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's ‘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/pubEMTCazQ2ADZR |
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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 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/bA4EW9K8tgaBezs |
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Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 6’ |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 1989 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Duckworth |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Simplicius |
Editor(s) | Konstan, David |
Translator(s) | Konstan, David(Konstan, David) , |
Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics whose works have survived to the present, 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 1300 pages in the original Greek, preserve not only a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle but also fragments of lost works by other thinkers, including both the Presocratic philosophers and such Aristotalians as Eudemus, Theophrastus and Alexander. The Physics contains some of Aristotle's best and most enduring work, and Simplicius' commentaries are essential to an understanding of it. This volume makes the commentary on Book Six accessible at last to all scholars, whether or not they know classical Greek. It will be indispensible for students of classical philosophy, and especially of Aristotle, as well as for those interested in philosophical thought of late antiquity. It will also be welcomed by students of the history of ideas and philosophers interested in problem mathematics and motion. [offical abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ya32IcBAnQJ2o2t |
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Title | Simplikios: Über die Zeit. Ein Kommentar zum Corollarium de tempore |
Type | Monograph |
Language | German |
Date | 1982 |
Publication Place | Göttingen |
Publisher | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
Series | Hypomnemata |
Volume | 70 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Sonderegger, Erwin , Simplicius |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ezFzmrX4TL58a3Q |
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Title | Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories d'Aristote (In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), Traduction de Guillaume de Moerbeke. Édition critique par A. Pattin, vol. 2 |
Type | Monograph |
Language | French |
Date | 1975 |
Publication Place | Louvain |
Publisher | Publ. Universitaires |
Series | Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum |
Volume | 5 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Simplicius , Wilhelm von Moerbeke |
Editor(s) | Pattin, Adriaan |
Translator(s) |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/CSikS5UOuRiJhWf |
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Title | Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories d'Aristote (In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), Traduction de Guillaume de Moerbeke. Édition critique par A. Pattin, vol. 1 |
Type | Monograph |
Language | French |
Date | 1971 |
Publication Place | Louvain |
Publisher | Publ. Universitaires |
Series | Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum |
Volume | 5 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Simplicius , Wilhelm von Moerbeke |
Editor(s) | Pattin, Adriaan |
Translator(s) |
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Title | Simplicius, Commentationes in Praedicamenta Aristotelis |
Type | Monograph |
Language | Latin |
Date | 1550 |
Publication Place | Venedig |
Publisher | Scotus |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Simplicius |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Title | Simplicius, Corollaries on place and time |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2013 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
Editor(s) | Urmson, L., James O. , Siorvanes, Lucas |
Translator(s) | Urmson, L., James O.(Urmson, James O.) , Siorvanes, Lucas(Siorvanes, Lucas) , |
Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/krsVTsfJi9x1Qlr |
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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 1.3–4 |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2011 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Simplicius Cilicius |
Editor(s) | Huby, Pamela M. , Taylor, Christopher C. W. |
Translator(s) | Huby, Pamela M.(Huby, Pamela M.) , Taylor, Christopher C. W.(Taylor, Christopher C. W.) , |
In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography. [author's abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/a0LbiKzgZYicNE2 |
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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 ‘Categories 1–4’ |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2003 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Duckworth |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Simplicius |
Editor(s) | Chase, Michael |
Translator(s) | Chase, Michael(Chase, Michael ) , |
Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things. [offical abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/NXa0soQv5dbZ0Jy |
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Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 5-6’ |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2013 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Simplicius |
Editor(s) | Haas, Frans A. J. de , Fleet, Barrie |
Translator(s) | Haas, Frans A. J. de(de Haas, Frans A. J.) , Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's Categories. One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eW6iLytuM3BoZAe |
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Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.1-4’ |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2014 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bristol Classical Press |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry. Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth elements, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics. Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/SmNqBfzLbVSwQK3 |
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Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.10-12’ |
Type | Monograph |
Language | English |
Date | 2006 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Duckworth |
Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus and Proclus, arguing that Plato's "Timaeus" gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius denies this. In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning. |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/P8NKlsIgNfIjL2l |
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