Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?, 1990
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 113-123
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[B]oth the content of Themistius’ works, and such evidence as we have of the commentators’ attitudes to him, show that he was predominantly a Peripatetic. In this he stood out against the tendencies of his time. His frequently expressed admiration for Plato does not invalidate this conclusion. Themistius may rightly claim to have been the last major figure in antiquity who was a genuine follower of Aristotle. For him, unlike his contemporaries, Plato does not surpass the master of those who know but he, and Socrates, ‘innanzi agli altri piu presso gli stanno’. [Conclusion, p. 123]

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The school of Alexander?, 1990
By: Sharples, Robert W., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The school of Alexander?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 83-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sharples, Robert W.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
at date the collections were assembled.16 17It is not my concern here to give a full enumeration of the works attributed to Alexander or to classify them in detail. That has been done elsewhere both by myself and by others. Rather, I will proceed to a discussion of what the works can tell us about the context in which they arose. It will be helpful to start with consideration of the relation of Alexander’s works to those of his predecessors, teachers and contem­ poraries. [p. 85]

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The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology, 1990
By: Verrycken, Koenraad, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 233-274
Categories no categories
Author(s) Verrycken, Koenraad
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Simplicius: Prime Matter as Extension, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.)
Title Simplicius: Prime Matter as Extension
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Simplicius. Sa vie, son œuvre, sa survie: Actes du colloque international de Paris 28 sept. - 1er oct. 1985
Pages 148-165
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s)

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Infinity and the Creation, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Infinity and the Creation
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 164-178
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Prolegomena to the Study of Philoponus' contra Aristotelem, 1987
By: Wildberg, Christian, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Prolegomena to the Study of Philoponus' contra Aristotelem
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 197-209
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wildberg, Christian
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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John Philoponus, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title John Philoponus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 1-40
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Simplicius' polemics. Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens, 1987
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Simplicius' polemics. Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Pages 97-123
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens: I am not entirely comfortable at finding myself introducing a discordant note into a collection intended to celebrate the refreshing originality of Philoponus’ ideas. I shall, however, be speaking for Simplicius, vindictive pagan that he was, and shall hope to be an effective counterweight to what is said in other chapters.I shall be talking within the framework of a general interprétation of Simplicius’ com- mentary on Aristotle’s De caelo. [p. 1]

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Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics, 1987
By: Wolff, Michael, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 84-120
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wolff, Michael
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 120]: If we are prepared to assume that the basic presuppositions of impetus theory can be traced back not to observational experience which Aristotle missed, but rather to a certain concept of man and to certain ethical principles, we need not attempt to explain the emergence of the theory solely by reference to new observations of falling bodies and the like. Is it not more appropriate to ask about the origin and kind of ethical problem to which impetus theory originally helped to provide an answer? The experience that forces are exhausted in all physical activities of human beings could have been just such a problem. Earlier society, which had left this experience chiefly to slaves, could not really have had such a problem. But, by the close of Antiquity, times were changing.

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Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics in the Sixtheenth Century, 1987
By: Schmitt, Charles Bernard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics in the Sixtheenth Century
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Pages 210-230
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schmitt, Charles Bernard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 227]: A fuller account of the fortuna of Philoponus in the sixteenth century and an analytical study of the place of his physical thought in the development of that subject during the Renaissance requires a much more concerted effort than I have been able to give here. I hope that I have at least been able to show that the subject is worthy of further investigation.

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Infinity and the Creation, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Infinity and the Creation
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 164-178
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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John Philoponus, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title John Philoponus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 1-40
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics, 1987
By: Wolff, Michael, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus and the Rise of Preclassical Dynamics
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 84-120
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wolff, Michael
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 120]: If we are prepared to assume that the basic presuppositions of impetus theory 
can be traced back not to observational  experience which  Aristotle  missed, 
but rather to a certain concept of man and to certain ethical  principles,  we 
need not attempt to explain the emergence of the theory solely by reference to 
new observations of falling bodies and the like.  Is it not more appropriate to 
ask  about  the  origin  and  kind  of  ethical  problem  to  which  impetus  theory 
originally  helped  to  provide  an  answer?  The  experience  that  forces  are 
exhausted in all physical activities of human beings could have been just such 
a  problem.  Earlier society,  which  had  left  this  experience  chiefly  to  slaves, 
could not  really  have  had  such  a  problem.  But,  by  the close  of Antiquity, 
times were changing.

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Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics in the Sixtheenth Century, 1987
By: Schmitt, Charles Bernard, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics in the Sixtheenth Century
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Pages 210-230
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schmitt, Charles Bernard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 227]: A fuller account of the fortuna of Philoponus in the sixteenth century and an analytical study of the place of his physical thought in the development of that 
subject during the Renaissance requires a much more concerted effort than I 
have been able to give here.  I hope that I have at least been able to show that the subject is worthy of further investigation.

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Prolegomena to the Study of Philoponus' contra Aristotelem, 1987
By: Wildberg, Christian, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Prolegomena to the Study of Philoponus' contra Aristotelem
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Pages 197-209
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wildberg, Christian
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Simplicius' polemics. Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens, 1987
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Simplicius' polemics. Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Pages 97-123
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Some aspects of Simplicius‘ polemical writings against John Philoponus: From invective to a reaffirmation of the transcendence of the heavens: 
I  am  not  entirely  comfortable  at  finding  myself introducing  a  discordant note  into  a collection intended to celebrate the refreshing originality of Philoponus’  ideas.  I  shall, 
however, be speaking for Simplicius, vindictive pagan that he was, and shall hope to be 
an effective counterweight to what is said in other chapters.I shall be talking within the framework of a general interprétation of Simplicius’ com- 
mentary on Aristotle’s De caelo. [p. 1]

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Simplicius: Prime Matter as Extension, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.)
Title Simplicius: Prime Matter as Extension
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1987
Published in Simplicius. Sa vie, son œuvre, sa survie: Actes du colloque international de Paris 28 sept. - 1er oct. 1985
Pages 148-165
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s)

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The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology, 1990
By: Verrycken, Koenraad, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The development of Philoponus’ thought and its chronology
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 233-274
Categories no categories
Author(s) Verrycken, Koenraad
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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The school of Alexander?, 1990
By: Sharples, Robert W., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The school of Alexander?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 83-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sharples, Robert W.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
at date the collections were assembled.16 17It  is  not  my  concern  here  to  give  a  full  enumeration  of the  works 
attributed to Alexander or to classify them in detail. That has been done 
elsewhere  both  by  myself and  by  others.  Rather,  I  will  proceed  to  a 
discussion of what the works can tell us about the context in which they 
arose.  It  will  be  helpful  to  start  with  consideration  of the  relation  of 
Alexander’s  works  to  those  of his  predecessors,  teachers  and  contem­
poraries. [p. 85]

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Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?, 1990
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1990
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 113-123
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[B]oth the content of Themistius’ works, and such evidence as we 
have  of  the  commentators’  attitudes  to  him,  show  that  he  was 
predominantly a Peripatetic. In this he stood out against the tendencies 
of  his  time.  His  frequently  expressed  admiration  for  Plato  does  not 
invalidate this conclusion. Themistius may rightly claim to have been the 
last major figure in antiquity who was a genuine follower of Aristotle. For 
him,  unlike  his  contemporaries,  Plato  does  not  surpass  the  master  of 
those  who know but he,  and  Socrates, ‘innanzi agli  altri  piu presso gli 
stanno’. [Conclusion, p. 123]

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