| Title | Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2021 |
| Journal | History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 210-241 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Olympiodorus led the Platonist school of philosophy at Alexandria for several decades in the sixth century, and both Platonic and Aristotelian commentaries ascribed to him survive. During this time the school’s attitude to the teaching of Aristotelian syllogistic, originally owing something to Ammonius, changed markedly, with an early tendency to reinforce the teaching of syllogistic even in Platonist lectures giving way to a greater awareness of its limitations. The vocabulary for arguments and their construction becomes far commoner than the language of syllogistic and syllogistic figures, and also of demonstration. I discuss the value of these changes for the dating of certain works, especially where the text lectured on does not demand different emphases. The commitment to argument rather than to authority continues, but a greater emphasis eventually falls on the establishment of the premises than on formal validity. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5sE7J9nmDwQKOuK |
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| Title | Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Laval théologique et philosophique |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-595 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The hermeneutic tradition concerning Aristotle’s Categories goes back to Eudorus and his contemporaries in the first century BC. Initially a perplexing text, it forces the Platonist to consider a variety of new dialectical questions. The criticisms of Eudorus demonstrate the desire for orderly arrangements, and pose questions that the hermeneutic tradition, culminating in the magnificent commentary of Simplicius, would try to answer. His pursuit of a critical agenda does not warrant the label “anti-Aristotelian” or “polemical”, but it does show why he preferred to be known as an Academic than as a Peripatetic. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iC06bZZXGF8tDws |
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| Title | More on Zeno's "Forty logoi" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1990 |
| Journal | Illinois Classical Studies |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-37 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/tm3aWetZtisL8E7 |
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| Title | Eudorus and the Early Platonist Interpretation of the "Categories" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Laval théologique et philosophique |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-595 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The hermeneutic tradition concerning Aristotle’s Categories goes back to Eudorus and his contemporaries in the first century BC. Initially a perplexing text, it forces the Platonist to consider a variety of new dialectical questions. The criticisms of Eudorus demonstrate the desire for orderly arrangements, and pose questions that the hermeneutic tradition, culminating in the magnificent commentary of Simplicius, would try to answer. His pursuit of a critical agenda does not warrant the label “anti-Aristotelian” or “polemical”, but it does show why he preferred to be known as an Academic than as a Peripatetic. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iC06bZZXGF8tDws |
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| Title | Formal Argument and Olympiodorus’ Development as a Plato-Commentator |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2021 |
| Journal | History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 210-241 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Olympiodorus led the Platonist school of philosophy at Alexandria for several decades in the sixth century, and both Platonic and Aristotelian commentaries ascribed to him survive. During this time the school’s attitude to the teaching of Aristotelian syllogistic, originally owing something to Ammonius, changed markedly, with an early tendency to reinforce the teaching of syllogistic even in Platonist lectures giving way to a greater awareness of its limitations. The vocabulary for arguments and their construction becomes far commoner than the language of syllogistic and syllogistic figures, and also of demonstration. I discuss the value of these changes for the dating of certain works, especially where the text lectured on does not demand different emphases. The commitment to argument rather than to authority continues, but a greater emphasis eventually falls on the establishment of the premises than on formal validity. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/5sE7J9nmDwQKOuK |
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| Title | More on Zeno's "Forty logoi" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1990 |
| Journal | Illinois Classical Studies |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-37 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tarrant, Harold |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/tm3aWetZtisL8E7 |
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