Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic, 2023
By: Baltussen, Han, Muzala, Melina (Ed.)
Title Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
Pages 441-456
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)
The focus of this chapter is one aspect of Aristotle’s dialectic which has been under-explored until recently and may throw some light on the approach of the late Platonist philosopher and scholar Simplicius (c. 480–c. 540 CE), in particular his Aristotelian tendencies when it comes to constructing his huge commentaries. I am referring to one of the possible applications of the dialectical method as sketched by Aristotle in his first and eighth books of the Topics. In my previous work I have been studying this aspect of Aristotle’s methodology, emphasizing the important distinction between propaedeutic and applied dialectic. At the core of those efforts was an attempt to show how one can take Aristotle’s claims for a scientific use of dialectic seriously, so long as we have a proper understanding of the status of propaedeutic dialectic as it is expounded in his Topics (school prac- tice and exercises) against the applied form of (evolved) dialectic which goes far beyond this early form, debating skills which have become transformed into an internalized form of dialectic.

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Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 2023
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Publisher De Gruyter
Series Topics in Ancient Philosophy/ Themen der antiken Philosophie
Volume 10
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Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)
The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Greek dialectic to various aspects of human life and soul, to self-knowledge and self-consciousness, to science, rhetoric, and political theory.

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Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary, 2023
By: Griffin, Michael J., Muzala, Melina (Ed.)
Title Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
Pages 371-396
Categories no categories
Author(s) Griffin, Michael J.
Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)

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Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception, 2023
By: Muzala, Melina (Ed.)
Title Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 2023
Publication Place Berlin/Boston
Publisher De Gruyter
Series Topics in Ancient Philosophy/ Themen der antiken Philosophie
Volume 10
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)
The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Greek dialectic to various aspects of human life and soul, to self-knowledge and self-consciousness, to science, rhetoric, and political theory. 

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Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary, 2023
By: Griffin, Michael J., Muzala, Melina (Ed.)
Title Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
Pages 371-396
Categories no categories
Author(s) Griffin, Michael J.
Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)

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Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic, 2023
By: Baltussen, Han, Muzala, Melina (Ed.)
Title Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2023
Published in Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
Pages 441-456
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Muzala, Melina
Translator(s)
The focus of this chapter is one aspect of Aristotle’s dialectic which has been
under-explored until recently and may throw some light on the approach of the
late Platonist philosopher and scholar Simplicius (c. 480–c. 540 CE), in particular
his Aristotelian tendencies when it comes to constructing his huge commentaries.
I am referring to one of the possible applications of the dialectical method as
sketched by Aristotle in his first and eighth books of the Topics. In my previous
work I have been studying this aspect of Aristotle’s methodology, emphasizing
the important distinction between propaedeutic and applied dialectic. At the core of those efforts was an attempt to show how one can take Aristotle’s claims
for a scientific use of dialectic seriously, so long as we have a proper understanding
of the status of propaedeutic dialectic as it is expounded in his Topics (school prac-
tice and exercises) against the applied form of (evolved) dialectic which goes far
beyond this early form, debating skills which have become transformed into an internalized form of dialectic.

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