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The Perils of Self-Perception: Explanations of Apperception in the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle, 2005
By: Hubler, J. Noel
Title The Perils of Self-Perception: Explanations of Apperception in the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal The Review of Metaphysics
Volume 59
Issue 2
Pages 287-311
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hubler, J. Noel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle's brief consideration of self-perception engaged in an extensive discussion of the problem, offering various interpretations of apperception from the second to sixth century. The commentators modeled their explanation of self-awareness in perception on their understanding of the nature of knowledge in general and their notion of what the core meaning of truth was. [introduction]

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Where to Live the Philosophical Life in the Sixth Century? Damascius, Simplicius, and the Return from Persia, 2005
By: Watts, Edward Jay
Title Where to Live the Philosophical Life in the Sixth Century? Damascius, Simplicius, and the Return from Persia
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Volume 45
Issue 3
Pages 285-315
Categories no categories
Author(s) Watts, Edward Jay
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The closing of the Neoplatonic school in Athens by Justinian in 532 was not the end of classical philosophy, for when they returned to the Empire from Persia two years later the philosophers did not need to reconstitute the school at Harran or at any particular city in order to continue their philosophical activities. [author's abstract]

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Time, Perpetuity and Eternity in Late Antique Platonism, 2005
By: Siniossoglou, Nikētas
Title Time, Perpetuity and Eternity in Late Antique Platonism
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal KronoScope
Volume 5
Issue 2
Pages 213-235
Categories no categories
Author(s) Siniossoglou, Nikētas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper focuses on the late antique conception of time, eternity and perpetual duration and examines the relation between these concepts and Plato’s cosmology. By exploring the controversy between pagan philosophers (Proclus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Olympiodorus) and Christian writers (Aeneas of Gaza, Zacharias of Mytilene, Philoponus) in respect to the interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus, I argue that the Neoplatonic doctrine of the perpetuity (ἀïδιότης) of the world derives from a) the intellectual paradigm presupposed by the conceptual framework of late antiquity and b) the commentators’ principal concern for a coherent conception of Platonic cosmology essentially free from internal contradictions.

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Neue Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus (1995-2003). Teil II, 2004
By: Steel, Carlos, Helmig, Christoph
Title Neue Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus (1995-2003). Teil II
Type Article
Language German
Date 2004
Journal Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie
Volume 29
Pages 225-247
Categories no categories
Author(s) Steel, Carlos , Helmig, Christoph
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, in Cat., p. 1,3-3,17 Kalbfleisch: An Important Contribution to the History of the Ancient, 2004
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Simplicius, in Cat., p. 1,3-3,17 Kalbfleisch: An Important Contribution to the History of the Ancient
Type Article
Language English
Date 2004
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 147
Issue 3/4
Pages 408-420
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In the first place, the survey of the commentaries on the Categories with which Simplicius provides us, as well as the examination undertaken by J. M. Dillon of the fragments of Iamblichus’ commentaries on Plato’s dialogues, show as clearly as possible that the form of the continuous commentary was utilized by the Neoplatonists right from the start, and that it therefore was not introduced by Syrianus. Secondly, an attentive comparison between those Neoplatonic commentaries on the Categories that have come down to us proves that a genuine doctrinal continuity existed from Porphyry to Simplicius. In addition, I consider it likely that an analogous continuity with regard to the tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle also existed in the Neoplatonic commentaries on the Metaphysics, of which only that of Syrianus (partial), and that of Asclepius-Ammonius (partial) have come down to us, whereas those of Porphyry and Iamblichus are lost, but attested, and that Syrianus’ attitude, which he manifests in the introduction to his commentary on book My the Metaphysics, is therefore no more original than his use of the form of the continuous commentary. In conclusion, Syrianus was certainly a great philosopher, but, as far as the precise points dealt with in this article are concerned, he was not the innovator he has been made out to be. [conclusion, p. 419-420]

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La pensée s'exprime «grâce» à l'être (Parménide, fr. 8.35), 2004
By: Cordero, Néstor-Luis
Title La pensée s'exprime «grâce» à l'être (Parménide, fr. 8.35)
Type Article
Language French
Date 2004
Journal Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger
Volume 194
Issue 1
Pages 5-13
Categories no categories
Author(s) Cordero, Néstor-Luis
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The text discusses Parmenides' difficult philosophical ideas, particularly the enigmatic line 8.35 in his poem. The author argues for a specific interpretation of the line and responds to objections raised by P. Aubenque. Parmenides emphasizes the relationship between being and thought, with thought being possible "thanks to" or "because of" being. The author defends the use of the preposition epi + datif, which suggests a causal relationship between being and the ability to name things. Ultimately, Parmenides' philosophy stresses the importance of grounding thought and speech in what actually exists. [introduction/conclusion]

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Doppelte Entelecheia: Das Menschen­bild in “Simplikios”’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ De anima, 2003
By: Perkams, Matthias
Title Doppelte Entelecheia: Das Menschen­bild in “Simplikios”’ Kommentar zu Aristoteles’ De anima
Type Article
Language German
Date 2003
Journal Elenchos
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 57-91
Categories no categories
Author(s) Perkams, Matthias
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Einen Versuch zur systematischen Fruchtbarmachung des aristotelischen Konzeptes der entelecheia in einer neuplatomschen Seelenlehre liefert der Kommentar zu De anima, der uns unter dem Namen des Simplikios überliefert ist. Ich möchte im Fol­genden zeigen, dass der Kommentator bemüht ist, den entelecheia- Begriff in seiner systematischen Tragweite aufzunehmen und ihn auf eine Weise fruchtbar zu machen, die über eine einfache Zurückwei­sung des Konzeptes von Alexander von Aphrodisias, wie man sie beim zweifelsohne echten Simplikios findet, hinaus geht. [Introduction, p. 61]

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Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide, 2003
By: Djebbar, Ahmed
Title Quelques exemples de scholies dans la tradition arabe des "Éléments" d'Euclide
Type Article
Language French
Date 2003
Journal Revue d'histoire des sciences
Volume 56
Issue 2
Pages 293-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Djebbar, Ahmed
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?, 2003
By: Kouremenos, Theokritos
Title Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)?
Type Article
Language English
Date 2003
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 146
Issue 3/4
Pages 328-345
Categories no categories
Author(s) Kouremenos, Theokritos
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In Cael. 3.1 Aristotle argues against those who posit that all bodies are generated because they are made from, and dissolve into, planes, namely Plato and perhaps other members of the Academy who subscribed to the Timaeus physics (cf. Simplicius, In Cael. 561,8-11 [Heiberg]). ]). In his Timaeus Plato assigns to each of the traditional Empedoclean elements a regular polyhedron: the tetra- hedron or pyramid to fire, the cube to earth, the octahedron to air and the icosahedron to water... [p. 328]

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Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit, 2003
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Der philosophische Unterrichtsbetrieb in der römischen Kaiserzeit
Type Article
Language German
Date 2003
Journal Rhein. Museum
Volume 146
Issue 1
Pages 49–71
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Der Text beschreibt den Zustand des philosophischen Unterrichts während der römischen Kaiserzeit. Obwohl die bekannten Philosophenschulen in Athen nicht mehr existierten, hatten die vier philosophischen Richtungen des Hellenismus dennoch Verbreitung gefunden und wurden in privaten Schulen unterrichtet. Diese Schulen waren jedoch meist kurzlebig und hingen vom Erfolg des Lehrers ab. Philosophie wurde an den griechischen Gymnasien nicht gelehrt, stattdessen konzentrierte man sich auf Grammatik und Rhetorik. Im lateinischen Bereich führten enge Beziehungen führender Römer zu stoischen Philosophen zur Verbreitung der Lehren. Der Philosophieunterricht begann meist erst nach der Pubertät, und das Alter spielte eine wichtige Rolle bei der Seelenleitung. Das Greisenalter wurde als optimal angesehen, da der körperliche Verfall der freien Betätigung des Geistes entgegenkomme. Das Bild des philosophischen Unterrichtsbetriebes in der Kaiserzeit war somit sehr komplex. [introduction/conclusion]

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Simplikios: Wstęp do Komentarza do Encheiridionu Epikteta (wybór), 2014
By: Łapiński, Krzysztof
Title Simplikios: Wstęp do Komentarza do Encheiridionu Epikteta (wybór)
Type Article
Language Polish
Date 2014
Journal Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
Volume 40
Issue 3-4
Pages 45-49
Categories no categories
Author(s) Łapiński, Krzysztof
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The  translation  includes  an  introduction  to  the  Simplicius’  commentary 
on Epictetus’ Enchiridion. The author of the commentary explains to whom 
is  the work  of Epictetus  addressed,  what is  the scope  o f the  Enchiridion, 
the  meaning  of  the  title  and  the  literary  genre  to  which  it  belongs. 
The  supposed  audience  is  the  reader  who  wants  to  live  in  accordance 
with  reason  on  the  level  of ethical  and  political  virtues.  Such  a  reader 
ought to internalize Epictetus’ teaching and appeal to it in the challenging 
moments  of life.  The  Stoic  content  has  been  enriched with  the  Platonic 
teaching  drawn  from  Alcibiades  I   about  relationship  between  the  soul 
and the body. The first Polish translation of Simplicius’ text has been based 
on the Ilsetraut Hadot’s edition. [author's abstract]

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Sinfonia dei Presocratici. Su due παρεκβάσεις in Simplicio (in PHYS. 6.31–8.15 e 28.32–37.9), 2019
By: Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Title Sinfonia dei Presocratici. Su due παρεκβάσεις in Simplicio (in PHYS. 6.31–8.15 e 28.32–37.9)
Type Article
Language undefined
Date 2019
Journal Epekeina. International Journal of Ontology History and Critics
Volume 10
Issue 1
Pages 1-32
Categories no categories
Author(s) Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Aristotelian Commentaries and Platonism, 2014
By: Gerson, Lloyd P.
Title The Aristotelian Commentaries and Platonism
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Quaestiones Disputatae
Volume 2
Issue 4
Pages 7-23
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gerson, Lloyd P.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Authorship of the Pseudo-Simplician Neoplatonic Commentary on the De Anima, 2020
By: Gabor, Gary
Title The Authorship of the Pseudo-Simplician Neoplatonic Commentary on the De Anima
Type Article
Language English
Date 2020
Journal Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Volume 35
Issue 1
Pages 1-22
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gabor, Gary
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The traditional ascription of the Neoplatonic commentary on the De Anima to Sim­plicius has prominently been disputed by Carlos Steel and Fernand Bossier, along with J.O. Urmson and Francesco Piccolomini, among others. Citing problems with terminology, diction, cross-references, doctrine, and other features, these authors have argued that the commentary cannot have been composed by Simplicius and that Priscian of Lydia is a favored alternative. In this paper, I present some new arguments for why the traditional attribution to Simplicius is, in fact, the correct one. In particular, while addressing some of the terminological facts that have also been discussed by Christina Luna, Peter Lautner, Patricia Huby, and Philippe Vallat, among others, I offer a more secure basis for identifying the author of the De Anima commentary with Simplicius than has so far been proposed. In place of the disputes regarding terminology, which the debate has largely centered upon, I argue that certain unique and characteristic interpretive procedures, which one only finds in the undisputed Simplician works, allow us to identify the authorship of the De Anima commentary with Simplicius securely. Further, comparison of these methodological features with the extant works of Priscian rules out the possibility of his authorship of the commentary. I also provide some suggestions for resolving a few remaining issues of cross-reference between the De Anima commentary and the rest of Simplicius’s work. Finally, I conclude with some words on how that particular form of harmonization pursued by Simplicius’s contemporaries differs from both that of the De Anima commentary as well as his other works. [Author's abstract]

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The Justification and Derivation of Aristotle’s Categories in Ammonius and Simplicius, 2014
By: Gabor, Gary
Title The Justification and Derivation of Aristotle’s Categories in Ammonius and Simplicius
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Quaestiones Disputatae
Volume 4
Issue 2
Pages 99-112
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gabor, Gary
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Susanne  Bobzien  recently  described  “the  volumes  of   the  Greek  commen-tators on Aristotle’s logical works” as “monumental” but “rarely creative.”2 While to a certain degree accurate, Bobzien’s assessment obscures the occa-
sional flashes of innovation in these works. I intend to explore one example here—the question of what justification, if any, late ancient philosophers 
gave for Aristotle’s ten categories. [Introduction, p. 99]

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The Limits of Late Antiquity: Philosophy between Rome and Iran, 2002
By: Walker, Joel Thomas
Title The Limits of Late Antiquity: Philosophy between Rome and Iran
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Ancient World
Volume 33
Issue 1
Pages 45–69
Categories no categories
Author(s) Walker, Joel Thomas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Perils of Self-Perception: Explanations of Apperception in the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle, 2005
By: Hubler, J. Noel
Title The Perils of Self-Perception: Explanations of Apperception in the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal The Review of Metaphysics
Volume 59
Issue 2
Pages 287-311
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hubler, J. Noel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle's brief consideration of self-perception engaged in an extensive discussion of the problem, offering various interpretations of apperception from the second to sixth century. The commentators modeled their explanation of self-awareness in perception on their understanding of the nature of knowledge in general and their notion of what the core meaning of truth was. [introduction]

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The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research, 2005
By: Baltussen, Han
Title The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research
Type Article
Language English
Date 2005
Journal Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
Volume 6
Issue 6
Pages 1-26
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper I present a synthetic overview of recent and ongoing research in the field of doxography, that is,  the  study  of  the  nature,  transmission  and  interrelations  of  sources  for  ancient  Greek  philosophy.  The  latest revisions of the theory of Hermann Diels (Doxographi Graeci 1879) regarding the historiography ought to be known more widely, as they still influence our understanding of the Presocratics and their reception. The scholarly study on the compilations of Greek philosophical views from Hellenistic and later periods has received a major boost by the first of a projected three-volume study by Mansfeld and Runia (1997). Taking their work as a firm basis I also describe my own work in this area and how it can be related to, and fitted into, this trend by outlining how two important sources for the historiography of Greek philosophy, Theo-phrastus (4th–3rd c. BCE) and Simplicius (early 6th c. AD) stand in a special relation to each other and form an important strand in the doxographical tradition. [Author's abstract]

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The Stoic Ontology of Geometrical Limits, 2009
By: Eunyoung Ju, Anna
Title The Stoic Ontology of Geometrical Limits
Type Article
Language English
Date 2009
Journal Phronesis
Volume 54
Issue 4/5
Pages 371-389
Categories no categories
Author(s) Eunyoung Ju, Anna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Scholars have long recognised the interest of the Stoics' thought on geometrical limits, both 
as a specific topic in their physics and within the context of the school's ontological 
taxonomy. Unfortunately, insufficient textual evidence remains for us to reconstruct their 
discussion fully. The sources we do have on Stoic geometrical themes are highly polemical, 
tending to reveal a disagreement as to whether limit is to be understood as a mere concept, 
as a body or as an incorporeal. In my view, this disagreement held among the historical 
Stoics, rather than simply reflecting a doxographical divergence in transmission. This 
apparently Stoic disagreement has generated extensive debate, in which there is still no 
consensus as to a standard Stoic doctrine of limit. The evidence is thin, and little of it refers 
in detail to specific texts, especially from the school's founders. But in its overall features the 
evidence suggests that Posidonius and Cleomedes differed from their Stoic precursors on 
this topic. There are also grounds for believing that some degree of disagreement obtained 
between the early Stoics over the metaphysical status of shape. Assuming the Stoics did so 
disagree, the principal question in the scholarship on Stoic ontology is whether there were 
actually positions that might be called "standard" within Stoicism on the topic of limit. In 
attempting to answer this question, my discussion initially sets out to illuminate certain 
features of early Stoic thinking about limit, and then takes stock of the views offered by late 
Stoics, notably Posidonius and Cleomedes. Attention to Stoic arguments suggests that the 
school's founders developed two accounts of shape: on the one hand, as a thought-construct, 
and, on the other, as a body. In an attempt to resolve the crux bequeathed to them, the 
school's successors suggested that limits are incorporeal. While the authorship of this last 
notion cannot be securely identified on account of the absence of direct evidence, it may be 
traced back to Posidonius, and it went on to have subsequent influence on Stoic thinking, 
namely in Cleomedes' astronomy. [Author’s abstract]

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The notion of ἐπιτηδειότης in Simplicius' discussion of quality, 2016
By: Hauer, Mareike
Title The notion of ἐπιτηδειότης in Simplicius' discussion of quality
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 27
Pages 65-83
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hauer, Mareike
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In  this paper,  I  will  focus on  the  meaning  and  function  of epitêdeiotês in Simplicius and I will argue, based on an analysis of different passages of chapter 8 of Simplicius'  Commentary on  Aristotle’s  Categories,  that  epitêdeiotês  is  not a  mere  substitute  for the  Aristotelian  notion  of dynamis,  in  Simplicius  either. 
However,  it will  become apparent  that  Simplicius  does  not  make  any  effort to clearly distinguish  epitêdeiotês from dynamis,  an aspect that  might  have led Todd to assume that epitêdeiotês is a mere substitute for the Aristotelian notion of dynamis. The fact that Simplicius does not explicitly distinguish epitêdeiotês from dynamis  does,  however, not necessarily  imply that he does not make anydistinctions between the two notions. [Introduction, p. 67]

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