Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence, 2016
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2016
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Edition No. 2
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
The story of the ancient commentators on Aristotle has not previously been told at book length. Here it is assembled for the fi rst time by drawing both on some of the classic articles translated into English or revised and on the very latest research. Some of the chapters will be making revisionary suggestions unfamiliar even to specialists in the fi eld. Th e philosophical interest of the commentators has been illustrated elsewhere. 1 Th e aim here is not so much to do this again as to set out the background of the commentary tradition against which further philosophical discussion and discussions of other kinds can take place. Th e importance of the commentators lies partly in their representing the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and Neoplatonist schools, partly in the panorama they provide of the 1100 years of Ancient Greek philosophy, preserving as they do many original quotations from lost philosophical works. Still more signifi cant is their profound infl uence, uncovered in some of the chapters below, on subsequent philosophy, Islamic and European. Th is was due partly to their preserving anti-Aristotelian material which helped to inspire medieval and Renaissance science, but still more to their presenting an Aristotle transformed in ways which happened to make him acceptable to the Christian Church. It is not just Aristotle, but this Aristotle transformed and embedded in the philosophy of the commentators, that lies behind the views of later thinkers. [authors abstract]

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Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines, 2016
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Golitsis, Pantelis, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 531–540
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe , Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Simplicius’ Corollary on Place (Corollarium de loco) is not a doxographic text but a strictly Neoplatonic philosophical work, with its own philosophical method. It takes the form of a digression interrupting the continuity of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (itself a written work intended for readers, hoi entugkhanontes, hoi enteuxomenoi), and its literary genre is that of a monograph treatise using dialectic and exegesis as its principal methods. The dialectical method consists in discussing the opinions of Simplicius’ predecessors, ancient and modern, mainly Aristotle and Proclus, to pave the way for the exposition of the truth, following the method inaugurated by Aristotle in the Topics and still very much alive. It also proceeds by puzzles and solutions (aporiai kai luseis). Th e exegetic method reappears even within a digression which breaks with the continuous commentary and Simplicius devotes sometimes long passages to quoting and commenting on texts from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Proclus, and Damascius, but also from the Chaldaean Oracles, Iamblichus, or Syrianus. Throughout this piece Simplicius maintains complete control over his material which includes the art of rhetoric, dialectical technique, and his philosophic intention. In it, he replaces the Aristotelian defi nition of place (‘the first unmoved boundary of the surrounding body’ (to tou periekhontos peras akinêton prôton), Phys . 4.4, 212a20–1) with a new defi nition taken from his master Damascius (place is the measure of the intrinsic positioning (metron tês theseôs) of the parts of a body, and of its right position in a greater surrounding whole), and he departs from Aristotle’s thought with a radical innovation which progressively works its way in. [introduction]

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The Life and Works of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic Sources, 2016
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The Life and Works of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic Sources
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages 295-326
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
If I am now speaking about the life and works of Simplicius again aft er having devoted a chapter of my book Le problème du néoplatonisme Alexandrin to this subject eight years ago, it is because in the intervening period new research has been conducted which seems to me capable of enriching our knowledge considerably on this subject. [p. 298]

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Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition, 2010
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2010
Publication Place London
Publisher Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Series BICS Supplement
Volume 103
Edition No. 2
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Introduction to the Second Edition: New findings on Philoponus, 2010
By: Sorabji, Richard
Title Introduction to the Second Edition: New findings on Philoponus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2010
Published in Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Pages 1-40
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Introduction to the second Edition of Sorabij, Richard: Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science: Since 1987, when the first edition of this book appeared, there have been new findings both about Philoponus' thought and about his milieu... [p. 1]

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The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle, 2006
By: Sorabji, Richard, Tarrant, Harold (Ed.), Baltzly, Dirk (Ed.)
Title The Transformation of Plato and Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2006
Published in Reading Plato in antiquity
Pages 185-193
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s) Tarrant, Harold , Baltzly, Dirk
Translator(s)
In Neoplatonism, though not in Aristotelian ism, Plato and Aristotle are transformed in a variety of different ways. The transformation is partly driven by a wish to harmonize Plato and Aristotle, but only partly. There is less effort to harmonize the two in some commentators than in others, and on some issues, we shall see, there is less harmonization among our commentators than there was in the Middle Platonism of an earlier period. Further, the transformation of views is driven by other factors too besides harmonization. [p. 185]

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The Philosophy of the Commentators 200–600 AD: A Sourcebook; I: Psychology (with Ethics and Religion); II: Physics; III: Logic and Metaphysics, 2005
By: Sorabji, Richard
Title The Philosophy of the Commentators 200–600 AD: A Sourcebook; I: Psychology (with Ethics and Religion); II: Physics; III: Logic and Metaphysics
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2005
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This is the first work to draw on the four hundred years of transition from ancient Greek philosophy to the medieval philosophy of Islam and the West. During this period, philosophy was often written in the form of commentaries on the works of Plato and Aristotle. Many ideas wrongly credited to the Middle Ages derive from these centuries, such as that of impetus in dynamics and intentional objects in philosophy of mind. The later Neoplatonist commentators fought a losing battle with Christianity, but inadvertently made Aristotle acceptable to Christians by ascribing to him belief in a Creator God and human immortality. The commentators provide a panorama of up to a thousand years of Greek philosophy, much of which would otherwise be lost. They also serve as the missing link essential for understanding the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Volume 1 deals with psychology, which for the Neoplatonist commentators was the gateway to metaphysics and theology. It was the subject on which Plato and Aristotle disagreed most, and on which the commentators went furthest beyond them in their search for synthesis. Ethics and religious practice fall naturally under psychology and are included in this volume. All sources appear in English translation and are carefully linked and cross-referenced by editorial comment and explanation. Bibliographies are provided throughout.

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Aristotle and after, 1997
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Aristotle and after
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place University of London
Publisher Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study
Series BICS (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies) Supplement
Volume 68
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
A selection of papers given at the Institute of Classical Studies during 1996. They cover a variety of new work on the 900 years of philosophy from Aristotle to Simplicius. There is a strong concentration on stoicism with papers by: Michael Frede ( Euphrates of Tyre ); A. A. Long ( Property ownership and community ); Brad Inwood ( 'Why do fools fallin love?' ); Susanne Bobzein ( freedom and ethics ); Richard Gaskin ( cases, predicates and the unity of the proposition ); Richard Sorabji ( stoic philosophy and psychotherapy ); Bernard Williams ( reply to Richard Sorabji ). The other papers are by: Heinrich von Staden ( Galen and the 'Second Sophistic' ); Hans B. Gottschalk ( continuity and change in Aristotelianism ); Travis Butler ( the homonymy of signification in Aristotle ); Andrea Falcon ( Aristotle's theory of division ); Sylvia Berryman (Horror Vacui in the third century BC ); M. B. Trapp ( On the Tablet of Cebes ); Marwan Rashed ( a 'new' text of Alexander on the soul's motion ). [authors abstract]

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The Stoics on cases, predicates, and the unity of the proposition, 1997
By: Gaskin, Richard , Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title The Stoics on cases, predicates, and the unity of the proposition
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Aristotle and after
Pages 91-107
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gaskin, Richard
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
As far as traditional classifications go, the Stoics count as materialists. But it is notorious that there were four things in their world-view which do not fit this caracterization: time, place, the void and the so-called ‘sayables', or lekta (SE AM 10.218 = FDS 720). Lekta consist of three main kinds of quasi-linguistic item: centrally, simple propositions (as well as certain non-assertoric, but grammatically autonomous, items) are ‘complete’ lekta (DL 7 .6-8 = FDS 696, 874; SE AM 8.70-74). From these propositions, more complex ‘complete’ lekta maybe constructed, such as conditionals (DL 7.71) or syllogisms (DL 7.63). And within the structure of complete lekta, ‘incomplete’ lekta, such as predicates, maybe discerned. I call lekta quasi-linguistic, rather than linguistic, because, as we learn from an important passage in Sextus (AM 8.11-13 = FDS 67), the Stoics distinguished lekta both from language and from physical objects in the world. Hence linguistic items such as the verb (rhêma) ‘writes’ and the complete sentence (logos) ‘Socrates writes’ should be kept rigorously apart from their corresponding lekta - the predicate (katigorema) writes and the complete proposition (axidma) Socrates writes - which the linguistic expressions signify (semainein: SE AM 8.11 - 12, DL 7.56, 58, 65). In this paper I shall examine the Stoic treatment of the main constituents of the complete lekton: cases and predicates. I shall argue that cases are, like predicates, (incomplete) lekta, and that the verbal noun played a central role in Stoic thinking about lekta. In the light of these reflections, I shall conclude with some speculative remarks on the unity of the proposition. [Introduction, p. 91]

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A “New” Text of Alexander on the Soul’s Motion, 1997
By: Rashed, Marwan, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title A “New” Text of Alexander on the Soul’s Motion
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1997
Published in Aristotle and after
Pages 181-195
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rashed, Marwan
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, pp. 181 f.]: To conclude, then, the historical evolution of the polemics may be summarised as follows: 1. ‘Aristotelian’ claim of the intellect from without; 2. Atticus attacks the intellect from without because of its inability to move; 3. Aristoteles of Mytilene (as reported by Alexander in Cl) defends the intellect from without by claiming its ubiquity; 4. Alexander (De intell., C2) criticises Aristoteles’ solution to Atticus’ criticisms and gives an alternative reply to Atticus by accounting for separation in terms of thought processes; 5. Alexander {In Phys.) attacks Atticus’ vehicle-theory on the grounds that it does not resolve the question at all and alludes indirectly to his previous solution. Thus, we may conclude that the De intellectu is an authentic work of Alexander, but an earlier one than the commentary on the Physics.

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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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John Philoponus’ Commentary on the Third Book of Aristotle’s De Anima, Wrongly Attributed to Stephanus, 2016
By: Golitsis, Pantelis, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title John Philoponus’ Commentary on the Third Book of Aristotle’s De Anima, Wrongly Attributed to Stephanus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 393-412
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
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Matter, Space, and Motion. Theories in Antiquity and Their Sequel, 1988
By: Sorabji, Richard
Title Matter, Space, and Motion. Theories in Antiquity and Their Sequel
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1988
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The nature of matter was as intriguing a question for ancient philosophers as it is for contemporary physicists, and Matter, Space, and Motion presents a fresh and illuminating account of the rich legacy of the physical theories of the Greeks from the fifth century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. [a.a]

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Mixture in Philoponus: An Encounter with a Third Kind of Potentiality, 2016
By: de Haas, Frans A. J., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Mixture in Philoponus: An Encounter with a Third Kind of Potentiality
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 413-436
Categories no categories
Author(s) de Haas, Frans A. J.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
In charting the commentary tradition on Aristotle’s work from Late Antiquity through Arabic, Latin Medieval, and Renaissance authors it is tempting to assume we are dealing with a single line of tradition. However, it is still far from clear which ancient commentaries were available (in Greek or in Arabic, Syrian, or Latin translation) at what date. But even if this can be established we cannot be sure that a particular commentator actually used his predecessors’ commentaries, even when he refers to them by name: perhaps he merely copied a reference from another commentary. In this way Zabarella’s mistake may have arisen. More importantly, every commentator who analyses the problem of the potentiality of the ingredients in a mixture as it is presented in Aristotle’s texts in On Generation and Corruption is faced with a limited number of possible solutions. Every commentator, then, is perfectly capable of reinventing the wheel. However, the application of the third kind of potentiality in the context of mixture seems to have been invented for the first time by John Philoponus. [conclusion]

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Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science, 1987
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 1987
Publication Place Ithaca, New York
Publisher Cornell University Press
Edition No. 1
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
All the chapters in this book are new, except for the inaugural lecture (Chapter 9), which I apologise for reprinting virtually unrevised and with the original lecture context still apparent. It seemed desirable, however, that so crucial a part ofthe controversy should be represented. The collection originated in a conference on Philoponus held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in June 1983, which provided an opportunity for interested parties to pool knowledge from the many different disciplines that are relevant to his work. Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 6 are drawn from the conference, while two other conference papers, those of Henry Blumenthal and Richard Sorabji, are being incorporated into books in preparation (see Bibliography). Sorabji's main suggestions, however, are included in Chapter I in the discussion of matter and extension (pp 18 and 23). The remairnng  chapters, apart from the inaugural lecture, were solicited or written for the volume, two of them (5 and 12) having been delivered first at a seminar on Ancient Science at the Institute of Classical Studies. [preface, p. ix-x]

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Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition, 2010
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science. Second Edition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2010
Publication Place London
Publisher Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Series BICS Supplement
Volume 103
Edition No. 2
Categories no categories
Author(s)
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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Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus, 2016
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo, Rashed, Marwan, Sedley, David N., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 231-262
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Rashed, Marwan , Sedley, David N.
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Riccardo Chiaradonna has studied Boethus’ downgrading also of universals, again by reference to the Categories ’ defi nition of substance. On this ground, universals are not even a something (a Stoic category, lower than substance). Simplicius tells us: ‘Boethus says fi rst that the universal does not even exist in reality ( einai en hupostasei ), according to Aristotle, and even if it did have any reality, it would not be a something . Aristotle rather said it was in something’. Chiaradonna concludes from a discussion of a number of passages that Boethus thought of a universal as nothing but a collection of particulars. Th e recently recovered fragments of Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Categories in Chapter 8 below, speaking of animal, similarly say ‘none of these generic items is a subject’. The text of Porphyry translated and analysed in this chapter includes among others a further new fragment on Boethus’ treatment of division by differentia at 14,4–15. Rashed has drawn attention to yet another way in which Boethus downgrades something of Aristotle’s: the priority of Aristotle’s fi rst fi gure of syllogism. Or at least he puts Aristotle’s figures all on the same level. The figures are Aristotle’s patterns of valid argument concerning all, some, or none of a class of things, and Aristotle thought that certain arguments in the second and third figures had to be proved equivalent to certain arguments in the fi rst, before they could be seen as valid. I shall discuss below the resumption of the debate in the fourth century by the commentator Themistius. Rashed has translated Th emistius’ text from the superior of two Arabic manuscripts into French. It is to be hoped that Chiaradonna and Rashed, two of the translators of the fragment in Chapter 8, will carry out their plan of compiling the fi rst collection of fragments of Boethus, of which Michael Griffin has already noticed around fifty.  [introduction]

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