Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12', 1997
By: Simplicius,
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12'
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos ) .

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Simplicius, On Aristotles ‘Physics 5’, 1997
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotles ‘Physics 5’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, James O.(Urmson, James O.) ,
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on. This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.

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John Philoponus' new definition of prime matter : aspects of its background in Neoplatonism and the ancient commentary tradition, 1997
By: Haas, Frans A. J. de
Title John Philoponus' new definition of prime matter : aspects of its background in Neoplatonism and the ancient commentary tradition
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place Leiden – New York - Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia Antiqua
Volume 69
Categories no categories
Author(s) Haas, Frans A. J. de
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This study provides the first full discussion of Philoponus' excursus on matter in contra Proclum XI. 1-8 which sets out the innovative definition of prime matter as three-dimensional extension. The author argues that Philoponus' definition was motivated primarily by philosophical problems in Neoplatonism. Philoponus employs the explanation of growth, the interpretation of Aristotle's category theory and the notions of formlessness and potentiality to substantiate his definition. To conclude, the book offers an assessment of the significance of Philoponus' innovation. It is demonstrated for the first time that Plotinus' view of matter exerted considerable influence on both Philoponus and Simplicius. Moreover, the structure of Syrianus' and Proclus' metaphysics prepared the way for Philoponus' account of prime matter. [Author’s abstract]

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On Aristotle's Categories 7-8, 1997
By: Simplicius
Title On Aristotle's Categories 7-8
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) ,
In "Categories" chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined. Arisotle offers two definitons, and the second, stricter, one is often cited by his defenders in order to rule out objections. The second definition of relative involves the idea of something changing its relationship through a change undergone by its correlate, not by itself. There were disagreements as to whether this was genuine change, and Plotinus discussed whether relatives exist only in the mind, without being real. The terms used by Aristotle for such relationships was 'being disposed relatively to something', a term later borrowed by the Stoics for their fourth category, and perhaps originating in Plato's Academy. In his discussion of Quality, Aristotle reports a debate on whether justice admits of degrees, or whether only the possession of justice does so. Simplicius reports the further development of this controversy in terms of whether justice admits a range or latitude (platos). This debate helped to inspire the medieval idea of latitude of forms, which goes back much further than is commonly recognised - at least to Plato and Aristotle. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2, 1997
By: Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) ,
Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural selection in favour of purpose in nature. Simplicius, writing in the sixth century Ad, adds his own considerable contribution to this work. Seeing Aristotle's God as a Creator, he discusses how nature relates to soul, adds Stoic and Neoplatonist causes to Aristotle's list of four, and questions the likeness of cause to effect. He discusses missing a great evil or a great good by a hairsbreadth and considers whether animals act from reason or natural instinct. He also preserves a Posidonian discussion of mathematical astronomy.

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Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria, 1996
By: Diels, Hermann (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1996
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimers
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 10
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Diels, Hermann
Translator(s)

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Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima", 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J.
Title Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima"
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1996
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Steven Strange, Emory UniversityScholars have traditionally used the Aristotelian commentators as sources for lost philosophical works and occasionally also as aids to understanding Aristotle. In H. J. Blumenthal's view, however, the commentators often assumed that there was a Platonist philosophy to which not only they but Aristotle himself subscribed. Their expository writing usually expressed their versions of Neoplatonist philosophy. Blumenthal here places the commentators in their intellectual and historical contexts, identifies their philosophical views, and demonstrates their tendency to read Aristotle as if he were a member of their philosophical circle.This book focuses on the commentators' exposition of Aristotle's treatise De anima (On the Soul), because it is relatively well documented and because the concept of soul was so important in all Neoplatonic systems. Blumenthal explains how the Neoplatonizing of Aristotle's thought, as well as the widespread use of the commentators' works, influenced the understanding of Aristotle in both the Islamic and Judaeo-Christian traditions.H. J. Blumenthal is the author or coeditor of six previous books and is currently preparing a two-volume translation, with introduction and commentary, of Simplicius' Commentary on "De anima" for publication in Cornell's series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle.

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Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète, 1996
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1996
Publication Place Leiden – New York – Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua
Volume 66
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s)
The significance of Simplicius' commentary lies in the fact that it is a Neoplatonist interpretation of a Stoic text. This volume presents the first critical edition based on all the known manuscripts of this work and offers, in contrast to the edition of Schweighäuser (1800) and the recapitulation of this edition by Dübner (1840), a text which is more complete and improved. A long introduction places the work in the philosophical and historical context of its time and characterises it as a spiritual exercise. The edition is preceded by a summary of the history of the text. [authors abstract]

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Concepts of space in Greek thought, 1995
By: Algra, Keimpe A.
Title Concepts of space in Greek thought
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1995
Publication Place Leiden – New York – Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia Antiqua
Volume 65
Categories no categories
Author(s) Algra, Keimpe A.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Concepts of Space in Greek Thought studies ancient Greek theories of physical space and place, in particular those of the classical and Hellenistic period. These theories are explained primarily with reference to the general philosophical or methodological framework within which they took shape. Special attention is paid to the nature and status of the sources. Two introductory chapters deal with the interrelations between various concepts of space and with Greek spatial terminology (including case studies of the Eleatics, Democritus and Epicurus). The remaining chapters contain detailed studies on the theories of space of Plato, Aristotle, the early Peripatetics and the Stoics. The book is especially useful for historians of ancient physics, but may also be of interest to students of Aristotelian dialectic, ancient metaphysics, doxography, and medieval and early modern physics.

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Prolegomena: Questions to Be Settled Before the Study of an Author, or a Text, 1994
By: Mansfeld, Jaap
Title Prolegomena: Questions to Be Settled Before the Study of an Author, or a Text
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1994
Publication Place Leiden
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia Antiqua
Volume 61
Categories no categories
Author(s) Mansfeld, Jaap
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria, 1996
By: Diels, Hermann (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1996
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimers
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 10
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Diels, Hermann
Translator(s)

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Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète, 1996
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1996
Publication Place Leiden – New York – Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua
Volume 66
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s)
The significance of Simplicius' commentary lies in the fact that it is a Neoplatonist interpretation of a Stoic text. This volume presents the first critical edition based on all the known manuscripts of this work and offers, in contrast to the edition of Schweighäuser (1800) and the recapitulation of this edition by Dübner (1840), a text which is more complete and improved. A long introduction places the work in the philosophical and historical context of its time and characterises it as a spiritual exercise. The edition is preceded by a summary of the history of the text. [authors abstract]

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Simplicius on Continuous and Instantaneous Change: Neoplatonic Elements in Simplicius’ Interpretation of Aristotelian Physics, 1998
By: Croese, Irma Maria
Title Simplicius on Continuous and Instantaneous Change: Neoplatonic Elements in Simplicius’ Interpretation of Aristotelian Physics
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1998
Publication Place Utrecht
Publisher Zeno Institute of Philosophy
Series Quaestiones Infinita
Volume 23
Categories no categories
Author(s) Croese, Irma Maria
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12', 1997
By: Simplicius,
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle 'On the Soul 2.5–12'
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Steel, Carlos(Steel, Carlos )

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2, 1997
By: Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 2
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) ,
Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's ideas, as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It introduces the seminal idea of four causes, or four modes of explanation. It defines chance, but rejects a theory of chance and natural selection in favour of purpose in nature.
Simplicius, writing in the sixth century Ad, adds his own considerable contribution to this work. Seeing Aristotle's God as a Creator, he discusses how nature relates to soul, adds Stoic and Neoplatonist causes to Aristotle's list of four, and questions the likeness of cause to effect. He discusses missing a great evil or a great good by a hairsbreadth and considers whether animals act from reason or natural instinct. He also preserves a Posidonian discussion of mathematical astronomy.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7, 1994
By: Simplicius, Cilicius,
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 7
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1994
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Hagen, Charles(Hagen, Charles)
There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship: for example, in the fourth century BC Eudemus, the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle, left it out of his treatment of the Physics. Now, for the first time, Charles Hagen's lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius' commentary on Book 7, an indispensable tool for the understanding of the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotle's text than the one which survives today. [author's abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’, 1992
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1992
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.() ,
This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15, 2000
By: Simplicius, Gaskin, Richard (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2000
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Gaskin, Richard
Translator(s) Gaskin, Richard(Gaskin, Richard ) ,
Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification into five kinds which included change.
In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and editor, Porphyry, defended all six categories as applicable to the physical world, even if not to the world of Platonic Forms to which Platonist studies must eventually progress. Porphyry's pupil, lamblichus, went further: taken in a suitable sense, Aristotle's categories apply also to the world of Forms, although they require Pythagorean reinterpretation. Simplicius may be closer to Porphyry that to lamblichus, and indeed Porphyry's defence established Aristotle's categories once and for all in Western thought. But the probing controversy of this period none the less revealed more effectively than any discussion of modern times the profound difficulties in Aristotle's categorical scheme. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotles ‘Physics 5’, 1997
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotles ‘Physics 5’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, James O.(Urmson, James O.) ,
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle.
In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on.
This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 3.1–5’, 2000
By: Simplicius , Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius: On Aristotle ‘On the Soul 3.1–5’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2000
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. (Blumenthal, Henry J.) ,
In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas.
In his commentary on Aristotle's text, 'Simplicius' insists that the intellect in question is not something transcendental but the human rational soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of the soul has never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic Forms, and Proclus' view that the soul cannot be changed in its substance through embodiment.
He also denies that imagination sees things as true or false, which requires awareness of one's own cognitions. He thinks that imagination works by projecting imprints. In the case of mathematics, it can make the imprints more like shapes taken on during sense perception or more like concepts, which calls for lines without breadth. He acknowledges that Aristotle would not agree to reify these concepts as substances, but thinks of mathematical entities as mere abstractions.
Addressing the vexed question of authorship, H. J. Blumenthal concludes that the commentary was written neither by Simplicius nor Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he suggests that if Priscian had any hand in this commentary, it might have been as editor of notes from Simplicius' lectures. [offical abstract]

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