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Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul, 2021
By: Aerts, Saskia, Erler, Michael (Ed.), Heßler, Jan Erik (Ed.), Petrucci, Federico Maria (Ed.)

Title	Conflicting Authorities? Hermias and Simplicius on the Self-Moving Soul
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2021
Published in	Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition
Pages	178-200
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Aerts, Saskia
Editor(s)	Erler, Michael , Heßler, Jan Erik , Petrucci, Federico Maria
Translator(s)

The attempt to conceptualise Aristotle’s authority and to adapt it to a Platonist perspective is the framework within which the well-known Neoplatonist harmonisation of Plato and Aristotle must be set. This does not imply, however, that after Porphyry one must envisage a flat and homogeneous scenario: rather, the specific issue of how to appropriate Aristotle’s doctrine and, consequently, of how to square Plato’s and Aristotle’s authority, becomes crucial in itself in later Neoplatonism, as Saskia Aerts shows (Chapter ). As a matter of fact, the project of harmonising Aristotle and Plato and of regarding them both as authorities – albeit to different extents – also implies dealing with all those texts and doctrines which seem to sharply contradict one another, and this requires the production of exegetical strategies and ways to balance them. This clearly emerges from Hermias’ and Simplicius’ treatment of the doctrine of the self-moving soul, a core Platonic doctrine which was severely criticised by Aristotle. Aerts shows to what extent the commitment to the joint authority of both Plato and Aristotle can lead Platonists to exegetical twists and extreme harmonising strategies: moving along the broad lines of the Middle Platonist opening to several authoritative figures, by focusing on Aristotle’s role and elevating him to a very high status these authors had to produce a new ideological framework for the management of the issue of multiple authorities. [introduction]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/pMDvwO0ZOjUuYYk

Simplicius, 2020
By: Helmig, Christoph, Zalta, Edward N. (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Helmig, Christoph
Editor(s)	Zalta, Edward N.
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Simplicius of Cilicia (ca. 480–560 CE), roughly a contemporary of John Philoponus, is without doubt the most important Neoplatonic commentator on Aristotle and one of the two most influential exegetes within the Aristotelian tradition, along with Alexander of Aphrodisias (around 200 CE). Simplicius’ works are an unmatched source for the intellectual traditions that preceded him: Presocratic, Platonic, and especially the Peripatetic tradition. He is also an independent thinker in his own right, with a coherent philosophical agenda. Best known for his tendency to harmonise Plato and Aristotle, he nevertheless criticised Aristotle on several occasions and considered himself a loyal follower of Plato. Writing in an age when Christianity was the dominant religious and political view, Simplicius aimed to show that the Hellenic tradition is not only much older, but also more venerable and more coherent than the Christian tradition. Unimpressed by charges of alleged contradictions among Greek philosophers, Simplicius repeatedly proclaimed that “the ancient wisdom (palaia philosophia) remains unrefuted” (In Phys. 77.11). It is also noteworthy that, like Proclus and other Neoplatonists, Simplicius presents himself as a thinker for whom philosophy and theology form a complete unity. As has frequently been observed, Simplicius’ works, despite their scholarly outlook, have an important spiritual dimension (see §5). Simplicius’ commentaries have only recently been studied with an eye to his own philosophical views. He was long considered a mere source for Greek philosophy, and, as noted by Baltussen (2010: 714), Simplicius’ importance as a source for ancient Greek philosophy and science has long overshadowed his contributions as an independent thinker. Nineteenth-century Quellenforschung was especially interested in his Commentary on the Physics, which was edited in two volumes (Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores/quattuor posteriores, comprising almost 1500 pages) by Hermann Diels; this commentary served as the basis for Diels’ edition of the Doxographi Graeci (Greek Doxographers), which includes the main doctrines on natural philosophy according to ancient doxographical compendia. One of the aims of this entry is to emphasise that Simplicius’ writings have much more to offer than a mere doxography of his predecessors—but always bearing in mind that it is only possible to appreciate how Simplicius arranges and interprets the material at his disposal by duly attending to his Neoplatonic agenda.

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https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/simplicius/

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Simplicius on the Void, 2020
By: Nikulin, Dmitri, Horn, Christoph (Ed.), Taormina, Daniela Patrizia (Ed.), Walter, Denis (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius on the Void
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike. Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica
Pages	231-255
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Nikulin, Dmitri
Editor(s)	Horn, Christoph , Taormina, Daniela Patrizia , Walter, Denis
Translator(s)

The essay discusses the treatment of the void in Simplicius’ Commentary on the cenrtral chapters of Book 4 of Aristotle’s Physics. In a close reading and explanation of Aristotle’s arguments, which abound in subtle observations, Simplicius comes up with several original interpretations regarding the nature of the negativity attributed to the void, demonstrating the impossible consequences of its acceptance. Following Aristotle, Simplicius distinguishes two kinds of the void, that between and outside bodies, and that interspersed with bodies. Locomotion through the void as an imputed place of motion is impossible, because there is no sufficient reason either for motion in a particular direction or for rest, since the void in its negativity allows for no distinctions, and thus for no natural places. A number of absurdities also follow from the acceptance of the void as scattered in bodies. The void is therefore out of place in the cosmos ontologically, mathematically, and physically.

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Y0YJsol7CrATPFs

Les prières en prose de Simplicius, entre rhétorique et théologie, 2020
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Hoffmann, Philippe (Ed.), Timotin, Andrei (Ed.)

Title	Les prières en prose de Simplicius, entre rhétorique et théologie
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2020
Published in	Théories et practiques de la prière à la fin de l'antiquité
Pages	209-267
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s)	Hoffmann, Philippe , Timotin, Andrei
Translator(s)

Les prières en prose de Simplicius, quant à elles, appartiennent toutes à la catégorie des prières conclusives – dont le modèle est fourni par la prière à Pan à la fin du Phèdre de Platon, qui est une référence pour les prières philosophiques 158. De ce point de vue, formel, elles peuvent être rapprochées de la prière finale de la Réponse à Por- phyre (De Mysteriis) de Jamblique, ou de tel « hymne » en prose de Proclus marquant une césure importante dans la Théologie Platoni- cienne 159. Les autres prières néoplatoniciennes que nous avons citées ou évoquées sont soit des prières initiales soit des prières intervenant dans le cours même d’une œuvre. Mais la comparaison entre toutes ces prières – souvent complexes – et celles de Simplicius n’est pas illégitime et fait apparaître une indéniable parenté : Simplicius s’inscrit dans une tradition spécifiquement néoplatonicienne, où la rhéto- rique de la prière sert à l’expression d’un savoir théologique et d’une forme de piété personnelle dont le lecteur contemporain entend encore les accents. Ses prières sont tout à la fois des prières philosophiques et littéraires, des prières personnelles, des prières demandant des grâces particulières, mais aussi de véritables prières cultuelles, dans la mesure où, comme tous les professeurs néoplatoniciens, Simplicius célèbre par ses commentaires une véritable liturgie en l’honneur des dieux; et l’on a remarqué aussi l’affleurement d’une dimension théurgique que ses prières partagent avec les Hymnes de Proclus. Ces différentes catégories ne doivent pas être opposées, car elles se fondent ici dans l’unité dynamique de l’acte de parole, qui est aussi un élan de l’âme. Car si ces prières sont des textes écrits, leur vertu anagogique ne peut s’actualiser que dans la vibration sonore et les rythmes révélés par l’analyse stylistique, qui demandent à être prononcés et entendus. Le raffinement de l’écriture, ici, appelle une oralisation, et l’on se plaît à imaginer que Simplicius a pu, au moins en son privé, peut-être dans un discours « mental », prononcer ces prières et les faire résonner. Mais parce que ses prières sont l’achèvement de commentaires destinés à des « commençants » et non à des philosophes confirmés, Simplicius s’en tient à des déclarations théologiques élémentaires et s’exprime de façon beaucoup plus sobre que Jamblique ou Proclus ; son style clair et simple parvient à maîtriser la solennité qui est de règle dans des adresses aux dieux 163, mais comme ses prédécesseurs néoplatoniciens il ordonne chacune de ses prières au dieu ou aux dieux qui veillent, de façon précise, sur l’ordre de réalité visé par son enseignement. À tous ces dieux Simplicius demande un accompagnement bienveillant et une aide sur la voie d’une ἀναγωγή indissolublement scientifique et spirituelle qui dépassera la discursivité et à son terme n’aura plus besoin du langage, ni même de prière, car elle s’accomplira dans le Silence. [conclusion, pp. 264-267]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Dx9AGSwO3Yt0kcW

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What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity, 2020
By: Longo, Angela, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Manolea, Christina-Panagiota (Ed.)

Title	What Is the Principle of Movement, the Self-moved (Plato) or the Unmoved (Aristotle)? The Exegetic Strategies of Hermias of Alexandria and Simplicius in Late Antiquity
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus
Pages	115-141
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Longo, Angela
Editor(s)	Finamore, John F. , Manolea, Christina-Panagiota
Translator(s)

In this paper, I will compare Plato’s Phaedrus 245c–e with Aristotle’s Physics VIII 5. In the Phaedrus passage, Plato describes the soul as that which moves by itself and therefore is always moving (and hence is immortal), and as the principle of movement for all moving things. In the Physics chapter, Aristotle assigns the pre-eminent role to that which, among moving things, moves by itself, and makes the case for the existence of something that moves while remaining unmoved. This Aristotle regards as the prime mover of all moving things, including self-moving ones. [introduction]

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The causality of the prime mover in Simplicius, 2020
By: Ross, Alberto

Title	The causality of the prime mover in Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	Relectures néoplatoniciennes de la théologie d’Aristote
Pages	103-122
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Ross, Alberto
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/GNIHfMbbi3GaOjc

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Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29 , 2019
By: Sanchez, Liliana Carolina, Finamore, John F. (Ed.), Nejeschleba, Tomáš (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius on De Anima 407b23-408a29
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2019
Published in	Platonism and Its Legacy: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Pages	141-158
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sanchez, Liliana Carolina
Editor(s)	Finamore, John F. , Nejeschleba, Tomáš
Translator(s)

In the following lines I aim to study one of those cases in which the exegetical labour of a Neoplatonic commentator is seen as carrying a doctrinal element that entails a certain distortion of Aristotle’s thought. The case that I propose to analyze is ‘Simplicius’’ commentary on the soul-harmony theory, for the commentator runs his interpretation with the aid of certain Neoplatonic theories that are alien to Aristotle’s thought. My aim is to track how the hermeneutical device that the commentator applies to the Aristotelian text is built up from the elements provided in the text itself, how the foreign doctrine is introduced, and how this elicits a global comprehension and a philosophical appropriation of the text. In order to do so, I will first present the passage and the alien theory that is being employed by ‘Simplicius’ to perform his exegesis; then I will show how the commentator chains two passages of the text and produce an explanation for the refutation of the soul harmony theory. Finally, I will describe what kind of interpretation is produced and how it serves to explain Aristotle’s challenge in using the hylomorphic model applied to psychology. By doing this I hope that I could explain how is that the commentator feels himself authorized to introduce the alien theory, how he builds up his exegesis around a problem that he needs to solve, and consequently what is the philosophical product of such an interpretation. [introduction]

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Der Begriff der Physis im späten Neuplatonismus, 2019
By: Golitsis, Pantelis, Koch, Dietmar (Ed.), Männlein-Robert, Irmgard (Ed.), Weidtmann (Ed.)

Title	Der Begriff der Physis im späten Neuplatonismus
Type	Book Section
Language	German
Date	2019
Published in	Platon und die Physis
Pages	241-253
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)	Koch, Dietmar , Männlein-Robert, Irmgard , Weidtmann
Translator(s)

In dem Text wird die Bedeutung des Konzepts der Physis in der neuplatonischen Philosophie untersucht. Die neuplatonische Theorie der drei Hypostasen - das Eine oder Gute, der Nous oder die Vernunft und die Seele - wird erklärt, von denen alle anderen Realitäten abgeleitet werden. Die Natur wird als eine Art von Seele identifiziert, aber im Gegensatz zur vegetativen Seele ist sie eine lebensähnliche Kraft, die für die Schöpfung der Form und nicht des Lebens verantwortlich ist. [introduction]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/q6bPMpqiMy9eEBn

Simplicius and the Commentator's Task: Clarifying Exegeses and Exegetical Techniques, 2019
By: Baltussen, Han, Strobel, Benedikt (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius and the Commentator's Task: Clarifying Exegeses and Exegetical Techniques
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2019
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	159-183
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)	Strobel, Benedikt
Translator(s)

Simplicius’ exegetical strategies are explicitly and implicitly formed by what he was reading. What we still have shows him reading Aristotle and his interpreters. His isolation resulting from Justinian’s prohibition on pagan teaching activity may have contributed to the length of his expositions – which makes it plausible, therefore, that both historical and ideological reasons help to explain the size and approach of his works. In broad terms, we can characterise his method as close reading of texts, the use of multiple texts and authors, based on lemmata and an overall mixed agenda (pedagogy, philosophy, ideology). At a more detailed level we saw that he is capable of handling text variations and different manuscripts, speaks in a self-effacing way (a personal voice is rare), and uses advanced exegetical strategies (majority views important; letter vs. spirit; technical terminology). All these features justify the conclusion that his work was a synthesis of both philosophical views and their exegetical clarifications. Overall, Simplicius’ aim to annotate Aristotle’s work and preserve Greek philosophy with its exegetical tradition makes for a truly polymathic program driven by different, and sometimes competing, agendas. [conclusion, p. 180]

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/STp0MwNou2BN74m

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Simplicius, Syrianus and the Harmony of Ancient Philosophers, 2019
By: Golitsis, Pantelis, Strobel, Benedikt (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius, Syrianus and the Harmony of Ancient Philosophers
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2019
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	69-99
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)	Strobel, Benedikt
Translator(s)

This study explores the idea of harmonizing philosophical discourse, which aims to reconcile philosophical texts that contain seemingly incompatible ideas. Contrary to the assumption in scholarly literature, this discourse was not widely accepted in the philosophical Schools of Late Antiquity. The author examines the reactions of Syrianus, the Head of the Platonic School at Athens, to Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's philosophy, and how Syrianus accepted parts of Aristotle's philosophy but rejected others. The article also discusses the absence of a philosophical curriculum at the time of Simplicius' Aristotelian Commentaries, which led to his concern about the innate unity of ancient Greek philosophy being broken apart. [introduction]

Online Resources

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

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Aristoteles-Kommentare als Editionsquellen: Der Fall des Simplikios-Kommentars zur aristotelischen Schrift 'De caelo', 2024
By: Deckers, Daniel (Ed.), Brockmann, Christian (Ed.), Valente, Stefano (Ed.), Boureau, Mai-Lan

Title	Aristoteles-Kommentare als Editionsquellen: Der Fall des Simplikios-Kommentars zur aristotelischen Schrift 'De caelo'
Type	Book Section
Language	German
Date	2024
Published in	Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit
Pages	191-223
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Boureau, Mai-Lan
Editor(s)	Deckers, Daniel , Brockmann, Christian , Valente, Stefano
Translator(s)

Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/NqVyPiLS6En2pMe

Aristotelian objections and post-Aristotelian responses to Plato's elemental theory, 2012
By: Mueller, Ian, Wilberding, James (Ed.), Horn, Christoph (Ed.)

Title	Aristotelian objections and post-Aristotelian responses to Plato's elemental theory
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2012
Published in	Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature
Pages	129-146
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Mueller, Ian
Editor(s)	Wilberding, James , Horn, Christoph
Translator(s)

Aristotle and Plato advanced very different theories of the traditional four elements. Whereas Plato in his Timaeus proposes a geometrical theory of these elements, Aristotle in his On the Heavens (and On Generation and Corruption) offers a qualitative analysis and offers a series of objections to Plato’s theory. These objections provided later Platonists with the opportunity to defend Plato against and possibly harmonize him with Aristotle. This paper explores Simplicius’ responses to Aristotle one by one, paying particular attention to the brand of scientific discourse that he engages in with Proclus, and to how different commitments to harmonization affect their responses to these objections. [Author’s abstract]

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Aristotelianism as a commentary tradition, 2004
By: Fazzo, Silvia, Adamson, Peter (Ed.), Baltussen, Han (Ed.), Stone, Martin W. F. (Ed.)

Title	Aristotelianism as a commentary tradition
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2004
Published in	Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries, Volume 1
Pages	1-19
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Fazzo, Silvia
Editor(s)	Adamson, Peter , Baltussen, Han , Stone, Martin W. F.
Translator(s)

[Conclusion, p. 14]: We have seen that it was only in the twentieth century, after the two  World Wars,  that  the 
study of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca began to  come  into  its  own  as  a  field  of 
research.44 Among  the first  to  make  profitable  use  of  the  CAG  were  those  Orientalists, 
chiefly from Germany,  who  were interested  in  Greek-Arabic connections  and  translations. 
In the case of Alexander, the availability of critical editions of the texts made it possible to 
identify the Greek counterparts of many short pieces  transmitted  in  Arabic  under his  name 
but with titles different from those familiar to us.

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Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle, 2003
By: Gregory, Andrew, Sharples, Robert W. (Ed.), Sheppard, Anne D. (Ed.)

Title	Aristotle and some of his Commentators on the Timaeus’ Receptacle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2003
Published in	Ancient Approaches to Plato's Timaeus
Pages	29-47
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Gregory, Andrew
Editor(s)	Sharples, Robert W. , Sheppard, Anne D.
Translator(s)

The  nature of the receptacle,  presented at Timaeus 48e-53b, is controversial. It is unclear whether the  receptacle is supposed to be matter, or whether it is supposed to be space, or whether it is in some way both matter and space. Plato seems to intend some reform of the way in which we refer to the phenomena, but the nature of that reform is far from clear.1 Can 
the evidence of Aristotle help us here? Aristotle and some of his commentators have some interesting and significant things to say about the receptacle and its contents, more perhaps than is generally recognised. [introduction, p. 29]

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Au terme d’une tradition: Simplicius, lecteur du Phédon, 2015
By: Gavray, Marc-Antoine, Delcomminette, Sylvain (Ed.), Hoine, Pieter d’ (Ed.), Gavray, Marc-Antoine (Ed.)

Title	Au terme d’une tradition: Simplicius, lecteur du Phédon
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2015
Published in	Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo
Pages	293-310
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Editor(s)	Delcomminette, Sylvain , Hoine, Pieter d’ , Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Translator(s)

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https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/OAUIV1cw8jvq6yd

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Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme, 2009
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Bonazzi, Mauro (Ed.), Opsomer, Jan (Ed.)

Title	Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2009
Published in	The Origins of the Platonic System: Platonisms of the early empire and their philosophical contexts
Pages	89-111
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s)	Bonazzi, Mauro , Opsomer, Jan
Translator(s)

The renaissance of dogmatic Platonism and the revival of Aristotelian school treatises are characteristic features of philosophy in the 1st century BCE. Eudorus of Alexandria played an important role in both these processes, being central to constructing Pythagorean Platonism and its interaction with Aristotelianism. Eudorus had a deep knowledge of Aristotelian school treatises, including authoring a work on Aristotle's Categories. The study focuses on this part of his work, as the Categories were at the center of the Aristotelian renaissance in the first century. Eudorus' program of constructing a Platonic-Pythagorean system capable of replacing Hellenistic philosophies is visible in his work, as well as in other Pythagorean apocrypha. The author discusses the dominant position of Categories in the early history of post-Hellenistic Aristotelianism and the influence of Eudorus on the interpretation of Categories in the first century. [introduction]

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Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology, 2016
By: Rashed, Marwan, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)

Title	Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2016
Published in	Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages	103-124
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Rashed, Marwan
Editor(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

Boethus of Sidon is crucial for the tradition of commentary on Aristotle, in that he is said to have recommended the remarkable project of writing a word by word commentary on Aristotle’s Categories (exegoumenos kat’ hekasten lexin), and he did write such a commentary on Aristotle’s Categories . Th is was eventually to have a momentous infl uence on the commentary tradition, although the earliest surviving commentaries aft er him are not as thorough. In addition, Boethus, in defending Aristotle’s system, seems to have downgraded his key terms, interpreting them as belonging to the lowest available level. Th is is true of Aristotle’s form, of diff erentia, of universal, and of his fi rst fi gure of syllogism. In Chapter 2, Marwan Rashed takes up Boethus’ downgrading of form as non- substance on the basis of Aristotle’s requirement in Categories 2a11–13; 3a7–9, that a substance is a subject of predicates, and not a predicate, so not in a subject. From this, Simplicius tells us, 21 Boethus concluded that, although a compound of matter and form, like Socrates, can be a substance, and so can matter, for example the fl esh and bones of Socrates, this is not possible for the form of Socrates, his soul. His form cannot be a substance, because form, though not mentioned in Aristotle’s Categories , is said in his Physics 4.3, to be present in matter. Th is exclusion of form was to prove unacceptable more than two hundred years later to Aristotle’s greatest defender, Alexander of Aphrodisias, discussed below in Chapters 3 and 4, because in works other than the Categories, Aristotle treats soul as substance, even though it is in body as a subject (Aristotle, De Anima ( DA ) or On the Soul 2.1). Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book 7 also treats form as a good candidate for being substance, and Metaphysics 8 speaks as if a different criterion for substancehood had already been implied in Book 7 (see 7.17): the cause of a thing’s being. 22 Alexander himself corrected Boethus by holding that form is a part of the compound substance, and a part of a substance is a substance. Rashed in Chapter 2 below cites a treatise in Arabic On Diff erence , existing in two versions, which he argues come from a lost Q uestion about diff erentiae by Alexander. It insists that the diff erentia of a genus, for example rational as diff erentiating a species of animal, is substance because it is a part of a substance, apparently because the differentia (rational) is form and form is part of the genus (animal). Th e Question also criticises someone who denies this by again relying on one of the criteria in Aristotle’s Categories for substancehood (just as Boethus relied on another one in his disqualification of form from substancehood), and this is one of Rashed’s reasons for thinking that Alexander’s opponent is Boethus. Th is time, the unsatisfi ed criterion is that substances receive contrary characteristics. Alexander in the Arabic version replies that it is not diff erentiae but individual substances that have to receive contraries. [introduction]

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Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5, 2017
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Balansard, Anne (Ed.), Jaulin, Annick (Ed.)

Title	Catégories et métaphysique chez Alexandre d'Aphrodise: l'exégèse de Catégories 5
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2017
Published in	Alexandre d'Aphrodise et la métaphysique aristotéliecienne
Pages	157-179
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s)	Balansard, Anne , Jaulin, Annick
Translator(s)

This contribution by Riccardo Chiaradonna aims to reconstruct the reading of Aristotle's Categories 5 by Alexander of Aphrodisias within the context of his exegesis of the treatise. Chiaradonna argues that Alexander was responding to an older particularist or extensionalist reading of the Categories, likely developed by Boethus of Sidon, and that Alexander's interpretation retains certain aspects of Boethus' exegesis while also integrating the ontology of the Categories with that of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Chiaradonna focuses on a well-known section of Simplicius' commentary on the Categories, in which Simplicius opposes three partial interpretations of the subject (ousia) of the Categories and defends a tripartite doctrine of the subject that he attributes to Boethus and Alexander. Chiaradonna concludes that Alexander's reading of the Categories is essentialist or intensionalist, and that it aims to integrate the semantics of the treatise with his ontology of immanent natures. He argues that Alexander viewed individuals as first substances by nature rather than only for us, and that his semantic reading of the Categories is closely tied to his essentialist ontology. [introduction/conclusion]

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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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Commenting on Aristotle. From Late Antiquity to the Arab Aristotelianism, 2002
By: D'Ancona Costa, Cristina, Geerlings, Wilhelm (Ed.), Schulze, Christian (Ed.)

Title	Commenting on Aristotle. From Late Antiquity to the Arab Aristotelianism
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2002
Published in	Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter. Beiträge zu seiner Erforschung
Pages	201-251
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	D'Ancona Costa, Cristina
Editor(s)	Geerlings, Wilhelm , Schulze, Christian
Translator(s)

The paper explores the structural aspects of the Arabic-Latin reception of Aristotle's works, particularly the approach or approaches taken by Arab philosophers in transmitting Aristotelian texts to the Latin Middle Ages. The author argues that the analysis of the doctrinal contents of the Arabic Aristotle is complex and instead focuses on the movement of rise and development of the medieval genre of philosophical commentary, particularly the line by line commentary typical of Alexander of Aphrodisias. The paper discusses the history and institutional context of the medieval philosophical commentary, including the influence of scriptural exegesis, literary and rhetorical traditions, and juridical and medical literature. The paper concludes that Neoplatonism was of paramount importance in the transmission of the Aristotelian corpus both to the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages. The paper also includes a synopsis of the Greek commentaries to Aristotle's works and their mentions in the Arab bio-bibliographical sources. [introduction/conclusion]

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