos ) , |
| Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Emperor Justinian closed the paganschool there in A.D. 529. The commentaries ascribed to them on works on sense-perception, one by Aristotle and one by his successor Theophrastus, are translated here in this single volume. Both commentaries give a highly Neoplatonic reading to their Aristotelian subjects and tell us much about late Neoplatonist psychology. This volume is also designed to enable readers to assess a recent major controversy: it has been argued by Carlos Steel and Fernand Bossier that the commentary ascribed to Simplicius is in fact by Priscian, and their article, hitherto only available in Dutch, is here published in revised form and in English for the first time. This book therefore contains all the evidence necessary for readers to judge this intriguing question for themselves. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/oYMeNNoid5OarXV |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotles ‘Physics 5’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, James O.(Urmson, James O.) , |
| Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on. This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/p3xyHwwxMtdOBQm |
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| Title | On Aristotle's Categories 7-8 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
| In "Categories" chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined. Arisotle offers two definitons, and the second, stricter, one is often cited by his defenders in order to rule out objections. The second definition of relative involves the idea of something changing its relationship through a change undergone by its correlate, not by itself. There were disagreements as to whether this was genuine change, and Plotinus discussed whether relatives exist only in the mind, without being real. The terms used by Aristotle for such relationships was 'being disposed relatively to something', a term later borrowed by the Stoics for their fourth category, and perhaps originating in Plato's Academy. In his discussion of Quality, Aristotle reports a debate on whether justice admits of degrees, or whether only the possession of justice does so. Simplicius reports the further development of this controversy in terms of whether justice admits a range or latitude (platos). This debate helped to inspire the medieval idea of latitude of forms, which goes back much further than is commonly recognised - at least to Plato and Aristotle. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/cC4JNSLyBnAfgAn |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
| Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural selection in favour of purpose in nature. Simplicius, writing in the sixth century Ad, adds his own considerable contribution to this work. Seeing Aristotle's God as a Creator, he discusses how nature relates to soul, adds Stoic and Neoplatonist causes to Aristotle's list of four, and questions the likeness of cause to effect. He discusses missing a great evil or a great good by a hairsbreadth and considers whether animals act from reason or natural instinct. He also preserves a Posidonian discussion of mathematical astronomy. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3eAwbtGZAJA4W3n |
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| Type | Monograph |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 1996 |
| Publication Place | Berlin |
| Publisher | Reimers |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 10 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Diels, Hermann |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/PoQ39rcsh6kgJZZ |
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| Title | Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1996 |
| Publication Place | Leiden – New York – Köln |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Philosophia antiqua |
| Volume | 66 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Hadot, Ilsetraut |
| Translator(s) |
| The significance of Simplicius' commentary lies in the fact that it is a Neoplatonist interpretation of a Stoic text. This volume presents the first critical edition based on all the known manuscripts of this work and offers, in contrast to the edition of Schweighäuser (1800) and the recapitulation of this edition by Dübner (1840), a text which is more complete and improved. A long introduction places the work in the philosophical and historical context of its time and characterises it as a spiritual exercise. The edition is preceded by a summary of the history of the text. [authors abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4Tzk23TTiAE8nmk |
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| Title | Commentarium in decem categorias Aristotelis. Neudruck der Ausgabe Venedig 1540 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt |
| Publisher | Frommann- Holzboog |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Dorotheus, Guillelmus(Dorotheus, Guillelmus) , |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Nmq1x0z5nRTojlN |
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| Title | On Aristotle's Categories 7-8 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
In "Categories" chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined. Arisotle offers two definitons, and the second, stricter, one is often cited by his defenders in order to rule out objections. The second definition of relative involves the idea of something changing its relationship through a change undergone by its correlate, not by itself. There were disagreements as to whether this was genuine change, and Plotinus discussed whether relatives exist only in the mind, without being real. The terms used by Aristotle for such relationships was 'being disposed relatively to something', a term later borrowed by the Stoics for their fourth category, and perhaps originating in Plato's Academy. In his discussion of Quality, Aristotle reports a debate on whether justice admits of degrees, or whether only the possession of justice does so. Simplicius reports the further development of this controversy in terms of whether justice admits a range or latitude (platos). This debate helped to inspire the medieval idea of latitude of forms, which goes back much further than is commonly recognised - at least to Plato and Aristotle. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/cC4JNSLyBnAfgAn |
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| Title | Priscian: On Theophrastus on Sense-Perception with 'Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 2.5-12 |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius , Priscianus |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Huby, Pamela M.(Huby, Pamela M.) , Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos ) , |
Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Emperor Justinian closed the paganschool there in A.D. 529. The commentaries ascribed to them on works on sense-perception, one by Aristotle and one by his successor Theophrastus, are translated here in this single volume. Both commentaries give a highly Neoplatonic reading to their Aristotelian subjects and tell us much about late Neoplatonist psychology. This volume is also designed to enable readers to assess a recent major controversy: it has been argued by Carlos Steel and Fernand Bossier that the commentary ascribed to Simplicius is in fact by Priscian, and their article, hitherto only available in Dutch, is here published in revised form and in English for the first time. This book therefore contains all the evidence necessary for readers to judge this intriguing question for themselves. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/oYMeNNoid5OarXV |
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| Title | Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 1996 |
| Publication Place | Berlin |
| Publisher | Reimers |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 10 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Diels, Hermann |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/PoQ39rcsh6kgJZZ |
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| Title | Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1996 |
| Publication Place | Leiden – New York – Köln |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Philosophia antiqua |
| Volume | 66 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Hadot, Ilsetraut |
| Translator(s) |
The significance of Simplicius' commentary lies in the fact that it is a Neoplatonist interpretation of a Stoic text. This volume presents the first critical edition based on all the known manuscripts of this work and offers, in contrast to the edition of Schweighäuser (1800) and the recapitulation of this edition by Dübner (1840), a text which is more complete and improved. A long introduction places the work in the philosophical and historical context of its time and characterises it as a spiritual exercise. The edition is preceded by a summary of the history of the text. [authors abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4Tzk23TTiAE8nmk |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12' |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos ) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RzMpkMgZxgVygQK |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1997 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural selection in favour of purpose in nature. Simplicius, writing in the sixth century Ad, adds his own considerable contribution to this work. Seeing Aristotle's God as a Creator, he discusses how nature relates to soul, adds Stoic and Neoplatonist causes to Aristotle's list of four, and questions the likeness of cause to effect. He discusses missing a great evil or a great good by a hairsbreadth and considers whether animals act from reason or natural instinct. He also preserves a Posidonian discussion of mathematical astronomy. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3eAwbtGZAJA4W3n |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1994 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Hagen, Charles(Hagen, Charles) |
There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship: for example, in the fourth century BC Eudemus, the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle, left it out of his treatment of the Physics. Now, for the first time, Charles Hagen's lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius' commentary on Book 7, an indispensable tool for the understanding of the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotle's text than the one which survives today. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iCxryN3Wv5Q0lFW |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1992 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, J. O.() , |
This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/r5h6zL7qzOqvakH |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Gaskin, Richard |
| Translator(s) | Gaskin, Richard(Gaskin, Richard ) , |
Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification into five kinds which included change. In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and editor, Porphyry, defended all six categories as applicable to the physical world, even if not to the world of Platonic Forms to which Platonist studies must eventually progress. Porphyry's pupil, lamblichus, went further: taken in a suitable sense, Aristotle's categories apply also to the world of Forms, although they require Pythagorean reinterpretation. Simplicius may be closer to Porphyry that to lamblichus, and indeed Porphyry's defence established Aristotle's categories once and for all in Western thought. But the probing controversy of this period none the less revealed more effectively than any discussion of modern times the profound difficulties in Aristotle's categorical scheme. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/PDqqQ72RYXj7VT5 |
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