| Title | Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1980 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-170 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The Alexandrian commentator of the sixth century A. D., John Philoponus, is arguably the most interesting of Aristotle's Greek exegetes. He is not the most orthodox, since his commentaries are variously infused with ideas drawn from neoplatonism, and from Christian philosophy.1 But he more than compensates for exegetical infidelity by his originality in challenging and enlarging Aristotelianism, particularly in the area of physical theory. This achievement is well understood thanks to recent studies by Sambursky, Wieland, and Wolff, that have dealt with such topics as his theory of light, his concept of mass, his dynamics, his theory of space, and his polemic against the Aristotelian belief in the eternity of the universe.2 In the present paper I shall discuss other ideas from the same general area that are perhaps less strikingly original, but that nonetheless illustrate well Philoponus' method of working within the confines of Aristotelian exegesis, whilst injecting his own philoso phical assumptions. [p. 151] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/p7CzPV8ZEV2uRso |
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| Title | Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics. A study of the De mixtione with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1976 |
| Publication Place | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Philosophia antiqua |
| Volume | 28 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The importance of Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Aristotelian tradition in Western philosophy is well established. This reputa› tion however rests almost exclusively on his very influential inter› pretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of the active intellect. The subject of the present study, the de mixtione, is a treatise in which he deals with the philosophically less important topic of the mixture of physical bodies. My aim is to show that both as an exposition of Aristotelian thought and as an extended discussion of Stoic physics it offers an excellent opportunity to observe the development of Peripatetic scholasticism in the face of ideas developed in post› Aristotelian philosophy. In this way I shall try to establish the largely unacknowledged importance of Alexander’s contribution to the Greek philosophical tradition. Alexander is still unfortunately a relatively obscure author and so I have devoted Part One of this study to a basic description of his works and a preliminary attempt to place him in his intel› lectual milieu. His philosophical creativity, as this essay will show, has greater rein in his short treatises than in his monumental commentaries, and it is from these works that his relation to other philosophical schools can best be gauged. Like his de Jato the de mixtione is basically an attack on the Stoics, but it also contains a great deal of important source material and some constructive criticisms of Stoic physics. Much of this I shall evaluate in a com› mentary in Part Three, but these aspects of the work must also be seen in the light of similar contributions by our other sources for Stoic physics as well as Alexander’s own overall relation to Stoicism. For this reason in Part Two I survey the latter before undertaking an extended examination of Alexander’s exposition and critique of the Stoic theory of total blending (xpiia~<; 8~’ lSAwv), the main subject of the de mixtione. [preface] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4Gg0RFYjZ0oHdLr |
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| Title | Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics. A study of the De mixtione with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1976 |
| Publication Place | Leiden |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Philosophia antiqua |
| Volume | 28 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The importance of Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Aristotelian tradition in Western philosophy is well established. This reputa› tion however rests almost exclusively on his very influential inter› pretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of the active intellect. The subject of the present study, the de mixtione, is a treatise in which he deals with the philosophically less important topic of the mixture of physical bodies. My aim is to show that both as an exposition of Aristotelian thought and as an extended discussion of Stoic physics it offers an excellent opportunity to observe the development of Peripatetic scholasticism in the face of ideas developed in post› Aristotelian philosophy. In this way I shall try to establish the largely unacknowledged importance of Alexander’s contribution to the Greek philosophical tradition. Alexander is still unfortunately a relatively obscure author and so I have devoted Part One of this study to a basic description of his works and a preliminary attempt to place him in his intel› lectual milieu. His philosophical creativity, as this essay will show, has greater rein in his short treatises than in his monumental commentaries, and it is from these works that his relation to other philosophical schools can best be gauged. Like his de Jato the de mixtione is basically an attack on the Stoics, but it also contains a great deal of important source material and some constructive criticisms of Stoic physics. Much of this I shall evaluate in a com› mentary in Part Three, but these aspects of the work must also be seen in the light of similar contributions by our other sources for Stoic physics as well as Alexander’s own overall relation to Stoicism. For this reason in Part Two I survey the latter before undertaking an extended examination of Alexander’s exposition and critique of the Stoic theory of total blending (xpiia~<; 8~’ lSAwv), the main subject of the de mixtione. [preface] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4Gg0RFYjZ0oHdLr |
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| Title | Some Concepts in Physical Theory in John Philoponus' Aristotelian Commentaries |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1980 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-170 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Todd, Robert B. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The Alexandrian commentator of the sixth century A. D., John Philoponus, is arguably the most interesting of Aristotle's Greek exegetes. He is not the most orthodox, since his commentaries are variously infused with ideas drawn from neoplatonism, and from Christian philosophy.1 But he more than compensates for exegetical infidelity by his originality in challenging and enlarging Aristotelianism, particularly in the area of physical theory. This achievement is well understood thanks to recent studies by Sambursky, Wieland, and Wolff, that have dealt with such topics as his theory of light, his concept of mass, his dynamics, his theory of space, and his polemic against the Aristotelian belief in the eternity of the universe.2 In the present paper I shall discuss other ideas from the same general area that are perhaps less strikingly original, but that nonetheless illustrate well Philoponus' method of working within the confines of Aristotelian exegesis, whilst injecting his own philoso phical assumptions. [p. 151] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/p7CzPV8ZEV2uRso |
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