| Title | Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Horn, Christoph , Wilberding, James |
| Translator(s) |
| Despite Platonism’s unquestioned claim to being one of the most influential movements in the history of philosophy, for a long time the conventional wisdom was that Platonists of late antiquity—or Neoplatonists—were so focused on other-worldly metaphysics that they simply neglected any serious study of the sensible world, which after all is ‘merely’ an image of the intelligible world, and only recently has this conventional wisdom begun to be dispelled. In fact, precisely because these thinkers did see the sensible world as an image of the intelligible world, they devoted much time and energy to understanding its inner workings. Thus we find Neoplatonists writing on embryology, physiology, meteorology, astronomy, and much else. This volume collects essays by leading international scholars in the field that shed new light on how these thinkers sought to understand and explain nature and natural phenomena. It is thematically divided into two parts, with the first part—‘The general metaphysics of Nature’—directed at the explication of central Neoplatonic metaphysical doctrines and their relation to the natural world, and the second part—’Platonic approaches to individual sciences’—showing how these same doctrines play out in individual natural sciences such as elemental physics, geography, and biology. Together these essays show that a serious examination of Neoplatonic natural philosophy has far-reaching consequences for our general understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, as well as for our evaluation of their place in the history of science. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/xHUG6gdrtjMT7K4 |
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| Title | When should a philosopher consult divination? Epictetus and Simplicius on fate and what is up to us |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought. Studies in honour of Carlos Steel |
| Pages | 325-340 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Gabor, Gary |
| Editor(s) | Hoine, Pieter d' , Van Riel, Gerd |
| Translator(s) |
| At Enchiridion § 32, Epictetus raises the question of whether, and under what conditions, one should consult the art of divination (μαντική). Epictetus’ answer, along with Simplicius’ commentary on the passage four centuries later, provides a glimpse into late antique conceptions of fate, providence, and human responsi-bility. While united in a general acceptance of divination as an authentic science, doctrinal differences between Epictetus’ Stoicism and Simplicius’ Neoplatonism lead them to interpret the philosophical significance of the practice in different ways. As determinists who believed in an all-embracing conception of fate, the Stoics believed divination could facilitate the task of the sage living in accordance with that fate.1 But how exactly it does so requires explication since the philoso-pher in Epictetus’ view does not seek the same thing from divination as most other people. What then does one gain from the art? [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/vKpFUeCtW419Tog |
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| Title | Intelligibles = Sinnliches? Simplikios' differenzierter Umgang mit Aristoteles' Parmenides-Kritik |
| Type | Article |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 155 |
| Issue | 3/4 |
| Pages | 389-412 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Drews, Friedemann |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Simplikios nimmt Parmenides sowohl vor dem potentiellen Vorwurf, er würde nicht hinreichend zwischen Intelligiblem und Sinnlichem unterscheiden, in Schutz als auch integriert er Aristoteles' Kritik im Sinne einer potentiellen Missverständnissen vor beugenden Vorsichtsmaßnahme in seine neuplatonische Parmeni des-Interpretation und weist ihr so einen berechtigten Platz zu. Simplikios' Gründe dafür erscheinen vor dem Hintergrund seines neuplatonischen Denkens plausibel. Ob seine Parmenides-Interpretation als solche dem Eleaten gerecht wird, ist eine andere Frage; zumindest würde Simplikios gegenüber einer Deutung des parmenideischen Seins-Begriffs in dem Sinne, dass „jeder Gegenstand, den wir untersuchen, existieren muß", wohl einwenden wollen, dass dies einer Reduktion von Parmenides' το έόν auf ein abstraktes Erkenntniskriterium gleichkäme, dessen eigene, nur für das νοεΐν erkennbare Seinsfülle dann aus dem Blick geraten wäre. Auch erschiene es in dieser Perspektive fraglich, warum zum Erschließen eines allgemeinen Existenz-Postulats ein Weg „fernab der Menschen" eingeschlagen werden musste oder gar eine göttliche Offenbarung des „unerschütterlichen Herzens der wohlüberzeugenden Wahrheit", von der Parmenides schreibt, nötig war. [conclusion, p. 410-411] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/jwKKP36AWW9gmTT |
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| Title | Mathematical Explanation and the Philosphy of Nature in Late Ancient Philosophy: Astronomy and the Theory of the Elements |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale |
| Volume | 23 |
| Pages | 65-106 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Opsomer, Jan |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Late ancient Platonists discuss two theories in which geometric entities explain natural phenomena : the regular polyhedra of geometric atomism and the eccentrics and epicycles of astronomy. Simplicius explicitly compares the status of the first to the hypotheses of the astronomers. The point of comparison is the fallibility of both theories, not the (lack of) reality of the entities postulated. Simplicius has strong realist commitments as far as astronomy is concerned. Syrianus and Proclus too do not consider the polyhedra as devoid of physical reality. Proclus rejects epicycles and eccentrics, but accepts the reality of material homocentric spheres, moved by their own souls. The spheres move the astral objects contained in them, which, however, add motions caused by their own souls. The epicyclical and eccntric hypotheses are useful, as they help us to understand the complex motions resulting from the interplay of spherical motions and volitional motions of the planets. Yet astral souls do not think in accordance with human theoretical constructs, but rather grasp the complex patterns of their motions directly. Our understanding of astronomy depends upon our own cognition of intelligible patterns and their mathematical images. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JRis2x4a5HVVDr4 |
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| Title | Self-motion according to Iamblichus |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Elenchos |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-290 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Opsomer, Jan |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Iamblichus' theory of self-motion has to be pieced together from various texts and passing remarks. Ever since Aristotle's critique, Plato's concept of the self-motive soul was felt to be problematic. Taking his lead from Plotinus, Iamblichus counters Aristotle's criticism by claiming that true self-motion transcends the opposition between activity and passivity. He moreover argues that it does not involve motion that is spatially extended. Hence it is non-physical. Primary self-motion is the reversion of the soul to itself, by which the soul constitutes itself, i.e. imparts life to itself. This motion is located at the level of essence or substance. The bestowal of life upon the body derives from this fundamental motion. As a result, animals are derivatively self-motive. Secondary self-motions are acts of thought in the broad sense. Contrary to the unmoved motion of intellect, the self-motion of the soul is not beyond time. This somehow fits Iamblichus' theory of the “changing self”. Iamblichus anticipates much of the later Platonic accounts of self-motion. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WLS6DSydki0wSq9 |
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| Title | What does Aristotle categorize? Semantics and the early peripatetic reading of the "Categories" |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-108 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Griffin, Michael J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| One of the more provocative mysteries of later ancient philosophy is how Porphyiy came to situate the Categories of Aristotle at the outset of the nascent Neoplatonic curriculum. After all, the Categories tends to strike modem readers as a temperamentally counter-Platonic work, in which Aristotle grants ontological priority to perceptible subjects over intelligible genera and species, and we are led to wonder how a Platonist would be motivated to encourage its use as a general introduction to philosophy. The commentary tradition has left us with several layers of evidence for Porphyry's reasoning. First, in answer to the general question "Why should a philosopher study the Categories?" we have Porphyry's assertion that the ten Aristotelian schemata of predication carve the genera of being accurately at the joints (in Cat. 58,5-59,33), that this isomorphism between kind of simple referring terms and kinds of beings facilitates human knowledge, and that the philosopher's path therefore begins from the correct inteipretation of the Categories (see for example T9-11, discussed below). Second, in response to the question 'Why is the Categories compatible with Platonism?’, we have Porphyry’s account that the Categories introduces the student to the study of referring terms, which refer primarily to perceptible beings; after we have grasped the correct application of language to perceptibles, however, we are prepared to 'ascend by analogy’ to the study of intelligibles, which is Plato’s ambit. But this pedagogical solution, while it jibes elegantly with Porphyry!s decision to bracket metaphysical questions from introductory logic {cf. Isagoge 4,10-15, with Barnes 2003 ad loc.), also suggests a tension between two layers of Porphyry’s thought about die Categories. On the one hand, we are motivated to read the treatise because its divisions ofmeaningful language exhaustively and accurately picture being; on the other hand, we acknowledge that the text has nothing to say about die most important kind of being, namely intelligible being. In other words, Porphyry’s leading argument in favour of studying the Categories (its comprehensiveness) seems like a strange bedfellow for his leading argument in favour of its compatibility with Platonism (its restrictedness); and the source of this general tension is the first puzzle that I would like to explore in this essay. [Introduction, pp. 69 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/E7XiS12GrRNsPr9 |
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| Title | Self-motion and reflection: Hermias and Proclus on the harmony of Plato and Aristotle on the soul |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature |
| Pages | 44-67 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Menn, Stephen |
| Editor(s) | Horn, Christoph , Wilberding, James |
| Translator(s) |
| A central puzzle of recent scholarship on late Neoplatonism has been to understand how what Richard Sorabji has called a ‘perfectly crazy position', the thesis of die harmony of Plato and Aristode, nonetheless ‘proved philosophically fruitful' — whereas, for instance, the same philosophers' perfectly crazy thesis of the harmony of Plato and Homer did not. In this chapter, starting from Hermias' commentary on a passage of the Phaedrus which poses a difficulty for harmonization, I hope to shed some light on what the late Neoplatonists were asserting when they asserted the harmony of Plato and Aristotle, in general or on some particular issue (here the immortality of soul); on why they were inclined to make such assertions o f harmony, and what they saw themselves as needing to do in order to defend them: and on why,in the process of defending them, they were led to conceptual clarifications which were in some cases of longstanding benefit to the conceptual stoic of philosophy. I will point to a sur prising case of such a conceptual benefit resulting from Neoplatonic interpretations of this Pimdtus passage and its parallels in the Timaeus. While my central example will be from Hermias, the themes I am interested in ate not peculiar to him, and I will also make use of other late Neoplatonic authors, especially Proclus. Hermias, and Produs, to recall, were both students of Syrianus;at one point in Hermias' commentary 'our companion Proclus' raises an aporia, and ‘the philosopher'— that is, ‘the professor — replies (92,6-10 Couvrcur), which seems to imply that the commentary in general was drawn by Hermias from Syrianus lectures. [Introduction, pp. 44 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/x0FYbwRgOdH8WM2 |
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| Title | Alexander on Physics 2.9 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-30 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Sharples, Robert W. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| I want to draw your attention today to a report of Alexander in Simplicius’s Physics commentary which, as far as I can tell, has escaped the notice of everyone, myself included - and I have rather less excuse than most, for, as we shall see, the report connects directly with issues about which I have written in other contexts. That was concerned with On coming-to-be and passing-away [hereafter GC] 2.11, with Philoponus’s commentary thereon, and with Alexander’s discussion in some of the Quaestiones\ the present paper, with Simplicius’s help, extends the discussion to Physics 2.9; Alexander’s GC commentary, and the relevant part of his Physics commentary, are lost. [Introduction, p. 19] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Uk1uUvOIUNKK2lk |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/QlpIOoX7gUxpkrf |
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| Title | Un philosophe plus poète (Simplicius, "Com. in Ar. Phys." 24, 20 / DK 12 A 9) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | Revue de Philosophie Ancienne |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Santoro, Fernando |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This paper is about the meaning and implication for Presocratics modem exegesis of a comment made by Simplicius about the vocabulary of a passage from Anaximander, which he has just quoted. Simplicius says that Anaximander wrote his sentence about nature of beings in more poetics terms: ποιητικωτέροις ούτως όνόμασιν αΰτά λέγων. In their remarks on the passage, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only drew attention to the words and thought of Anaximander, but also made us look at that simple comment, that « hiccup » of thought in Simplicius. What is it for a philosopher to speak in a more poetic way? We propose to understand that it does not imply the use of images or allégories, but a very original way of interacting and thinking in universal terms. [Author’s abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/dEERWvXS4c5YAaD |
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| Title | Neo-Platonic Modes of Concordism versus Definitions of Difference: Simplicius, Augustinus Steuco and Ralph Cudworth versus Marco Antonio Zimara and Benedictus Pererius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Published in | Laus Platonici Philosophi. Marsilio Ficino and his Influence |
| Pages | 317–342 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Blackwell, Constance |
| Editor(s) | Clucas, Stephen , Forshaw, Peter J. , Rees, Valery |
| Translator(s) |
A few years before her death, Frances Yates began her lecture to a meeting of the Society for Renaissance Studies with the emotional announcement that knowledge of the Neo-Platonic and Hermetic tra ditions had been suppressed. While some took her seriously, I was sceptical. Yet there is textual evidence that she was not wrong after all. The suppression began almost immediately among those opposed to the concordism1 of Ficino or Pico, but in this essay I will focus on reactions to this tradition in the second half of the sixteenth century. [p.317] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/xVNl98DGDop96LN |
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| Title | Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Publication Place | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Horn, Christoph , Wilberding, James |
| Translator(s) |
Despite Platonism’s unquestioned claim to being one of the most influential movements in the history of philosophy, for a long time the conventional wisdom was that Platonists of late antiquity—or Neoplatonists—were so focused on other-worldly metaphysics that they simply neglected any serious study of the sensible world, which after all is ‘merely’ an image of the intelligible world, and only recently has this conventional wisdom begun to be dispelled. In fact, precisely because these thinkers did see the sensible world as an image of the intelligible world, they devoted much time and energy to understanding its inner workings. Thus we find Neoplatonists writing on embryology, physiology, meteorology, astronomy, and much else. This volume collects essays by leading international scholars in the field that shed new light on how these thinkers sought to understand and explain nature and natural phenomena. It is thematically divided into two parts, with the first part—‘The general metaphysics of Nature’—directed at the explication of central Neoplatonic metaphysical doctrines and their relation to the natural world, and the second part—’Platonic approaches to individual sciences’—showing how these same doctrines play out in individual natural sciences such as elemental physics, geography, and biology. Together these essays show that a serious examination of Neoplatonic natural philosophy has far-reaching consequences for our general understanding of the metaphysics of Platonism, as well as for our evaluation of their place in the history of science. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/xHUG6gdrtjMT7K4 |
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| Title | Neoplatonists on the causes of vegetative life |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2015 |
| Published in | Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity |
| Pages | 171-185 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Wilberding, James |
| Editor(s) | Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian |
| Translator(s) |
In the Neoplatonism of late antiquity there was an exciting and revolution ary development in the understanding of the aetiology involved in the generation of living things, and here it will be argued that this extended all the way to the Neoplatonic understanding of the causes of vegetative life. In a way, this should come as no surprise. Hippocratics, Aristotle and Galen had all viewed the processes involved in the generation of plants as analogous to those in the generation of embryos.1 In fact, the embryo was commonly held to have the life-status of a plant, with the mother taking on the role of the earth, at least at the earliest stages of its generation.2 As a result, these thinkers saw the same causal models that govern the gener ation of embryos at work in the generation of plants. Indeed, Galen even advises those who wish to investigate the formation of embryos to begin by looking into the generation of plants, The above-mentioned analogy is certainly part of the motivation behind Galen’s counsel, but equally important is that plants are simpler, in terms of both their physiology and their psychology, and thus more perspicuous objects of study. This is what gives us ‘hope to discover among the plants [biological] adminis tration in its pure and unadulterated form’.* What is surprising is the conception of vegetative generation and life that results for Neoplatonists. For, as I shall show here, they ultimately concluded that the vegetative souls of individual plants are not self-sufficient. That is to say, the depend ence of individual plants on the earth, in terms of both their generation and their preservation, extends beyond mere nutritive needs into the psychological domain of their life activities. [pp.. 171 ff.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/fBNwO9EAEaa6zJT |
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| 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) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Bng3N52zNVgThHW |
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| Title | Nicolas, l'auteur du Sommaire de la philosophie d'Aristote : doutes sur son identité, sa datation, son origine |
| Type | Article |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Revue des Études Grecques |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-126 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Fazzo, Silvia |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The paper discusses the attribution of the compendium De Philosophia Aristotelis to Nicolaus of Damascus the general historian (fl.: end 1st c. BC). By contrast, there are reasons to believe that the work was written by a Peripatetic Nicolaus between the 3rd and the 6th century, most likely from Syria in the 4th c. AD. Among the consequences: one piece of evidence for interest in a wide range of Aristotle's works already in the 1st century BC-lst century AD is removed; the supposedly earliest evidence for Metaphysics as the title of Aristotle's work is moved to a later date; the idea that Peripatetic activity more or less ceased with Alexander, Thémistius being the only exception, is weakened by another counter-example. On the contrary, a distinctively Peripatetic culture must have been still alive in Themistius' and Nicolas' time, when special tools were produced both for teaching activity and for the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to later eras. [Author’s abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/sCFgkfu7LGnlGGN |
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| Title | Nicéphore Blemmyde lecteur du commentaire de Simplicius à la Physique d’Aristote |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2007 |
| Published in | The Libraries of the Neoplatonists. Proceedings of the Meeting of the European Science Foundation Network "Late Antiquity and Arabic Thought: Patterns in the Constitution of European Culture", Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004 under the Scientific Committee of the meeting, composed by Matthias Baltes, Michel Cacouros, Cristina D’Ancona, Tiziano Dorandi, Gerhard Endreß, Philippe Hoffmann, Henri Hugonnard Roche |
| Pages | 243-256 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Golitsis, Pantelis |
| Editor(s) | D'Ancona Costa, Cristina |
| Translator(s) |
This article by Pantélis Golitsis examines the work of Byzantine philosopher Nicéphore Blemmyde (1197-1272), specifically his Epitome Isagogique on Aristotle's Physics. Although not a strict commentary, Blemmyde's work draws heavily from earlier commentaries, particularly Simplicius' commentary on the Physics. Golitsis explores the relationship between Blemmyde's Epitome and Simplicius' commentary, focusing on the philosophical borrowings and the role of Blemmyde's work as an indirect source for the tradition of Simplicius' commentary. The article begins by providing background on the popularity and influence of Simplicius' commentary among Byzantine scholars before delving into the specifics of Blemmyde's Epitome. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/HwKpWeNIDWBU0KA |
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| Title | Note sulla chiusura della Scuola neoplatonica di Atene |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Italian |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Schede Medievali |
| Volume | 42 |
| Pages | 53-95 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Napoli, Valerio |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/cmv1vllUEmRfYfx |
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| Title | OMOΣE XΩΡEIN: Simplicius, Corollarium de loco 601.26–8 (Diels) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Journal | Classical Quarterly |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 722-730 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Gregoric, Pavel , Helmig, Christoph |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The upshot of this article is that the treatment of the phrase ὁμόσε χωρεῖν in LSJ can be supplemented as far as later (Neoplatonic) authors are concerned. We have seen that the translation ‘to come to issue’ for the metaphorical meaning of the phrase is ambiguous and needs to be qualified according to the context. While the expression usually betrays an adversative connotation – to counter or refute an argument – later (Neoplatonic) authors also used it in a more neutral sense (‘to come to grips with an argument’). More to the point, the phrase can also have a concessive connotation, implying a concession or acceptance. It is precisely this latter connotation that we find in Simplicius’ Corollary on Place 601.26–8. [conclusion, p. 730] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/NUEoM1d6g4gWxsi |
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| Title | On Activity and Passivity in Perception: Aristotle, Philoponus, and Pseudo-Simplicius |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Published in | Active Perception in the History of Philosophy From Plato to Modern Philosophy |
| Pages | 55-78 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Tuominen, Miira |
| Editor(s) | Silva, José Filipe |
| Translator(s) |
Ancient and late ancient theories of perception are often described by a generalisation according to which Aristotle held a passive theory whereas Plato, the Platonists and the Neoplatonists supposed perception to be something active. I shall argue that, despite this general difference, there are important points of convergence in the theories of Aristotle and his Neoplatonic commentators. First, the notion of activity is important for Aristotle’s theory as well. Perception not only is an activity (energeia) for Aristotle. It is a perfect activity, the perfection of which is the activity itself and is thus not dependent on an external product. Further, the reception of forms without matter is by no means an exhaustive description of perceptual cognition in Aristotle. The sensitive soul is also capable of memory, imagination, and non-universal generalisation Aristotle calls ‘experience’. Human beings who have reason also make perceptual judgments that, however, are not identified with perceptions in Aristotle’s theory. While the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle’s De anima modified his theory in several ways and underlined the activity of the soul, I contend that they also maintained some of Aristotle’s core assumptions. By contrast to Aristotle, they identified perception with rational perceptual judgments. However, I argue that they still retained the assumption that there also is sensation of external objects but ascribed this to the sense organism rather than the sensitive soul. The point is rather clear in Pseudo-Simplicius and I also argue that it is likely that Philoponus maintained a similar view. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/8hnpXzad7gCFriC |
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| 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) | |
| Translator(s) |
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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/taxGjWx0J8xhRkr |
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