| Title | Perceptual awareness in the ancient commentators |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Published in | The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 323-338 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla |
| Translator(s) |
| Most Neoplatonists were convinced that the perceptual activity of the senses is a con scious activity, including even the reception of primary sense-qualities such as colours and sounds. This means that we cannot perceive anything unless we are aware of the specific impact exerted by the sense-object upon the sense-organ. The commentators can also rely on the doctrine found in Aristotles Physics 7.2, according to which what is distinctive of perceptual alterations is that the subject is aware of them.1 The problem with that discussion was that it did not explain why some alterations rather than others involve awareness. Why are we supposed to think that sense-perception implies aware ness whereas other forms of qualitative change do not? For this reason, the discussion seemed to leave mysterious the possession by the sense-organs of the capacity to perceive. Moreover, an important part of the awareness involved in sense-perception is that we are aware not only of the specific impact, but also of the perceptual activity of our sensory power. The root of the problem is exposed in Aristotle’s de Anima. In 3.2, Aristotle insists that we do perceive that we perceive. He seems to take it for granted that our perceptual system is capable of grasping its own operations. [p. 323] |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 1.1-2.4’ |
| 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) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) , |
| The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian's Paraphrase of Theophrastus on Sense Perception, which covers the same subject, will also be translated for comparison. Whatever its authorship, the commentary is a major source for late Neoplatonist theories of thought and sense perception and provides considerable insight into this important area of Aristotle's thought. In this first volume, the Neoplatonist commentator covers the first half of Aristotle's On the Soul, comprising Aristotle's survey of his predecessors and his own rival account of the nature of the soul. |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’ |
| 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) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) , |
| Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are to be counted as only one activity, however different in definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it contemplates.In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place, beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers that the past years no longer exist, so one never has an infinite collection. |
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| Title | Methods in examining sense-perception: John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Laval théologique et philosophique |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 651-661 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The paper discusses the methods applied by Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius in commenting on Aristotle’s theory of sense-perception, and indicates their differences. Philoponus frequently employs medical theories and empirical material, mostly taken from Aristotle, to highlight not only the activities of the particular senses, but also a certain kind of awareness and the way we experience our inner states. By contrast, his Athenian contemporary Pseudo-Simplicius disregards such aspects altogether. His method is deductive: He relies on some general thesis, partly taken from Iamblichus, from which to derive theses on sense-perception. The emphasis falls on Philoponus’ doctrine since his reliance on medical views leads to an interesting blend of Platonic and medical/empirical theories. [Author’s abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JzNEyDM8dW3P1qs |
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| Title | The κοινη αισθεσις in Proclus and Ps.-Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries, Volume 1 |
| Pages | 163-174 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | Stone, Martin W. F. , Baltussen, Han , Adamson, Peter |
| Translator(s) |
| Although the metaphysical systems of the Neoplatonists at Athens were much the same, their views on the human soul, particularly on its activities, showed great divergence. This is all the more striking because they were all heavily influenced by Iamblichus. But the mode and extent of that influence varied a great deal, and their theories of the human soul varied accordingly. As a case study, I shall examine the position of Proclus and Pseudo-Simplicius on the koinê aisthêsis. Both authors took Aristotle's views as the point of departure; that is obvious in Pseudo-Simplicius' commentary on the De anima and easily detectable in Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus. Moreover, both of them paid special attention to the problem of whether this sense is separate from the five particular senses or just a joint activity of the senses. My aim is to show that the different conceptions are signs of a deeper divergence. Despite the similarity of their metaphysical outlook, their views on the structure of the human soul were considerably different, and this left its mark on their accounts of the koinê aisthêsis. [Introduction, p. 163] |
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| Title | Iamblichus' Transformation of the Aristotelian “katharsis”, its Middle-Platonic Antecedents and Proclus' and Simplicius' Response to it |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Journal | Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae |
| Volume | 40 |
| Pages | 263–282 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Aristotle bequeathed his followers certain notions that were of great importance to posterity. Some of them were taken up and discussed at length in Hellenistic schools, but others escaped notice; katharsis belongs to the latter group. This is all the more surprising since the Stoics made considerable effort to demonstrate that passions (pathe) can be tamed by reason. The Stoic ideal of freedom from passions, which implies conversion of each passion into eupathei, may at first sight have some affinity with the interpretation of katharsis? which focuses on the ethical importance of emotions for Aristotle. But a closer look at the peculiar character of the Stoics' overall conception of the soul reveals that any similarity is but mere appearance. It is only among some of the later Neoplatonists that Aristotle's concept regains the significance it once had. By that time, it gains a strong ethical emphasis. As far as our evidence allows us to say, the development started in the early imperial age. My aim is to follow the renascence of this notion in Iamblichus, its antecedents among the Platonists of the early empire, and the way Proclus and Simplicius reacted to Iamblichus' attempt. [Introduction, p. 263] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3bfmOKFnAADYCl1 |
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| Title | Iamblichus' Transformation of the Aristotelian “katharsis”, its Middle-Platonic Antecedents and Proclus' and Simplicius' Response to it |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Journal | Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae |
| Volume | 40 |
| Pages | 263–282 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Aristotle bequeathed his followers certain notions that were of great importance to posterity. Some of them were taken up and discussed at length in Hellenistic schools, but others escaped notice; katharsis belongs to the latter group. This is all the more surprising since the Stoics made considerable effort to demonstrate that passions (pathe) can be tamed by reason. The Stoic ideal of freedom from passions, which implies conversion of each passion into eupathei, may at first sight have some affinity with the interpretation of katharsis? which focuses on the ethical importance of emotions for Aristotle. But a closer look at the peculiar character of the Stoics' overall conception of the soul reveals that any similarity is but mere appearance. It is only among some of the later Neoplatonists that Aristotle's concept regains the significance it once had. By that time, it gains a strong ethical emphasis. As far as our evidence allows us to say, the development started in the early imperial age. My aim is to follow the renascence of this notion in Iamblichus, its antecedents among the Platonists of the early empire, and the way Proclus and Simplicius reacted to Iamblichus' attempt. [Introduction, p. 263] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3bfmOKFnAADYCl1 |
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| Title | Methods in examining sense-perception: John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Laval théologique et philosophique |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 651-661 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The paper discusses the methods applied by Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius in commenting on Aristotle’s theory of sense-perception, and indicates their differences. Philoponus frequently employs medical theories and empirical material, mostly taken from Aristotle, to highlight not only the activities of the particular senses, but also a certain kind of awareness and the way we experience our inner states. By contrast, his Athenian contemporary Pseudo-Simplicius disregards such aspects altogether. His method is deductive: He relies on some general thesis, partly taken from Iamblichus, from which to derive theses on sense-perception. The emphasis falls on Philoponus’ doctrine since his reliance on medical views leads to an interesting blend of Platonic and medical/empirical theories. [Author’s abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JzNEyDM8dW3P1qs |
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| Title | Perceptual awareness in the ancient commentators |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Published in | The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism |
| Pages | 323-338 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla |
| Translator(s) |
Most Neoplatonists were convinced that the perceptual activity of the senses is a con scious activity, including even the reception of primary sense-qualities such as colours and sounds. This means that we cannot perceive anything unless we are aware of the specific impact exerted by the sense-object upon the sense-organ. The commentators can also rely on the doctrine found in Aristotles Physics 7.2, according to which what is distinctive of perceptual alterations is that the subject is aware of them.1 The problem with that discussion was that it did not explain why some alterations rather than others involve awareness. Why are we supposed to think that sense-perception implies aware ness whereas other forms of qualitative change do not? For this reason, the discussion seemed to leave mysterious the possession by the sense-organs of the capacity to perceive. Moreover, an important part of the awareness involved in sense-perception is that we are aware not only of the specific impact, but also of the perceptual activity of our sensory power. The root of the problem is exposed in Aristotle’s de Anima. In 3.2, Aristotle insists that we do perceive that we perceive. He seems to take it for granted that our perceptual system is capable of grasping its own operations. [p. 323] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/7cDpha17XNcRZsE |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 1.1-2.4’ |
| 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) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) , |
The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian's Paraphrase of Theophrastus on Sense Perception, which covers the same subject, will also be translated for comparison. Whatever its authorship, the commentary is a major source for late Neoplatonist theories of thought and sense perception and provides considerable insight into this important area of Aristotle's thought. In this first volume, the Neoplatonist commentator covers the first half of Aristotle's On the Soul, comprising Aristotle's survey of his predecessors and his own rival account of the nature of the soul. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/M7UeuHStEHVo1Qz |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’ |
| 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) | |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) , |
Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are to be counted as only one activity, however different in definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it contemplates.In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place, beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers that the past years no longer exist, so one never has an infinite collection. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/YfUTJzt6qIM0sqo |
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| Title | The κοινη αισθεσις in Proclus and Ps.-Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2004 |
| Published in | Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries, Volume 1 |
| Pages | 163-174 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lautner, Peter |
| Editor(s) | Stone, Martin W. F. , Baltussen, Han , Adamson, Peter |
| Translator(s) |
Although the metaphysical systems of the Neoplatonists at Athens were much the same, their views on the human soul, particularly on its activities, showed great divergence. This is all the more striking because they were all heavily influenced by Iamblichus. But the mode and extent of that influence varied a great deal, and their theories of the human soul varied accordingly. As a case study, I shall examine the position of Proclus and Pseudo-Simplicius on the koinê aisthêsis. Both authors took Aristotle's views as the point of departure; that is obvious in Pseudo-Simplicius' commentary on the De anima and easily detectable in Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus. Moreover, both of them paid special attention to the problem of whether this sense is separate from the five particular senses or just a joint activity of the senses. My aim is to show that the different conceptions are signs of a deeper divergence. Despite the similarity of their metaphysical outlook, their views on the structure of the human soul were considerably different, and this left its mark on their accounts of the koinê aisthêsis. [Introduction, p. 163] |
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