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Harran, the Sabians and the Late Platonist 'Movers', 2005
By: Lane Fox, Robin, Smith, Andrew (Ed.)

Title	Harran, the Sabians and the Late Platonist 'Movers'
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	The philosopher and society in late antiquity. Essays in honour of Peter Brown
Pages	231-244
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Lane Fox, Robin
Editor(s)	Smith, Andrew
Translator(s)

Since 1986, in a series of wide-ranging studies, M. Tardieu has argued that the ‘Seven philosophers who went East when the Athens Academy closed settled down at Harran (Carrhae) in northern Syria. The town was a famous bastion of pagan cult (we can usefully contrast its neighbour, perhaps its rival, the stridently Christian Edessa: Green 1992, 44-94; Segal 1970). Furthermore, he believes, a (neo)Platonic seat of philosophical teaching persisted in Harran into the ninth/tenth centuries ad, being sustained in the wake of the émigrés’ presence. Its participants presented themselves as the ‘Sabians’, the enigmatic group who had been favourably mentioned in the Koran. They then led the renewed prominence of Platonist philosophy in the Abbasid era which is visible to us in the ninth-tenth centuries. This theory of a long Platonist ‘survival’ has not exactly endeared itself to experts in early Islamic philosophy (e.g. Gutas 1994, 4943; Endress 1991, 133-7; Lameer 1997), but it has been enthusiastically received by one or two writers on late antiquity: P. Chuvin (1990), I. Hadot (1996, who was first attracted by support for her studies of Simplicius, his text and Manichaeism) and P. Athanassiadi (1993, 29) who made it the final flourish of a long article on late pagan philosophy: ‘it was thanks to the stepping-stone of Harran and to Damascius’ inspired decisiveness [in settling in Harran] that Neoplatonic theology reached Baghdad by a clearly definable - if not direct — route from Athens’. I wish to restate why it did nothing of the sort. [introduction, p. 231]

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Movers and Shakers, 2005
By: Lane Fox, Robin, Smith, Andrew (Ed.)

Title	Movers and Shakers
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	The philosopher and society in late antiquity. Essays in honour of Peter Brown
Pages	19-50
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Lane Fox, Robin
Editor(s)	Smith, Andrew
Translator(s)

In late antiquity, as in all other periods, philosophy had the power to change a person’s choice of life and scale of values. The ‘shakers’ of my title are people who passed on this sort of impact to others. Philosophy, including Platonist philosophy, also addressed the intellectual’s relation to contemporary society. If that society was incurably misguided, then the philosopher might have no option except to leave it. In late antiquity, some took this option, and they are my ‘movers’. Both the ‘shakers’ and the ‘movers’ need to be understood in terms of the philosophy they professed, but a sufficient understanding of their actions does not require a deep analysis of their deepest thoughts. They are within a historian’s grasp, and so I will discuss individuals, their texts and contexts without a close reading of particular arguments. [Introduction, p. 19]

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Commentators on Aristotle, 2005
By: Falcon, Andrea, Zalta, Edward N. (Ed.)

Title	Commentators on Aristotle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Falcon, Andrea
Editor(s)	Zalta, Edward N.
Translator(s)

The philosophical commentary emerged as an important mode of expression towards the end of the Hellenistic period and into Late Antiquity, as Plato and Aristotle were regarded as philosophical authorities and their works were subject to intense study. This entry provides a concise account of how the revival of interest in the philosophy of Aristotle developed into the commentary tradition, with special emphasis on the study of the Categories. The commentary format was not only used to expound the works of Aristotle, but also as a vehicle for original philosophical theorizing. The commentators shared the practice of reading and commenting on Aristotle's texts, but there was no philosophy of the commentators in the sense of a definite set of doctrines that all the ancient commentators on Aristotle shared. The exegetical tradition was diverse, and different commentators developed different lines of interpretations in the light of the different concerns that motivated their exegesis. [introduction/conclusion]

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Empedocles' Physica Book I: A New Reconstruction, 2005
By: Janko, Richard, Pierrēs, Apostolos L. (Ed.)

Title	Empedocles' Physica Book I: A New Reconstruction
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	The Empedoclean Kosmos. Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity
Pages	93-137
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Janko, Richard
Editor(s)	Pierrēs, Apostolos L.
Translator(s)

The article discusses the significance of the discovery of papyrus fragments from Empedocles' Physics in Strasbourg, the first time a text from a known Presocratic philosopher has been found in a papyrus. Despite being a disappointment due to the overlapping content with the longest extant fragment of Physics Book I, the author offers a new solution to the puzzles presented by the papyrus. By reconstructing a passage from Empedocles' Physics 131 verses long, the author reveals a more coherent and less bizarre philosophical system and argues that Empedocles composed one poem instead of two. The English translation is written in verse to capture the poetic qualities of the original poem and reveals the extent of Lucretius' debt to Empedocles. The article offers a plausible and coherent account of the papyrus and has implications for different interpretations of Empedocles' system. [introduction/conclusion]

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Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In De Caelo. A confrontation with Alexander, 2005
By: Guldentops, Guy, Steel, Carlos (Ed.), Leinkauf, Thomas (Ed.)

Title	Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In De Caelo. A confrontation with Alexander
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance - Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Pages	195-212
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Guldentops, Guy
Editor(s)	Steel, Carlos , Leinkauf, Thomas
Translator(s)

In this paper, I shall try to shed some light on Simplicius’ use of the Ti maeus in his commentary on De Caelo, and particularly on the difference between his own interpretation and that of Alexander of Aphrodisias. [...] In what follows, I’ll try to detail some differences between Alexander’s and Simplicius' uses and interpretations o f the Timaeus-, in particular, I’ll focus on their arguments concerning the generation of the world, the world soul, and the immobility of the earth. Before looking at some selected pas sages, however, it is necessary to outline Simplicius’ general attitude toward Alexander of Aphrodisias and to sketch their overall interpretations of the theme of De Caelo. [Introduction, pp. 196 f.}

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Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in Translation, 2005
By: D'Ancona Costa, Cristina, Adamson, Peter (Ed.), Taylor, Richard C. (Ed.)

Title	Greek into Arabic: Neoplatonism in Translation
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2005
Published in	The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Pages	10-32
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	D'Ancona Costa, Cristina
Editor(s)	Adamson, Peter , Taylor, Richard C.
Translator(s)

In this article, the author discusses the impact of Plotinus, a philosopher of the late ancient period, on the development of philosophical thought, including the creation of falsafa and its influence on philosophy in the Middle Ages. D'Ancona Costa explores Plotinus' Platonism and his incorporation of the doctrines of other philosophers, especially Aristotle, into his teachings. She examines Plotinus' key doctrines, including his understanding of soul, intelligible reality, and the Forms, and how they influenced the development of falsafa. The article also discusses the Neoplatonic model of philosophy as a systematic discipline, covering topics from logic to theology, and how it impacted the study of philosophy in the Middle Ages. Ultimately, the article argues that an understanding of the roots of falsafa in the philosophical thought of Late Antiquity is essential for a proper understanding of the development of philosophy. [introduction/conclusion]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/QMzNadIyvj3EMp6

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Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32), 2004
By: O’Meara, Dominic J., Gannagé, Emma (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius on the Place of the Philosopher in the City (In Epictetum chap. 32)
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2004
Published in	The Greek strand in Islamic political thought. Proceedings of the conference held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 16 - 27 June 2003
Pages	89-98
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	O’Meara, Dominic J.
Editor(s)	Gannagé, Emma
Translator(s)

The purpose of this paper is to propose some discussion of a passage in which a pagan Neoplatonist philosopher of the first half of the sixth century A. D. speaks of the function of the philosopher in political and social life. The Neoplatonist is Simplicius and the passage is found in chapter 32 of his commentary on the Manual of Epictetus. The date of this commentary is uncertain, but it has been argued that Simplicius refers in it to the anti-pagan measures taken by the Emperor Justinian in 529 which put an end to the activities of the Neoplatonist school at Athens and led to the exile in Persia of the school’s head, Damascius, accompanied by his pupil Simplicius and by other philosophers. My translation, given below (II), of the passage in Simplicius’ commentary is preceded (I) by some indications concerning the context in which the passage occurs and will be followed (III) by comments on themes present in the passage. [introduction, p. 89]

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Porphyry: The first Platonist commentator on Aristotle, 2004
By: Karamanolis, George, Adamson, Peter (Ed.), Baltussen, Han (Ed.), Stone, Martin W. F. (Ed.)

Title	Porphyry: The first Platonist commentator on Aristotle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2004
Published in	Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries, Volume 1
Pages	97-120
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Karamanolis, George
Editor(s)	Adamson, Peter , Baltussen, Han , Stone, Martin W. F.
Translator(s)

In this paper I shall argue that Porphyry was the first Platonist philosopher to write commentaries on Aristotle’s works. Previous scholars have come close to maintaining such a view, but to my knowledge, this has never been expressly argued. They usually hold that Porphyry was the first of the Neoplatonists (ie. the Platonists after Plotinus) to write commentaries on Aristotle, but not the first of the entire Platonist tradition. One reason for this is that Porphyry’s estimation of Aristotle’s philosophy has not been sufficiently appreciated. In addition, I think, the particular nature of philosophical commentary, composed systematically in late antiquity by philosophers such as Alexander of Aphrodisias, Porphyry, or Iamblichus remains in need of clarification, as does its philosophical motivation. As a result, scholars have tended to credit several Platonists before Porphyry with the writing of commentaries on Aristotelian works, simply because they appear to have made various sorts of comments on one or more of his works. I will argue that these Platonists did not, however, produce commentaries of the sort that Porphyry did, which I consider to be ‘commentaries’ in the proper sense of the term. Their failure to do so, I will argue, owes to their particular shared philosophical background, one which, as I will argue, changes with Porphyry. In the first part of my paper (I) I will outline the difference between the various forms of commentary and the specific form of commentary written by Porphyry. I will claim that in the latter case the author sets out to write a commentary in order to facilitate and encourage its study and assist in its teaching. This presupposes acceptance of the views expressed by the source text and implies an assertion of its authority. The examination of the evidence concerning the Platonists before Porphyry shows that none of them can be credited with a commentary on Aristotle of the sort written by Porphyry (II). I will then try to explain why Porphyry wrote commentaries on Aristotle in the first place (III), which leads me to conjecture that he considered Aristotle’s views in the Categories (IV), the Physics (V), and on first principles (VI) compatible with those of Plato and also sufficiently philosophically valuable as to deserve serious study. I will conclude that Porphyry wrote commentaries on Aristotle because, given his interpretations of Aristotle’s views, he accepted him as an authority next to Plato, and this represented something new in the Platonic tradition (VII). [introduction, p. 97]

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L'interprétation par Simplicius de la parabole de l'escale, 2004
By: Hadot, Pierre, Hadot, Ilsetraut, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.), Hadot, Pierre (Ed.)

Title	L'interprétation par Simplicius de la parabole de l'escale
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2004
Published in	Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : l'enseignement du Manuel d'Épictète et son commentaire néoplatonicien
Pages	143-165
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hadot, Pierre , Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)	Hadot, Ilsetraut , Hadot, Pierre
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/FXRMMFTjd8Tyvbo

Le commentaire de Simplicius sur le Manuel d'Épictète, 2004
By: Hadot, Pierre, Hadot, Ilsetraut, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.), Hadot, Pierre (Ed.)

Title	Le commentaire de Simplicius sur le Manuel d'Épictète
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2004
Published in	Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : l'enseignement du Manuel d'Épictète et son commentaire néoplatonicien
Pages	47-87
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hadot, Pierre , Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)	Hadot, Ilsetraut , Hadot, Pierre
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/UgnDubNzBBssXB6

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Speculating about Diogenes, 2008
By: Laks, André, Curd, Patricia (Ed.), Graham, Daniel W. (Ed.)

Title	Speculating about Diogenes
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2008
Published in	The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
Pages	353-364
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Laks, André
Editor(s)	Curd, Patricia , Graham, Daniel W.
Translator(s)

Despite Diogenes Apollonia's popularity in the fifth century, he has been largely overlooked by histories of philosophy and is often dismissed as an eclectic thinker. The author discusses Diogenes' contributions to the history of philosophy, particularly his relationship between his noetics and teleology, and his role in promoting the doctrine of "material monism". The author also examines the reception of Diogenes' thought and the origin of his reputation as an eclectic. Finally, the author compares Theophrastus' criticism of Diogenes to Plato's criticism of Anaxagoras in the Phaedo, suggesting that Anaxagoras and Diogenes may have been more similar in their thinking than previously thought. [introduction/conclusion]

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Surface Reading and Deeper Meaning. On Aristotle reading Plato and Platonists reading Aristotle, 2013
By: Steel, Carlos, Erler, Michael (Ed.), Heßler, Jan Erik (Ed.), Blumenfelder, Benedikt (Collaborator) (Ed.)

Title	Surface Reading and Deeper Meaning. On Aristotle reading Plato and Platonists reading Aristotle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2013
Published in	Argument und literarische Form in antiker Philosophie. Akten des 3. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2010
Pages	469-494
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Steel, Carlos
Editor(s)	Erler, Michael , Heßler, Jan Erik , Blumenfelder, Benedikt (Collaborator)
Translator(s)

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The Aristotelian Commentators: A Bibliographical Guide, 2004
By: Sellars, J. T., Adamson, Peter (Ed.), Baltussen, Han (Ed.), Stone, Martin W. F. (Ed.)

Title	The Aristotelian Commentators: A Bibliographical Guide
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2004
Published in	Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries, Volume 1
Pages	239-268
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sellars, J. T.
Editor(s)	Adamson, Peter , Baltussen, Han , Stone, Martin W. F.
Translator(s)

In  what follows I offer a bibliographical guide to the ancient commentators on Aristotle, 
outlining where one may find texts, translations, studies, and more detailed bibliographies 
containing further references.* It  is designed to supplement the  existing bibliography in: 
[l] R.  Sorabji, ed., Aristotle  Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence 
(London: Duckworth, 1990), 485-524. 
The  focus  here  is  on  the  ancient  commentators, but  reference  will  also  be  made  to 
Byzantine commentators. For  a  list of  around 300 commentators on Aristotle - ancient, 
Byzantine,  Islamic,  medieval,  and  renaissance  - see  the  final  pages  of  [ 2 ]   Operum 
Aristotelis Stagiritae Philosophorum Omnium,  ed.  I Casaubon  (Lugduni,  apud 
Guillelmum Laemarium, 1590). This list is followed by  a detailed inventory of  individual 
commentaries  arranged  by  the  Aristotelian  text  upon  which  they  comment.  This  very 
useful  second list is reprinted in:  [3] Aristotelis  Opera Omnia quae  extant  Uno Volumine 
Comprehensa, ed. C. H.  Weise (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1843), 1013-18. Note also the more 
recent  list  of ancient  commentaries  by R.  Goulet  in  D P h A   1,437-41  (1993),  now 
supplemented by  M. Chase in DPhA Suppl., 113-21 (2003). [Introduction, p. 239]

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The Earliest Aristotelian Commentators, 2016
By: Gottschalk, Hans B., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)

Title	The Earliest Aristotelian Commentators
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2016
Published in	Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages	61-88
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Gottschalk, Hans B.
Editor(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

In Chapter 3, Hans Gottschalk surveys the commentators on Aristotle from the
fi rst century bc to late in the second century ad , and some of their Platonist
opponents. He gives the most space to the fi rst of them, Andronicus, persuasively rguing that he worked in Athens without going to Rome, and telling something
of Andronicus’ philosophical comments on Aristotle and of his editorial work
on Aristotle’s school writings (as opposed to his works then better known, but
now largely lost, for publication outside the school). He rightly says that
Andronicus presented Aristotle as a system. As I indicated in commenting on
Chapter 1 above, his younger contemporary in Athens, Boethus, stimulated
enormous reaction from later commentators by his detailed and idiosyncratic
interpretation of Aristotle, fragments of which they recorded. So the description
‘scholasticism’, insofar as it suggests to us something rather dry, is not a
description we should now be likely to use, especially aft er the recent discovery
of new fragments of Boethus. But Aristotle Re-Interpreted will include a
contribution on some of Boethus’ achievement and further detail on the
commentators aft er him is supplied in other recent works listed above in note 6.
Th e only big matter of controversy concerns the two words ‘critical edition’ at the
opening of Gottschalk’s chapter, which could be taken for granted in 1990. It was
challenged by Jonathan Barnes in 1997. 9 A critical edition is produced by
comparing diff erent copies of the original in order to discover more closely what
the original may have said. Barnes argued powerfully that this is not what
Andronicus did. Indeed, if he did not go to Rome to examine the manuscript
there, it is even less likely that he did. One reaction was to think that this greatly
reduced the importance of Andronicus. But a contribution in Aristotle Re-
Interpreted will take up the other editorial activity including the presentation of
Aristotle’s school writings as a system. It was far more valuable, according to this
argument, to create a coherent canon of Aristotle’s voluminous school writings,
by joining or separating pieces and arranging them in a coherent order for
reading, than to seek the original wording in a critical edition. [Sorabji: Introduction to the Second Edition, p. xii]

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The Greek manuscripts of Aristotle’s Physics, 2021
By: Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd, Arnzen, Rüdiger (Ed.)

Title	The Greek manuscripts of Aristotle’s Physics
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2021
Published in	Aristotle's >Physics< VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.), Introduction, Edition, and Glossaries, Contributor: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper
Pages	CXIII-CLXXXVII
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hasper, Pieter Sjoerd
Editor(s)	Arnzen, Rüdiger
Translator(s)

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The Life and Works of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic Sources, 2016
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)

Title	The Life and Works of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic Sources
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2016
Published in	Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Pages	295-326
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

If I am now speaking about the life and works of Simplicius again aft er having 
devoted a chapter of my book  Le problème du néoplatonisme Alexandrin  to this 
subject eight years ago, it is because in the intervening period new research has 
been conducted which seems to me capable of enriching our knowledge 
considerably  on  this  subject.  [p. 298]

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The Medieval Posterity of Simplicius’ Commentary on the Categories: Thomas Aquinas and al-Fārābī, 2008
By: Chase, Michael, Newton, Lloyd A. (Ed.)

Title	The Medieval Posterity of Simplicius’ Commentary on the Categories: Thomas Aquinas and al-Fārābī
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2008
Published in	Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories
Pages	9-29
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chase, Michael
Editor(s)	Newton, Lloyd A.
Translator(s)

Simplicius ’  commentary  on  the  Categories,  probably  written  about  538  
A.D.,1  seems  to  have  had  little  impact  on  the  Latin-speaking  world  
until March of  1266, when it was translated into Latin by William of  
Moerbeke   (c.  1215–c.  1286) [...]. Moerbeke’s translation of  Simplicius  
commentary on the Categories was used in the 13th century by Siger of  
Brabant , Henry of  Ghent , Giles of  Rome, and Godefroid  de Fontaine 
(part  of   whose  manuscript  is  now  the  ms.  latin  16080  of   the  Paris  
Bibliothèque  Nationale).  Duns  Scotus   refers  to  it  frequently  as  an  
authoritative work, and it is cited by Jean Quidort , Peter of  Auvergne , 
Jacques de Thérines , Durand de St. Pourçain , Thomas of  Strasbourg , 
Thomas Sutton , and James of  Viterbo . The work continued to be cited 
throughout the 14th century, by such authors as Siger of  Courtrai  and 
the anonymous author of  the ms. Erfurt, Amplon. F. 135. [pp. 9-11]

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The Neoplatonic Commentators of Aristotle on the Origins of Language: A New “Tower of Babel”?, 2019
By: Chriti, Maria, Golitsis, Pantelis (Ed.), Ierodiakonou, Katerina (Ed.)

Title	The Neoplatonic Commentators of Aristotle on the Origins of Language: A New “Tower of Babel”?
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2019
Published in	Aristotle and His Commentators. Studies in Memory of Paraskevi Kotzia
Pages	95-106
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chriti, Maria
Editor(s)	Golitsis, Pantelis , Ierodiakonou, Katerina
Translator(s)

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the obligatory and negative character which is credited to the emergence of human language by some Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle, namely Ammonius of Hermeias, Simplicius and Philoponus. Since the emergence of language is treated by these thinkers as being a result of the “fall”of the soul from the Neoplatonic One, I begin with a brief introduction to the Platonic and Neoplatonic theory of the soul’s separation from the world of the intelligibles and its residual innate knowledge. The second part of my contribution deals with the semantic terms and Neoplatonic principles that Ammonius, Simplicius and Philoponus deploy as they discuss the stimulation of the fallen soul’s content with the help of language, laying stress on the urgent and compulsory presence of vocal sounds in contrast to the non-linguistic communication that prevailed before the soul’s embodiment. In the third part, I explore the concept of ‘diversity’in human language as a consequence of the very emergence of language. Finally, I attempt to explain how the conventionality and diversity of human linguistic communication, abundantly contrasted by these Neoplatonists with the lost unitary status of the soul, came to be viewed by them as symptoms of ‘decay’and ‘obligation’. [author's abstract]

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The Soul never thinks withous a Phantasm: How platonic commentators interpret a controversal aristotelian Thesis, 2018
By: Steel, C., Strobel, Benedikt (Ed.)

Title	The Soul never thinks withous a Phantasm: How platonic commentators interpret a controversal aristotelian Thesis
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2018
Published in	Die Kunst der philosophischen Exegese bei den spätanitken Platon- und Aristoteles Kommentatoren. Akten der 15. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 4. bis 6. Oktober 2012 in Trier
Pages	185-223
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Steel, C.
Editor(s)	Strobel, Benedikt
Translator(s)

There is undoubtedly a Platonic
motivation in the commentators’ refusal to accept Aristotle’s claim about the
connection of thinking with phantasms as universally valid. After all, it is even plausible that Aristotle was himself implicitly reacting against Plato’s view in Republic VI (510 C–511 C) that thinking – νόησις contrary to
διάνοια – is without images. However, even if their Platonic perspective is undeniable, the ancient commentators also have, as I hope to show, valuable
arguments to restrict Aristotle’s claim to some forms of knowledge.
In this contribution I will discuss the views of four commentators of late antiquity: Themistius, Ammonius (as reported by Philoponus), John Philoponus (in his lectures as reported by a student), and Priscian of Lydia (Pseudo-Simplicius). But before I turn to the commentators I have to recall briefly Plotinus, who was himself an intensive reader of the Aristotelian treatise On the Soul, but interpreted it in his own manner. [Introduction, pp. 187 f.]

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The Text Tradition of the 'Commentary On the Soul' Attributed to Simplicius, 2024
By: Steel, Carlos, Deckers, Daniel (Ed.), Brockmann, Christian (Ed.), Valente, Stefano (Ed.)

Title	The Text Tradition of the 'Commentary On the Soul' Attributed to Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2024
Published in	Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit
Pages	225-268
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Steel, Carlos
Editor(s)	Deckers, Daniel , Brockmann, Christian , Valente, Stefano
Translator(s)

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