| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3B0pZxic5793Qw5 |
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| Title | Études sur le commentaire de Porphyre sur les ‘Categories’ d’Aristote adressé à Gédalios (Ph.D. Dissertation, thèse inédite de la V Section de l’École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) [with a French translation] |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Chase, Michael |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Dg1PUx8VhlYjYuh |
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| Title | Jamblique, critique de Plotin et de Porphyre: quatre études |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Paris |
| Publisher | Vrin |
| Series | Tradition de la pensée classique |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Taormina, Daniela |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Est-il possible de donner a la metaphysique un statut scientifique tel qu'elle soit en mesure de controler toute la realite? En particulier, est-il possible d'appliquer un tel programme a la meta-ontologie neoplatonicienne, qui pose comme principe de toute realite l'Un ineffable, au-dela de l'etre? La reponse positive a cette question se trouve au fondement de la querelle entre les neoplatoniciens sur l'architecture de la meta-ontologie. Cette etude esquisse la premiere phase de ce debat qui eut comme protagonistes les philosophes les plus affirmes du IIIe et IVe siecle apres J.C.: Plotin, Porphyre et Jamblique. Elle vise a mettre en evidence le trajet epistemique que Jamblique a parcouru. La polemique qu'il conduit contre ses predecesseurs sert ici de fil conducteur pour suivre la demarche de cette legitimation. Elle est aussi l'indice d'un programme de recherche, un paradigme implicite, qui determine la selection et la formulation des problemes philosophiques et la validite des reponses, donc aussi le choix des methodes de preuve et des procedures de persuasion. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iNCHkBfT7BtCDnw |
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| Title | The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Cambridge – New York |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Long, Anthony A. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics. Assuming no knowledge of Greek or prior knowledge of the subject, this volume provides new readers with the most convenient and accessible guide to early Greek philosophy available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of early Greek thought. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/YKDCYenc5tGg0P2 |
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| Title | Commentarium in decem categorias Aristotelis. Neudruck der Ausgabe Venedig 1540 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt |
| Publisher | Frommann- Holzboog |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Dorotheus, Guillelmus(Dorotheus, Guillelmus) , |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/7lK2Nt2p13BcPH9 |
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| Title | Simplikios und das Ende der neuplatonischen Schule in Athen |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | German |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Series | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Thiel, Rainer |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Simplikios aus Kilikien (6. Jhd. n. Chr.) gehört zu den bedeutendsten und neben Alexander von Aphrodisias (2.13. Jhd. n. Chr.) auch in der Moderne am höchsten geschätzten antiken Aristoteles-Kommentatoren. Er ist mit seinem Mitschüler Priskian zusammen der letzte der heidnischen Philosophen der spätantiken platonischen Schule in Athen, von dem uns Werke erhalten sind, ausschließlich Kommentare, und zwar zu Aristoteles’ Kategorienschrift, de caeb, ,Physik' und de anima sowie zu Epiktets Enchiridion.1 Um Missverständnissen vorzubeugen, sei vorab erwähnt, dass, wenn hier von einer platonischen „Schule“ die Rede ist, dies in dem von J. Glucker2 herausgearbeiteten Sinne gemeint ist. Diese Schule war unabhängig von jeder staatlichen Förderung und stand in einer ununterbrochenen institutioneilen Kontinuität weder zur platonischen Akademie (wie schon Olympiodor fälschlich glaubte), noch zu dem unter Mark Aurel eingerichteten3 Athener Lehrstuhl für platonische Philosophie. Sie stand zwar, und sah sich selbst, in der geistigen Nachfolge der von Platon gegründeten Akademie, institutionell handelte es sich jedoch um eine neue Einrichtung, die sich durch ihr privates Vermögen selbst trug. 1927 hatte Karl Praechter in seinem RE-Artikel ‘Simplikios’ die erste zusammenhängende Würdigung dieses platonischen Philosophen und Kom-mentators gegeben, die dessen Bild auf Jahrzehnte bestimmte. 1967 und 1969 hat dann Alan Cameron mit seinen in verschiedenen Fassungen erschienenen Artikeln über das Ende der spätantiken platonischen Schule in Athen eine lebhafte Diskussion über dieses Thema und dabei insbesondere über die Frage angestoßen, wo man sich Simplikios’ Verbleib nach der Rückkehr vom persi¬schen Hof ins Römische Reich und mithin den Entstehungsort aller oder der meisten seiner Kommentare denken darf.7 Wenn dieses Thema hier noch ein¬mal aufgegriffen wird, so in der Überzeugung, dass eine zusammenfassende Würdigung der bislang vorgebrachten Argumente und die Erörterung einiger wichtiger Umstände, die in der bisherigen Diskussion keine oder nur eine ge¬ringe Rolle gespielt haben, zu einem ausgewogeneren Bild führen werden. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/2N5qVcVUEwtK2L2 |
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| 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) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ekkOJpUfdE4ldNh |
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| Title | Alexandrië 529: Philoponus en het einde van de antieke filosofie |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Dutch |
| Date | 1998 |
| Publication Place | Budel |
| Publisher | Damon |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Verrycken, Koenraad |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Alexandrië: wie kan de naam van deze stad horen zonder te denken aan de brand van de bibliotheken (47 v. Chr.), aan de zelfmoord van Cleopatra en het einde van het Ptolemaeïsche koninkrijk (30 V. Chr.)? Maar de eigenlijke betovering van Alexandrië ligt hierin dat het de ondergang van de antieke wereld in opeenvolgende, elkaar overdekkende vormen belichaamt. Alexandrië 529'behandelt de zoveelste breuk tussen verleden en toekomst en wel liet laatste kapitale moment in de strijd van liet christendom om de intellectuele alleenheerschappij. In het jaar waarin in Athene de heidense filosofische school werd gesloten (529), publiceert Philoponus in Alexandrië een christelijk filosofisch traktaat 'De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum' waarin hij probeert de academische filosofie te kerstenen. Korte tijd later valt het doek over dit christelijk-filosofisch experiment: Philoponus wordt theoloog en de Alexandrijnse filosofie valt, na de christelijke episode-Philoponus, nog voor enkele decennia terug in haar oude plooi. Daarmee wordt duidelijk dat de christelijke filosofie allerminst als voltooiing van het Alexandrijnse neoplatonisme begrepen kan worden, immers de dogmatische theologie van Philoponus te staan tegenover een heidens neoplatonisme vooral vertegenwoordigd door Olympiodorus. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mYcdp7hrXn3LjHV |
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| Title | The Legacy of Parmenides. Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1998 |
| Publication Place | Princeton |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Curd, Patricia |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. Patricia Curd here reinterprets Parmenides' views and offers a new account of his relation to his predecessors and successors. On the traditional interpretation, Parmenides argues that generation, destruction, and change are unreal and that only one thing exists. He therefore rejected as impossible the scientific inquiry practiced by the earlier Presocratic philosophers. But the philosophers who came after Parmenides attempted to explain natural change and they assumed the reality of a plurality of basic entities. Thus, on the traditional interpretation, the later Presocratics either ignored or contradicted his arguments. In this book, Patricia Curd argues that Parmenides sought to reform rather than to reject scientific inquiry and offers a more coherent account of his influence on the philosophers who came after him. The Legacy of Parmenides provides a detailed examination of Parmenides' arguments, considering his connection to earlier Greek thought and how his account of what-is could serve as a model for later philosophers. It then considers the theories of those who came after him, including the Pluralists (Anaxagoras and Empedocles), the Atomists (Leucippus and Democritus), the later Eleatics (Zeno and Melissus), and the later Presocratics Philolaus of Croton and Diogenes of Apollonia. The book closes with a discussion of the importance of Parmenides' views for the development of Plato's Theory of Forms. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ySFJ6JlG0mDNxxJ |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle's ‘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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pubEMTCazQ2ADZR |
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| 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. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/BqOloMedFhOyYDG |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/LYGupj7bzAhb6CC |
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| 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 ) . |
| This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly attributed to Simplicius. Its real author, most probably Priscian of Lydia, proves in this work to be an original philosopher who deserves to be studied, not only because of his detailed explanation of an often difficult Aristotelian text, but also because of his own psychological doctrines. In chapter six the author discusses the objects of the intellect. In chapters seven to eight he sees Aristotle as moving towards practical intellect, thus preparing the way for discussing what initiates movement in chapters nine to 11. His interpretation offers a brilliant investigation of practical reasoning and of the interaction between desire and cognition from the level of perception to the intellect. In the commentator's view, Aristotle in the last chapters (12-13) investigates the different type of organic bodies corresponding to the different forms of life (vegetative and sensory, from the most basic, touch, to the most complex). [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RDdJthQ7ArOSLv5 |
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| 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 University Scholars 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VOUUZIIp0rHNG0V |
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| Title | Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1995 |
| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EkcAbzO7PVRNnwx |
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| 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Goiwos39VOpY6H9 |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/v97a503Zq1Rl8yr |
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| Title | The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1994 |
| Publication Place | Athen |
| Publisher | Parnassos Literary Society |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tempelis, Elias |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The thesis undertakes a reconstruction and critical assessment of the theory of the Neoplatonic school of Ammonius, son of Hermias, on the presuppositions for the acquisition of knowledge of the divine and also on the contents and the purpose of this knowledge. The metaphysical position of the human soul between the intelligible and the sensible worlds allows it to know the intelligible world and the divine, in particular, provided that the cognitive reasonprinciples in the human intellect are activated. The purpose of such knowledge is the assimilation to the divine and is achieved by means of a personal struggle with the help of theoretical and practical philosophy. The school of Ammonius compared its philosophical attempt at knowledge of the divine to previous similar methods. Since the One is unknowable, the members of this school believed that man can know to some extent the Demiurge, who belongs to the second level of the intelligible world. The members of the school had different views on affirmative and negative theology. The intelligible ante rem universals, the most fundamental of which is Substance, constitute the cognitive and creative reason-principles of the demiurgic Intellect. The eternal activation of these principles result in the Demiurge's omniscience and the creation of the world, which is coetemal with the Demiurge. The Demiurge is incorporeal and exercises providence for what He has created, but He is not omnipotent. The theory of the school of Ammonius on knowledge of the divine is shown to be broadly consistent, though not necessarily convincing. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/a710mA942k0fNNF |
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| 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) |
| Prolegomena deals with the introductory and hermeuneutic sections of a wide range of commentaries and studies on philosophical, scientific, biblical and other ancient authors. Special attention is given to unclearness as a stimulus for interpretation. New light is shed on the Life of an author (e.g. Plotinus') as a preliminary to the study of his works, and on the part played by the idea that life and doctrine should agree with each other. The results obtained by the study of the practices as well as the avowed principles of ancient scholars and commentators among other things further the understanding of the interrelated philosophical, literary, medical and patristic exegetical traditions, of the book of Diogenes Laertius, of Galen's autobibliographies and of Thrasyllus' Before the Reading of the Dialogues of Plato. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/scCA9LVAgPDr4xM |
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| Title | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publication Place | Aldershot (Hampshire) |
| Publisher | Variorum |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series |
| Volume | 426 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal’s studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists’ doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual’s vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Hj2vOznXoMqSzco |
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| Title | Plato and Aristotle in Agreement: The Neoplatonist Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin) |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Bole, Thomas James |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The dissertation is a case study of the thesis of the Neoplatonist commentators that Aristotle's philosophy was in basic harmony with Plato's. The cases examined are the surviving Greek commentaries on Aristotle's Categories authored by Porphyry, Dexippus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Philoponus, Olympiodorus, and David. The Categories was the traditional introduction to a systematic reading of Aristotle's works; it is also blatantly anti-Platonist: if it could be shown to be harmonious with Plato's philosophy, Aristotle's other works could more easily be accommodated. ;The crucial move in the commentators' harmonization is set out in the dissertation's introductory chapter: how their determination of the intended theme of the Categories permits them to construe Aristotle's listed categories not as ontological, and so in competition with Platonist summa genera, but as semantic of the derivatively real material world. The second chapter notes that the commentators' conceptions of homonymy includes a relationship between intelligibles and sensibles according to which terms for sensibles receive their meaning because they signify that which derives both ontological determination and meaning from intelligible exemplars. It then takes up the commentators' treatment of issues of ontological dependence: how form is in matter; whether accidents are separable from one particular subject; and whether the last six categories are derivative from relationships among the first four. The third chapter shows that only Dexippus and Porphyry apud Dexippum demonstrate that the emanation of the sensible from the intelligible is parallel in Platonism and in Aristotle. Our other commentators either claim a looser parallelism between Plato and Aristotle or simply presume this parallelism. The fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters investigate how, and with what consistency, each of the commentators views each of the three categories of quantity, relatives, and quality as the building blocks of the sensible world. The fifth chapter also confirms Conti's thesis, not taken seriously since Luna's objections, that the commentators anticipate the modern notion of relation as a polyadic function. A final chapter examines the appropriateness of stopping the survey of the commentaries on the ninth chapter of a fifteen-chapter work. [autor's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RRFj09L0aVZ7NHb |
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| 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bA4EW9K8tgaBezs |
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| Title | Philoponus : corollaries on place and void ; with Simplicius against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1991 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius , Philoponus |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Furley, David J.(Furley, David J. ) , Wildberg, Christian(Wildberg, Christian) , |
| In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo greatly developed. In the second document Simplicius attacks a lost treatise of Philoponus which argued for the Christians against the eternity of the world. He exploits Aristotle's concession that the world contains only finite power. Simplicius' presentation of Philoponus' arguments (which may well be tendentious), together with his replies, tell us a good deal about both Philosophers. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VXsnYcvbcBQqcVL |
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| Title | Postérité de l’être. Simplicius interprète de Parménide |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1991 |
| Publication Place | Bruxelles |
| Publisher | Ousia |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Stevens, Annick |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Stevens sets out to clarify Parmenides' philosophy with an analysis of Simplicius' presentation of his fragments and the related contextual exposition. This is a complex task, as twelve centuries separate Simplicius from the Presocratics, and, although generous beyond his needs in the length of Eleatic quotations, Simplicius is only too ready to enlist Parmenides as an earlier witness to the Platonic and Neoplatonic interpretations that pervade his commentary on Aristotelian texts. A further complication is that the order imposed by Aristotle's Physics and De Caelo is at variance with the sequence of Eleatic argument. S.'s cahier is much too brief for the subject-matter involved. He has one chapter each on Parmenides' Aletheia and Doxa, sandwiched between a brief introduction and conclusion. Additionally, there is an Appendix, more than half the length of what has preceded, which consists of a translation into French (without the Greek text but with some annotation) of relevant sections from Simplicius' Phys. 28-180, 243-4, and DC 556-60. An Index of the fragments of Parmenides cited in these two works is added, as well as a short bibliography. Interspersed in the text are tables giving Greek words from Simplicius, their French translation, and a brief justification. The point of these is obscure, and, since they are hard to follow in the absence of a continuous text, the result may appear arbitrary. For example, "teleion" at Phys. 29.10 is translated as "parfait," "telos" in the next line as "accomplissement," but "teleutê" further down as "fin."Translation of Eleatic texts in general looks easier in French than English, with 'il' conveniently ambiguous for Greek masculine, neuter, or impersonal subject, and "l’Étant'" and "l’être'" (with and without capitals) for ontological terminology. The main problem with S.'s study is the level of scholarship involved and consequently the readership targeted. There are a number of ways of tackling the subject, none of which S. holds to consistently. One is a straightforward introduction to reading Parmenides' lines in their Simplicius context, and sometimes S. is writing in this way. The first chapter, for example, starts with a straightforward narrative of the 'signs' for the Aletheia, and the second with the usual listing of different views on the status of the Doxa. Simplicius' position on both these topics is given, but without any explanation of the Neoplatonic terms (like 'Etant-Un') that are used. Secondly, there is a scholarly monograph struggling to emerge. The reader can suddenly be involved in a sophisticated comparison of Parmenides' concept of "ateleston" with "apeiron" in Melissus, or in textual exegesis, or in studying the relevance of the first two hypotheses of Plato's Parmenides, or the exact meaning of "apatêlon" in B 8.52. But thirdly what is needed, as S. indicates in the subtitle, is a full and detailed discussion of Simplicius as an interpreter of Parmenides. This could usefully tackle Simplicius' reasons for finding Parmenides compatible with both Plato and Aristotle, the particular readings (or re-readings) of all four ancient authors that might be involved in the exercise, what traps might thereby be set in the path of those who are tracking the original Parmenides, and what implications would then arise for Simplicius' treatment of other Presocratics. All this is yet to be done. (Review by M. R. Wright) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/emrqNfIbKqCFiEi |
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| Title | Alexandrië 529: Philoponus en het einde van de antieke filosofie |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Dutch |
| Date | 1998 |
| Publication Place | Budel |
| Publisher | Damon |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Verrycken, Koenraad |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Alexandrië: wie kan de naam van deze stad horen zonder te denken aan de brand van de bibliotheken (47 v. Chr.), aan de zelfmoord van Cleopatra en het einde van het Ptolemaeïsche koninkrijk (30 V. Chr.)? Maar de eigenlijke betovering van Alexandrië ligt hierin dat het de ondergang van de antieke wereld in opeenvolgende, elkaar overdekkende vormen belichaamt. Alexandrië 529'behandelt de zoveelste breuk tussen verleden en toekomst en wel liet laatste kapitale moment in de strijd van liet christendom om de intellectuele alleenheerschappij. In het jaar waarin in Athene de heidense filosofische school werd gesloten (529), publiceert Philoponus in Alexandrië een christelijk filosofisch traktaat 'De aeternitate mundi contra Proclum' waarin hij probeert de academische filosofie te kerstenen. Korte tijd later valt het doek over dit christelijk-filosofisch experiment: Philoponus wordt theoloog en de Alexandrijnse filosofie valt, na de christelijke episode-Philoponus, nog voor enkele decennia terug in haar oude plooi. Daarmee wordt duidelijk dat de christelijke filosofie allerminst als voltooiing van het Alexandrijnse neoplatonisme begrepen kan worden, immers de dogmatische theologie van Philoponus te staan tegenover een heidens neoplatonisme vooral vertegenwoordigd door Olympiodorus. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mYcdp7hrXn3LjHV |
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| 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 University Scholars 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VOUUZIIp0rHNG0V |
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| Title | Commentarium in decem categorias Aristotelis. Neudruck der Ausgabe Venedig 1540 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | Latin |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt |
| Publisher | Frommann- Holzboog |
| Series | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Dorotheus, Guillelmus(Dorotheus, Guillelmus) , |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/7lK2Nt2p13BcPH9 |
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| 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Goiwos39VOpY6H9 |
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| Title | Jamblique, critique de Plotin et de Porphyre: quatre études |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Paris |
| Publisher | Vrin |
| Series | Tradition de la pensée classique |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Taormina, Daniela |
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Est-il possible de donner a la metaphysique un statut scientifique tel qu'elle soit en mesure de controler toute la realite? En particulier, est-il possible d'appliquer un tel programme a la meta-ontologie neoplatonicienne, qui pose comme principe de toute realite l'Un ineffable, au-dela de l'etre? La reponse positive a cette question se trouve au fondement de la querelle entre les neoplatoniciens sur l'architecture de la meta-ontologie. Cette etude esquisse la premiere phase de ce debat qui eut comme protagonistes les philosophes les plus affirmes du IIIe et IVe siecle apres J.C.: Plotin, Porphyre et Jamblique. Elle vise a mettre en evidence le trajet epistemique que Jamblique a parcouru. La polemique qu'il conduit contre ses predecesseurs sert ici de fil conducteur pour suivre la demarche de cette legitimation. Elle est aussi l'indice d'un programme de recherche, un paradigme implicite, qui determine la selection et la formulation des problemes philosophiques et la validite des reponses, donc aussi le choix des methodes de preuve et des procedures de persuasion. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iNCHkBfT7BtCDnw |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/LYGupj7bzAhb6CC |
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| Title | Philoponus : corollaries on place and void ; with Simplicius against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1991 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius , Philoponus |
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| Translator(s) | Furley, David J.(Furley, David J. ) , Wildberg, Christian(Wildberg, Christian) , |
In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite anticipated Galileo, as did his denial that speed of fall is proportionate to weight, which Galileo greatly developed. In the second document Simplicius attacks a lost treatise of Philoponus which argued for the Christians against the eternity of the world. He exploits Aristotle's concession that the world contains only finite power. Simplicius' presentation of Philoponus' arguments (which may well be tendentious), together with his replies, tell us a good deal about both Philosophers. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VXsnYcvbcBQqcVL |
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| Title | Plato and Aristotle in Agreement: The Neoplatonist Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin) |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Bole, Thomas James |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The dissertation is a case study of the thesis of the Neoplatonist commentators that Aristotle's philosophy was in basic harmony with Plato's. The cases examined are the surviving Greek commentaries on Aristotle's Categories authored by Porphyry, Dexippus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Philoponus, Olympiodorus, and David. The Categories was the traditional introduction to a systematic reading of Aristotle's works; it is also blatantly anti-Platonist: if it could be shown to be harmonious with Plato's philosophy, Aristotle's other works could more easily be accommodated. ;The crucial move in the commentators' harmonization is set out in the dissertation's introductory chapter: how their determination of the intended theme of the Categories permits them to construe Aristotle's listed categories not as ontological, and so in competition with Platonist summa genera, but as semantic of the derivatively real material world. The second chapter notes that the commentators' conceptions of homonymy includes a relationship between intelligibles and sensibles according to which terms for sensibles receive their meaning because they signify that which derives both ontological determination and meaning from intelligible exemplars. It then takes up the commentators' treatment of issues of ontological dependence: how form is in matter; whether accidents are separable from one particular subject; and whether the last six categories are derivative from relationships among the first four. The third chapter shows that only Dexippus and Porphyry apud Dexippum demonstrate that the emanation of the sensible from the intelligible is parallel in Platonism and in Aristotle. Our other commentators either claim a looser parallelism between Plato and Aristotle or simply presume this parallelism. The fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters investigate how, and with what consistency, each of the commentators views each of the three categories of quantity, relatives, and quality as the building blocks of the sensible world. The fifth chapter also confirms Conti's thesis, not taken seriously since Luna's objections, that the commentators anticipate the modern notion of relation as a polyadic function. A final chapter examines the appropriateness of stopping the survey of the commentaries on the ninth chapter of a fifteen-chapter work. [autor's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RRFj09L0aVZ7NHb |
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| Title | Postérité de l’être. Simplicius interprète de Parménide |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1991 |
| Publication Place | Bruxelles |
| Publisher | Ousia |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Stevens, Annick |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Stevens sets out to clarify Parmenides' philosophy with an analysis of Simplicius' presentation of his fragments and the related contextual exposition. This is a complex task, as twelve centuries separate Simplicius from the Presocratics, and, although generous beyond his needs in the length of Eleatic quotations, Simplicius is only too ready to enlist Parmenides as an earlier witness to the Platonic and Neoplatonic interpretations that pervade his commentary on Aristotelian texts. A further complication is that the order imposed by Aristotle's Physics and De Caelo is at variance with the sequence of Eleatic argument. S.'s cahier is much too brief for the subject-matter involved. He has one chapter each on Parmenides' Aletheia and Doxa, sandwiched between a brief introduction and conclusion. Additionally, there is an Appendix, more than half the length of what has preceded, which consists of a translation into French (without the Greek text but with some annotation) of relevant sections from Simplicius' Phys. 28-180, 243-4, and DC 556-60. An Index of the fragments of Parmenides cited in these two works is added, as well as a short bibliography. Interspersed in the text are tables giving Greek words from Simplicius, their French translation, and a brief justification. The point of these is obscure, and, since they are hard to follow in the absence of a continuous text, the result may appear arbitrary. For example, "teleion" at Phys. 29.10 is translated as "parfait," "telos" in the next line as "accomplissement," but "teleutê" further down as "fin."Translation of Eleatic texts in general looks easier in French than English, with 'il' conveniently ambiguous for Greek masculine, neuter, or impersonal subject, and "l’Étant'" and "l’être'" (with and without capitals) for ontological terminology. The main problem with S.'s study is the level of scholarship involved and consequently the readership targeted. There are a number of ways of tackling the subject, none of which S. holds to consistently. One is a straightforward introduction to reading Parmenides' lines in their Simplicius context, and sometimes S. is writing in this way. The first chapter, for example, starts with a straightforward narrative of the 'signs' for the Aletheia, and the second with the usual listing of different views on the status of the Doxa. Simplicius' position on both these topics is given, but without any explanation of the Neoplatonic terms (like 'Etant-Un') that are used. Secondly, there is a scholarly monograph struggling to emerge. The reader can suddenly be involved in a sophisticated comparison of Parmenides' concept of "ateleston" with "apeiron" in Melissus, or in textual exegesis, or in studying the relevance of the first two hypotheses of Plato's Parmenides, or the exact meaning of "apatêlon" in B 8.52. But thirdly what is needed, as S. indicates in the subtitle, is a full and detailed discussion of Simplicius as an interpreter of Parmenides. This could usefully tackle Simplicius' reasons for finding Parmenides compatible with both Plato and Aristotle, the particular readings (or re-readings) of all four ancient authors that might be involved in the exercise, what traps might thereby be set in the path of those who are tracking the original Parmenides, and what implications would then arise for Simplicius' treatment of other Presocratics. All this is yet to be done. (Review by M. R. Wright) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/emrqNfIbKqCFiEi |
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| 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) |
Prolegomena deals with the introductory and hermeuneutic sections of a wide range of commentaries and studies on philosophical, scientific, biblical and other ancient authors. Special attention is given to unclearness as a stimulus for interpretation. New light is shed on the Life of an author (e.g. Plotinus') as a preliminary to the study of his works, and on the part played by the idea that life and doctrine should agree with each other. The results obtained by the study of the practices as well as the avowed principles of ancient scholars and commentators among other things further the understanding of the interrelated philosophical, literary, medical and patristic exegetical traditions, of the book of Diogenes Laertius, of Galen's autobibliographies and of Thrasyllus' Before the Reading of the Dialogues of Plato. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/scCA9LVAgPDr4xM |
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| Title | Simplicius - Commentaire sur le "Manuel" d'Épictète |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 1995 |
| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/EkcAbzO7PVRNnwx |
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| 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) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ekkOJpUfdE4ldNh |
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| 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 ) |
This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly attributed to Simplicius. Its real author, most probably Priscian of Lydia, proves in this work to be an original philosopher who deserves to be studied, not only because of his detailed explanation of an often difficult Aristotelian text, but also because of his own psychological doctrines. In chapter six the author discusses the objects of the intellect. In chapters seven to eight he sees Aristotle as moving towards practical intellect, thus preparing the way for discussing what initiates movement in chapters nine to 11. His interpretation offers a brilliant investigation of practical reasoning and of the interaction between desire and cognition from the level of perception to the intellect. In the commentator's view, Aristotle in the last chapters (12-13) investigates the different type of organic bodies corresponding to the different forms of life (vegetative and sensory, from the most basic, touch, to the most complex). [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/RDdJthQ7ArOSLv5 |
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| 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. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/BqOloMedFhOyYDG |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/v97a503Zq1Rl8yr |
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| 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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bA4EW9K8tgaBezs |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle's ‘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. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pubEMTCazQ2ADZR |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3B0pZxic5793Qw5 |
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| Title | Simplikios und das Ende der neuplatonischen Schule in Athen |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | German |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Stuttgart |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Series | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse |
| Volume | 8 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Thiel, Rainer |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Simplikios aus Kilikien (6. Jhd. n. Chr.) gehört zu den bedeutendsten und neben Alexander von Aphrodisias (2.13. Jhd. n. Chr.) auch in der Moderne am höchsten geschätzten antiken Aristoteles-Kommentatoren. Er ist mit seinem Mitschüler Priskian zusammen der letzte der heidnischen Philosophen der spätantiken platonischen Schule in Athen, von dem uns Werke erhalten sind, ausschließlich Kommentare, und zwar zu Aristoteles’ Kategorienschrift, de caeb, ,Physik' und de anima sowie zu Epiktets Enchiridion.1 Um Missverständnissen vorzubeugen, sei vorab erwähnt, dass, wenn hier von einer platonischen „Schule“ die Rede ist, dies in dem von J. Glucker2 herausgearbeiteten Sinne gemeint ist. Diese Schule war unabhängig von jeder staatlichen Förderung und stand in einer ununterbrochenen institutioneilen Kontinuität weder zur platonischen Akademie (wie schon Olympiodor fälschlich glaubte), noch zu dem unter Mark Aurel eingerichteten3 Athener Lehrstuhl für platonische Philosophie. Sie stand zwar, und sah sich selbst, in der geistigen Nachfolge der von Platon gegründeten Akademie, institutionell handelte es sich jedoch um eine neue Einrichtung, die sich durch ihr privates Vermögen selbst trug. 1927 hatte Karl Praechter in seinem RE-Artikel ‘Simplikios’ die erste zusammenhängende Würdigung dieses platonischen Philosophen und Kom-mentators gegeben, die dessen Bild auf Jahrzehnte bestimmte. 1967 und 1969 hat dann Alan Cameron mit seinen in verschiedenen Fassungen erschienenen Artikeln über das Ende der spätantiken platonischen Schule in Athen eine lebhafte Diskussion über dieses Thema und dabei insbesondere über die Frage angestoßen, wo man sich Simplikios’ Verbleib nach der Rückkehr vom persi¬schen Hof ins Römische Reich und mithin den Entstehungsort aller oder der meisten seiner Kommentare denken darf.7 Wenn dieses Thema hier noch ein¬mal aufgegriffen wird, so in der Überzeugung, dass eine zusammenfassende Würdigung der bislang vorgebrachten Argumente und die Erörterung einiger wichtiger Umstände, die in der bisherigen Diskussion keine oder nur eine ge¬ringe Rolle gespielt haben, zu einem ausgewogeneren Bild führen werden. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/2N5qVcVUEwtK2L2 |
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| Title | Soul and intellect: Studies in Plotinus and later Neoplatonism |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publication Place | Aldershot (Hampshire) |
| Publisher | Variorum |
| Series | Variorum collected studies series |
| Volume | 426 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blumenthal, Henry J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This book presents a series of Dr. Blumenthal’s studies on the history of Neoplatonism, from its founder Plotinus to the end of Classical Antiquity, relating especially to the Neoplatonists’ doctrines about the soul. The work falls into two parts. The first deals with Plotinus and considers the soul both as part of the structure of the universe and in its capacity as the basis of the individual’s vital and cognitive functions. The second part is concerned with the later history of Neoplatonism, including its end. Its main focus is the investigation of how Neoplatonic psychology was modified and developed by later philosophers, in particular the commentators on Aristotle, and used as the starting point for their Platonizing interpretations of his philosophy. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Hj2vOznXoMqSzco |
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| Title | The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1999 |
| Publication Place | Cambridge – New York |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Long, Anthony A. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics. Assuming no knowledge of Greek or prior knowledge of the subject, this volume provides new readers with the most convenient and accessible guide to early Greek philosophy available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of early Greek thought. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/YKDCYenc5tGg0P2 |
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| Title | The Legacy of Parmenides. Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1998 |
| Publication Place | Princeton |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Curd, Patricia |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. Patricia Curd here reinterprets Parmenides' views and offers a new account of his relation to his predecessors and successors. On the traditional interpretation, Parmenides argues that generation, destruction, and change are unreal and that only one thing exists. He therefore rejected as impossible the scientific inquiry practiced by the earlier Presocratic philosophers. But the philosophers who came after Parmenides attempted to explain natural change and they assumed the reality of a plurality of basic entities. Thus, on the traditional interpretation, the later Presocratics either ignored or contradicted his arguments. In this book, Patricia Curd argues that Parmenides sought to reform rather than to reject scientific inquiry and offers a more coherent account of his influence on the philosophers who came after him. The Legacy of Parmenides provides a detailed examination of Parmenides' arguments, considering his connection to earlier Greek thought and how his account of what-is could serve as a model for later philosophers. It then considers the theories of those who came after him, including the Pluralists (Anaxagoras and Empedocles), the Atomists (Leucippus and Democritus), the later Eleatics (Zeno and Melissus), and the later Presocratics Philolaus of Croton and Diogenes of Apollonia. The book closes with a discussion of the importance of Parmenides' views for the development of Plato's Theory of Forms. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ySFJ6JlG0mDNxxJ |
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| Title | The School of Ammonius, Son of Hermias, on Knowledge of the Divine |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1994 |
| Publication Place | Athen |
| Publisher | Parnassos Literary Society |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tempelis, Elias |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The thesis undertakes a reconstruction and critical assessment of the theory of the Neoplatonic school of Ammonius, son of Hermias, on the presuppositions for the acquisition of knowledge of the divine and also on the contents and the purpose of this knowledge. The metaphysical position of the human soul between the intelligible and the sensible worlds allows it to know the intelligible world and the divine, in particular, provided that the cognitive reasonprinciples in the human intellect are activated. The purpose of such knowledge is the assimilation to the divine and is achieved by means of a personal struggle with the help of theoretical and practical philosophy. The school of Ammonius compared its philosophical attempt at knowledge of the divine to previous similar methods. Since the One is unknowable, the members of this school believed that man can know to some extent the Demiurge, who belongs to the second level of the intelligible world. The members of the school had different views on affirmative and negative theology. The intelligible ante rem universals, the most fundamental of which is Substance, constitute the cognitive and creative reason-principles of the demiurgic Intellect. The eternal activation of these principles result in the Demiurge's omniscience and the creation of the world, which is coetemal with the Demiurge. The Demiurge is incorporeal and exercises providence for what He has created, but He is not omnipotent. The theory of the school of Ammonius on knowledge of the divine is shown to be broadly consistent, though not necessarily convincing. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/a710mA942k0fNNF |
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| Title | Études sur le commentaire de Porphyre sur les ‘Categories’ d’Aristote adressé à Gédalios (Ph.D. Dissertation, thèse inédite de la V Section de l’École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) [with a French translation] |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2000 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Chase, Michael |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Dg1PUx8VhlYjYuh |
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