Title | Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | English |
Date | 2016 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Edition No. | 2 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | |
Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
Translator(s) |
The story of the ancient commentators on Aristotle has not previously been told at book length. Here it is assembled for the fi rst time by drawing both on some of the classic articles translated into English or revised and on the very latest research. Some of the chapters will be making revisionary suggestions unfamiliar even to specialists in the fi eld. Th e philosophical interest of the commentators has been illustrated elsewhere. 1 Th e aim here is not so much to do this again as to set out the background of the commentary tradition against which further philosophical discussion and discussions of other kinds can take place. Th e importance of the commentators lies partly in their representing the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and Neoplatonist schools, partly in the panorama they provide of the 1100 years of Ancient Greek philosophy, preserving as they do many original quotations from lost philosophical works. Still more signifi cant is their profound infl uence, uncovered in some of the chapters below, on subsequent philosophy, Islamic and European. Th is was due partly to their preserving anti-Aristotelian material which helped to inspire medieval and Renaissance science, but still more to their presenting an Aristotle transformed in ways which happened to make him acceptable to the Christian Church. It is not just Aristotle, but this Aristotle transformed and embedded in the philosophy of the commentators, that lies behind the views of later thinkers. [authors abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/rc8z8z0DitsjROp |
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Title | Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | English |
Date | 2016 |
Publication Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Edition No. | 2 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | |
Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
Translator(s) |
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Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/rc8z8z0DitsjROp |
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