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On Simplicius’ Life and Works: A Response to Hadot, 2015
By: Golitsis, Pantelis
Title On Simplicius’ Life and Works: A Response to Hadot
Type Article
Language English
Date 2015
Journal Aestimatio
Volume 12
Pages 56-82
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)
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This text is a response to Ilsetraut Hadot's book, "Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contem¬poraines. Un bilan critique," which provides a critical overview of scholarly research on the Neoplatonist Simplicius. The author critiques Hadot's approach, arguing that her use of the Neoplatonic curriculum and medieval testimonies is an unsafe guide for assessing Simplicius' life and works. The article concludes by thanking Hadot for her previous work on Simplicius and acknowledging the value of her contributions to the field. [introduction/conclusion]

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Review of: I. Hadot, Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines, 2015
By: Chemi, Germana
Title Review of: I. Hadot, Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines
Type Article
Language French
Date 2015
Journal Studia graeco-arabica
Volume 5
Pages 385-388
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chemi, Germana
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The book reviewed in this text is I. Hadot's "Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines. Un bilan critique", which presents a comprehensive evaluation of contemporary research on the life and work of the Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius, as well as his reception in the Arab world. The book consists of three sections that respectively cover Simplicius's biography, his preserved works, and his lost works. The volume offers a rich panorama of Simplicius's studies and analyzes them to provide a complete status quaestionis on the author. The book, however, does not consider two crucial works of Simplicius: the commentaries on Physics and De Caelo, which limits its usefulness. The presentation of Simplicius's intellectual biography centers on the hypothesis that he settled in the city of Ḥarrān after leaving the court of the king Chosroes I, which the author supports with some evidence but does not provide any new conclusive arguments. [introduction/conclusion]

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Simplicius et l'Infini, 2014
By: Soulier, Philippe
Title Simplicius et l'Infini
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 2014
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Les Belles Lettres
Series Anagoge
Categories no categories
Author(s) Soulier, Philippe
Editor(s)
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Review of Steel 2013: 'Simplicius’: On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6–13, 2014
By: Van Dusen, David
Title Review of Steel 2013: 'Simplicius’: On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6–13
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal The Classical Review
Volume 64
Issue 2
Pages 436-437
Categories no categories
Author(s) Van Dusen, David
Editor(s)
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La postérité arabe du commentaire de Simplicius sur les Catégories d’après le Fihrist d’Ibn al-Nadīm, 2014
By: Vallat, Philippe, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.)
Title La postérité arabe du commentaire de Simplicius sur les Catégories d’après le Fihrist d’Ibn al-Nadīm
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2014
Published in Le néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines. Un Bilan critique
Pages 240-264
Categories no categories
Author(s) Vallat, Philippe
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s)

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ΚΑΛΛΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΕΤΗ. Bellezza e virtù. Studi in onore die Maria Barbanti, 2014
By: Cardullo, R. Loredana (Ed.), Iozzia, Daniele (Ed.)
Title ΚΑΛΛΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΕΤΗ. Bellezza e virtù. Studi in onore die Maria Barbanti
Type Edited Book
Language Italian
Date 2014
Publication Place Acireale - Rom
Publisher Bonanno
Series Analecta humanitatis. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università degli Studi di Catania diretta da Santo Di Nuovo
Volume 29
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Cardullo, R. Loredana , Iozzia, Daniele
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What is up to us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy, 2014
By: Destrée, Pierre (Ed.), Zingano, Marco (Ed.)
Title What is up to us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2014
Publication Place Sankt Augustin
Publisher Academia Verlag
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Destrée, Pierre , Zingano, Marco
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De l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge. Études de logique aristotélicienne et de philosophie grecque, syriaque, arabe et latine offertes à Henri Hugonnard-Roche, 2014
By: Coda, Elisa (Ed.), Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia (Ed.)
Title De l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge. Études de logique aristotélicienne et de philosophie grecque, syriaque, arabe et latine offertes à Henri Hugonnard-Roche
Type Edited Book
Language French
Date 2014
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Vrin
Series Études musulmanes
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Coda, Elisa , Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia
Translator(s)
La circulation du savoir philosophique à travers les traductions du grec au syriaque, du grec à l’arabe, du syriaque à l’arabe, de l’arabe au latin forme, depuis un siècle et plus de recherches savantes, un domaine scientifique à part entière. Ce volume réunit des spécialistes des disciplines du domaine voulant rendre hommage à un collègue dont l’activité a ouvert une voie, Henri Hugonnard-Roche. Spécialiste de la transmission du grec au syriaque de la logique aristotélicienne, Henri Hugonnard-Roche a montré par ses recherches la continuité entre la philosophie de l’Antiquité tardive et la pensée des chrétiens de langue syriaque d’un côté, des savants musulmans écrivant en arabe, de l’autre. Réunis souvent par ce que Werner Jaeger avait autrefois désigné comme « la portée œcuménique de l’Antiquité classique », des musulmans et des chrétiens faisant partie d’un cercle philosophique se penchaient, dans la ville de Bagdad au Xe siècle, sur le texte d’Aristote. Leur « Aristote » était souvent celui de l’Antiquité tardive : l’Aristote de l’école néoplatonicienne d’Alexandrie que les intellectuels de la Syrie chrétienne avaient déjà rencontré quelque quatre siècles auparavant et qu’ils avaient traduit, en même temps que Galien, et parfois commenté. Des noms presque inconnus comme celui de Sergius de Resh’ayna (mort en 536) commencent dans nos manuels à en côtoyer d’autres bien plus connus, comme celui de Boèce, grâce aux recherches de Henri Hugonnard-Roche. Ce volume, par la variété des langues qui s’y entremêlent, des traditions de pensée qu’il fait fusionner, par l’acribie des contributions et le caractère novateur des éditions de textes et des études ponctuelles qu’il contient, témoigne du rayonnement international du savant auquel il est offert, et de l’effervescence du domaine de recherche auquel il a si grandement contribué. [Author's abstract]

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Oracles Chaldaïques: fragments et philosophie, 2014
By: Lecerf, Adrien (Ed.), Saudelli, Lucia (Ed.), Seng, Helmut (Ed.)
Title Oracles Chaldaïques: fragments et philosophie
Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 2014
Publication Place Heidelberg
Publisher Winter
Series Bibliotheca Chaldaica
Volume 4
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Lecerf, Adrien , Saudelli, Lucia , Seng, Helmut
Translator(s)

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Categories and Subcategories, 2014
By: Tegtmeier, Erwin
Title Categories and Subcategories
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Anuario Filosófico
Volume 47
Issue 2
Pages 395-411
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tegtmeier, Erwin
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Starting from the traditional distinction between the minimal and the maximal division, the role of subcategories in Aristotle, as well as that of the highest categories, is discussed. The need for categorial properties which determine categories is pointed out. It is argued that an existent cannot have two such essential properties and that only the lowest subcategories have simple categorial properties. Furthermore, it is emphasised that categories and subcategories must form a tree because they belong to a theory of categories which requires unity. By contrast, it is held that the hierarchy of all concepts need not form a tree. The difficulties Porphyrius and Simplicius find in Aristotle’s minimal and maximal division are analysed. Finally, Aristotle’s way of avoiding categorial properties by referring to an abstraction is criticised. [Author's abstract]

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How Can the Perceptible World be Perceptible? Proclus on the Causes of Perceptibility, 2017
By: Van Riel, Gerd, Roskam, Geert (Ed.), Verheyden, Joseph (Ed.)
Title How Can the Perceptible World be Perceptible? Proclus on the Causes of Perceptibility
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2017
Published in Light on Creation. Ancient Commentators in Dialogue and Debate on the Origin of the World
Pages 49-59
Categories no categories
Author(s) Van Riel, Gerd
Editor(s) Roskam, Geert , Verheyden, Joseph
Translator(s)
This article explores the problem of how perceptibility can arise in a Platonic universe where causes are always immaterial. Dualistic accounts that posit irreducible differences between the res extensa and the res cogitans fail to explain the existence of the material world, which the Neoplatonists endorse as a monistic system where every possible part of the universe is ultimately produced by the First Principle. Proclus provides a subtle answer to this problem by arguing that perceptibility is not something matter has out of itself, but is the effect of a gift of the Demiurge. The ten gifts of the Demiurge are given in the third book of Proclus' Commentary on the Timaeus, with perceptibility being the first gift that determines the lower part of the cosmos, i.e., the corporeal realm. This article argues that perceptibility is not the effect of quantity as such but of the presence of qualities in the bulk that moulds it into the four primordial elements, and it ultimately brings the sensible realm back to intelligible causes. [introduction/conclusion]

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I "Cadaveri" di Eraclito (Fr. 96 D.-K.) e la Polemica Neoplatonica di Simplicio, 2010
By: Saudelli, Lucia
Title I "Cadaveri" di Eraclito (Fr. 96 D.-K.) e la Polemica Neoplatonica di Simplicio
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2010
Journal Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica
Volume 96
Issue 3
Pages 127-137
Categories no categories
Author(s) Saudelli, Lucia
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This article focuses on an unpublished allusion to Heraclitus' fragment 96 D.-K. After an analytic study of the ancient preserved testimonia, I have presented the evidence of the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who uses Heraclitus' dictum about corpses in his personal polemic against Christianity. Then I have tried to explain the probable original signification of Heraclitus' fragment in comparison with other Presocratic texts and according to the Ionian philosophical and religious background of the 5th century B.C. [Author’s abstract]

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I commentari all'Isagoge di Porfirio tra V e VI secolo, 2010
By: Militello, Chiara
Title I commentari all'Isagoge di Porfirio tra V e VI secolo
Type Monograph
Language Italian
Date 2010
Publication Place Roma
Publisher Bonanno Editore
Series Analecta Humanitatis
Volume 18
Categories no categories
Author(s) Militello, Chiara
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Oggetto di questo volume sono i commentari all.Isagoge di Porfirio che furono redatti tra il V e il VII secolo d.C. da Ammonio, Elia, Davide, pseudo-Elia (tutti rappresentanti della Scuola di Alessandria) e Boezio (che riprese nel mondo latino la tradizione delle Scuole neoplatoniche ateniese e alessandrina). All'analisi della struttura generale dei commentari si accompagna lo studio e la contestualizzazione all'interno del complesso sviluppo della tradizione esegetica (che comprende tanto fattori di continuità quanto momenti di rottura) dei passi che, vertendo sui concetti logico-metafisici di genere, specie e individuo, esemplificano le diverse soluzioni al problema dell'armonizzazione tra aristotelismo e platonismo. [author's abstract]
Translation: The subject of this volume is the commentaries on Porphyry's Isagoge, which were written between the 5th and 7th centuries AD by Ammonius, Elias, David, pseudo-Elias (all representatives of the Alexandrian School), and Boethius (who brought the tradition of the Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonic Schools into the Latin world). Alongside the analysis of the general structure of the commentaries, the study also examines and contextualizes passages within the complex development of the exegetical tradition (which includes both factors of continuity and moments of rupture). These passages, focusing on the logical-metaphysical concepts of genus, species, and individual, illustrate various solutions to the problem of harmonizing Aristotelianism and Platonism.

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Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary, 2002
By: Finamore, John F., Dillon, John, Iamblichus
Title Iamblichus De anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place Leiden
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua
Volume 92
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F. , Dillon, John , Iamblichus
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities.
This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included as well are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise. [authors abstract]

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Iamblichus on Soul, 2014
By: Finamore, John F., Remes, Pauliina (Ed.), Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (Ed.)
Title Iamblichus on Soul
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2014
Published in The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
Pages 280-292
Categories no categories
Author(s) Finamore, John F.
Editor(s) Remes, Pauliina , Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
Translator(s)
Central to lamblichus’ philosophy is his doctrine o f the soul. The hum an soul strad­
dles two worlds (the realms o f the Intelligible and o f Nature)  and can  operate in both. 
H um an  souls descend  to  live  a  life on  earth, but their real hom e is  in  the Intelligible 
W orld o f the Forms. Through the help o f the interm ediary divinities,  hum an souls re­
ascend to the Intelligible and regain their proper abode. The hum an soul is the central 
character in this dram a, and its purification through philosophy and ritual is central to 
its eventual ascent.As  in  other  areas,  lamblichus’  philosophy  o f the  soul  had  a  large  im pact  on  later 
Neoplatonists. We are lucky enough to have large sections o f his de Anima, preserved by 
John Stobaeus. His de Mysteriis and fragments from his Platonic com m entaries also shed 
light on Iamblichean psychology, but the m ost im portant fragments are preserved by the 
author o f the com m entary to A ristotle’s de Anima, who may or may not be Simplicius,2 
and by Priscianus o f Lydia. We will consider all o f these sources as we examine lamblichus’ 
unique doctrine of the soul. [p. 280]

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Iamblichus’ Noera Theôria of Aristotle’s Categories, 2016
By: Dillon, John, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Iamblichus’ Noera Theôria of Aristotle’s Categories
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 313-326
Categories no categories
Author(s) Dillon, John
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

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Il De caelo di Aristotele e alcuni suoi commentatori: Simplicio, Averroè e Pietro d'Alvernia, 2006
By: Musatti, Cesare Alberto
Title Il De caelo di Aristotele e alcuni suoi commentatori: Simplicio, Averroè e Pietro d'Alvernia
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2006
Journal Quaestio
Volume 6
Pages 524–549
Categories no categories
Author(s) Musatti, Cesare Alberto
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Il Parmenide e il Sofista di Platone riletti da Simplicio, 2016
By: Licciardi, Ivan Adriano, Boriello, Maria (Ed.), Vitale, Angelo Maria (Ed.)
Title Il Parmenide e il Sofista di Platone riletti da Simplicio
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2016
Published in Princeps philosophorum. Platone nell’Occidente tardo-antico, medievale e umanistico
Pages 171-188
Categories no categories
Author(s) Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Editor(s) Boriello, Maria , Vitale, Angelo Maria
Translator(s)

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Il male come "privazione". Simplicio e Filopono in difesa della materia, 2017
By: Cardullo, R. Loredana
Title Il male come "privazione". Simplicio e Filopono in difesa della materia
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2017
Journal PEITHO / EXAMINA ANTIQUA
Volume 1
Issue 8
Pages 391-408
Categories no categories
Author(s) Cardullo, R. Loredana
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The aim of this paper is to highlight the decisive contribution of Simplicius and Philoponus to the resolution of the problem of evil in Neoplatonism. A correct and faithful interpretation of the problem, which also had to agree with Plato’s texts, became particularly needed after Plotinus had identified evil with matter, threatening, thus, the dualistic position, which was absent in Plato. The first rectification was made by Proclus with the notion of parhypostasis, i.e., “parasitic” or “collateral” existence, which de-hypostasized evil, while at the same time challenging the Plotinian theory that turned evil into a principle that was ontologically opposed to good. In light of this, the last Neoplatonic exegetes, Simplicius and Philoponus, definitely clarified the “privative” role of kakon, finally relieving matter from the negative meaning given to it by Plotinus and restoring metaphysical monism. [Author's abstract]

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In defence of geometric atomism: Explaining elemental properties, 2012
By: Opsomer, Jan, Wilberding, James (Ed.), Horn, Christoph (Ed.)
Title In defence of geometric atomism: Explaining elemental properties
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2012
Published in Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature
Pages 147-173
Categories no categories
Author(s) Opsomer, Jan
Editor(s) Wilberding, James , Horn, Christoph
Translator(s)
Plato introduces what is nowadays called geometric atomism in his  Timaeus—more 
precisely, in the second part of the physical account where he examines the cosmos 
under the aspect of what he calls  ‘necessity’. This resurfaces again in the final part, 
which is devoted to what comes about from the cooperation of reason and necessity, 
where  he  regularly invokes the  triangles and polyhedra in order to explain various 
biochemical processes of the human body. The introduction of geometric atomism is 
preceded by the  infamously  obscure description of the receptacle. This mysterious 
entity is presented as that in  which  qualities and shapes appear but also appears to 
provide the stuff out of which things are made.1 I will not here enter into the debates 
about what the receptacle is supposed to be; it suffices to note that the text in some 
passages may suggest to readers familiar with the later conception of matter that matter 
is exactly what Plato means. Since this is certainly what Aristotle1 2 and in his wake all 
ancient commentators took it to be, we need not for our present purposes consider 
other readings. [Introduction, p. 147]

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