Author 294
Un commentaire perpétuel de Georges Pachymère à la Physique d'Aristote, faussement attribué à Michel Psellos, 2007
By: Golitsis, Pantelis
Title Un commentaire perpétuel de Georges Pachymère à la Physique d'Aristote, faussement attribué à Michel Psellos
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Volume 100
Issue 2
Pages 637-676
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Récapitulons lessentiel des raisonnements philologiques qui nous ont permis de restituer le véritable auteur du commentaire, qui dorénavant doit être attribué à Georges Pachymère. Nous avons vu que l'ensemble de la tradition manuscrite qui attribue le commentaire à Psellos descend d'un ancêtre commun, l'Ambrosianus H 44 sup., écrit à la fin du XIVe siècle. Celui-ci remonte pourtant à un archétype, écrit vers l'an 1300 et aujourdhui perdu (l'Escori- alensis D. IV. 24), dans lequel le commentaire figurait sous le nom de Pachymère, ainsi que nous avons pu le montrer grâce au Vindobonensis phil. gr. 248 et à des témoignages du XVIe siècle. Cet archétype de l'ensemble de la tradition manuscrite du commentaire a été copié sur le Laurentianus plut. 87,5, autographe stricto sensu de Pachymère, dont il se servait pour assurer son enseignement de la Physique. [conclusion, p. 676]

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Francesco Patrizi da Cherso's Criticism of Aristotle's Logic, 2007
By: Deitz, Luc
Title Francesco Patrizi da Cherso's Criticism of Aristotle's Logic
Type Article
Language English
Date 2007
Journal Vivarum
Volume 45
Issue 1
Pages 113-124
Categories no categories
Author(s) Deitz, Luc
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Francesco Patrizi da Chersos Discussiones peripateticae (1581) are one of the most com- prehensive analyses of the whole of Aristotelian philosophy to be published before Werner Jaeger s Aristoteles . The main thrust of the argument in the Discussiones is that whatever Aristotle had said that was true was not new, and that whatever he had said that was new was not true. The article shows how Patrizi proves this with respect to the Organon , and deals with the implications for the history of ancient philosophy in general implied by his stance. [Author's abstract]

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La conservation et la transmission des textes philosophiques grecs , 2007
By: Goulet, Richard, D'Ancona Costa, Cristina (Ed.)
Mais face ä tous les facteurs materiels, sociologiques, historiques qui precarisaient la transmission de ces textes et provoquaient de siede en siede la disparition de nombre d’entre eux, il s’est trouve à tous les âges des esprits suffisamment eclaires pour en saisir la valeur et en assurer la copie ou au moins la conservation, et d’autres encore pour les traduire en diverses langues, les paraphraser, les annoter et les commenter, parfois meme s’en inspirer pour construire leur propre philosophic. Pour nous aussi qui affrontons ä notre tour de nouveaux supports, c’est peut-etre cette activite fondamentale de transmission de l’heritage antique qui restera notre plus grand titre de gloire. Nous pourrons dire ä nos successeurs, s’il s’en trouve: nous vous transmettons ce que nous avons regu, nous avons essaye d’y mettre un peu d’ordre, nous avons edite et traduit ces textes, nous avons ajoute des gloses pour expliquer ce que nos contemporains n’etaient plus en mesure de comprendre facilement, nous n’avons pas nous-memes tout compris, mais tout est bien là. [conclusion, p. 61]

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Remarque complémentaire à mon article “Dans quel lieu le néoplatonicien Simplicius a-t-il fondé son école de mathémathiques, et où a pu avoir lieu son entretien avec un manichéen?”, 2007
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut
Title Remarque complémentaire à mon article “Dans quel lieu le néoplatonicien Simplicius a-t-il fondé son école de mathémathiques, et où a pu avoir lieu son entretien avec un manichéen?”
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
Volume 1
Pages 263-269
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Concerning the book by R. Arnzen Abū l-‘Abbās an-Nayrīzīs Exzerpte aus (Ps.-?) Simplicius’ Kommentar zu den Definitionen, Postulaten und Axiomen in Euclids Elementa I, the present paper off ers a survey of the way the late Neoplatonists used to conceive and compose their commentaries. Far from trying to be original, each commentary is largely based on the works of predecessors. [Author's abstract]

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Semence, vertu formatrice et intellect agent chez Nicolò Leoniceno entre la tradition arabo-latine et la renaissance des commentateurs grecs, 2007
By: Hiro, Harai
Title Semence, vertu formatrice et intellect agent chez Nicolò Leoniceno entre la tradition arabo-latine et la renaissance des commentateurs grecs
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal Early Science and Medicine
Volume 12
Issue 2
Pages 134-165
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hiro, Harai
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The treatise On Formative Power (Venice, 1506) of Ferrara's emblematic medical humanist, Nicolo Leoniceno (1428-1524), is the one of the first embryological monographs of the Renaissance. It shows, at the same time, the continuity of medi eval Arabo-Latin tradition and the new elements brought by Renaissance medical humanism, namely through the use of the ancient Greek commentators of Aristotle like Simplicius. Thus this treatise stands at the crossroad of these two currents. The present study analyses the range of Leoniceno's philosophical discussion, determines its exact sources and brings to light premises for the early modern development of the concept of formative force, which will end up in the theory of "plastic nature" at the heart of the Scientific Revolution. [Author’s abstract]

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From Polemic to Exegesis: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary, 2007
By: Baltussen, Han
Title From Polemic to Exegesis: The Ancient Philosophical Commentary
Type Article
Language English
Date 2007
Journal Poetics Today
Volume 28
Issue 2
Pages 247–281
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Commentary was an important vehicle for philosophical debate in late antiquity. Its antecedents lie in the rise of rational argumentation, polemical rivalry, literacy, and the canonization of texts. This essay aims to give a historical and typological outline of philosophical exegesis in antiquity, from the earliest alle­gorizing readings of Homer to the full-blown “running commentary” in the Pla­tonic tradition (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Running commentaries are mostly on authoritative thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Yet they are never mere scholarly enterprises but, rather, springboards for syncretistic clarification, elaboration, and creative interpretation. Two case studies (Galen 129-219 CE, Simplicius ca. 530 CE) will illustrate the range of exegetical tools available at the end of a long tradition in medical science and in reading Aristotle through Neoplatonic eyes, respectively.

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Die philosophischen Kommentare aus der Antike. Ein Überblick mit ausgewählten Literaturangaben, 2007
By: Perkams, Matthias
Title Die philosophischen Kommentare aus der Antike. Ein Überblick mit ausgewählten Literaturangaben
Type Article
Language German
Date 2007
Journal Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie
Volume 32
Issue 1
Pages 51-79
Categories no categories
Author(s) Perkams, Matthias
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Überblick mit Bibliographie

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Aperçu de la réception de la doctrine stoïcienne du mélange total dans le néoplatonisme après Plotin, 2007
By: Cohen, Daniel
Title Aperçu de la réception de la doctrine stoïcienne du mélange total dans le néoplatonisme après Plotin
Type Article
Language French
Date 2007
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 25
Issue 2
Pages 67-100
Categories no categories
Author(s) Cohen, Daniel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This text provides an overview of the reception of Stoic doctrine on total mixture in Neoplatonism after Plotinus. It examines the fundamental data of the physics of mixture and its role in the development of Neoplatonic philosophy. The text distinguishes between three types of mixtures in Aristotelian and Stoic physics and highlights the Stoic doctrine of total mixture as a new starting point that influenced the development of Neoplatonic metaphysics. The Stoic theory of total mixture allowed the Stoics to explain how the divine agent (Logos) is present in the material universe. The text concludes by discussing how the Stoic doctrine of total mixture was transposed to the realm of immaterial and non-corporeal realities within Neoplatonism. [introdcution/conclusion]

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Porphyry and Iamblichus on Universals and Synonymous Predication, 2007
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Title Porphyry and Iamblichus on Universals and Synonymous Predication
Type Article
Language English
Date 2007
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 18
Pages 123-140
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The article discusses Porphyry and Iamblichus' views on universals and synonymous predication, with a focus on Porphyry's interpretation of Aristotle's theory of genus and substantial predication. Porphyry presents the genus/species relation as a kind of genealogy, which is based on the Platonic theory of the hierarchy of beings. This conception of the genus/species relation is un-Aristotelian, and Porphyry's treatment of genus in the Isagoge does not refer to transcendent ante rem principles. Porphyry's views on universals and predication are based on physical entities such as bodiless immanent forms, which provide real correlates for his universal predicates. In contrast, Iamblichus offers a Platonising reading of the Aristotelian theory of substantial predication, which refers to ante rem genera and the metaphysical relation of participation. Neither Porphyry nor Iamblichus believe that an ante rem form can be predicated synonymously of corporeal individuals. [introduction/conclusion]

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Democrito e l'Accademia. Studi sulla trasmissione dell’atomismo antico da Aristotele a Simplicio, 2007
By: Gemelli Marciano, Millj Laura
Title Democrito e l'Accademia. Studi sulla trasmissione dell’atomismo antico da Aristotele a Simplicio
Type Monograph
Language Italian
Date 2007
Publication Place Berlin – New York
Publisher De Gruyter
Series Studia Praesocratica
Volume 1
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gemelli Marciano, Millj Laura
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Wie sind die antiken Atomisten zur Annahme der Atome gekommen, und wie haben sie deren Unteilbarkeit aufgefasst? Dies sind die schwierigsten Fragen in der Forschung zum antiken Atomismus, und ihnen widmet sich Laura Gemelli in der vorliegenden Studie. Sie überprüft die antike Überlieferung unter einem neuen Gesichtspunkt: nämlich ausgehend von dem Einfluss, den der akademische Atomismus und die damit verbundenen Problemstellungen und Begriffe auf die Interpretation des antiken Atomismus bei Aristoteles hatten. Diese bisher vernachlässigte Perspektive führt zur kritischen Revision allgemein akzeptierter Thesen wie der Entstehung des Atomismus aus dem Eleatismus und der Annahme des Atoms als Lösung der Aporien über die unendliche Teilbarkeit. Die von Aristoteles und von Theophrast ausgehenden Auffassungen des Atomismus werden dann in ihrer weiteren Entwicklung bis zum Neuplatonismus verfolgt. Das Buch schafft die Grundlagen für eine Neubewertung der Quellen und für eine Verschiebung der Perspektive in der Forschung zum antiken Atomismus.

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Simplicius on Aristotle Physics 1-8: General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations, 2022
By: Menn, Stephen Philip
Title Simplicius on Aristotle Physics 1-8: General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2022
Publication Place London; New York
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) Menn, Stephen Philip
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius on Categories 1a16–17 and 1b25–27: An Examination of the Interests of Ancient and Modern Commentary on the Categories, 2014
By: Almeida, Joseph
Title Simplicius on Categories 1a16–17 and 1b25–27: An Examination of the Interests of Ancient and Modern Commentary on the Categories
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal Quaestiones Disputatae
Volume 4
Issue 2
Pages 73-99
Categories no categories
Author(s) Almeida, Joseph
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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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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Simplicius on Elements and Causes in Greek Philosophy: Critical Appraisal or Philosophical Synthesis?, 2015
By: Baltussen, Han, Marmodoro, Anna (Ed.), Prince, Brian D. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius on Elements and Causes in Greek Philosophy: Critical Appraisal or Philosophical Synthesis?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2015
Published in Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Pages 111-128
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian D.
Translator(s)
Baltussen shows how Simplicius’ astoundingly ambitious
project in authoring commentaries led to the development of his own
views about creation and causal principles: Simplicius wanted to produce
nothing less than a synthesis of all previous Greek thinking, and not just a synthesis, but one that would show how all previous thinkers had been in
harmony with one another. The result is a version of Aristotle’s views, and
yet also belongs distinctively to the sixth century ce. [introduction]

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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his Commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20, 2024
By: Anna Afonasina
Title Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his Commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
Type Article
Language English
Date 2024
Journal Shagi/Steps
Volume 10
Issue 2
Pages 183-196
Categories no categories
Author(s) Anna Afonasina
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The present study attempts to show what influence a
commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding
philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary
on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
The selected passage, though small in size, is quite remarkable in
terms of content and the way Simplicius deals with it. With regard
to content, we are dealing here with one of the fundamental problematic
plots of Empedocles’ philosophy about the alternate rule of
Love and Strife. But Simplicius adds to this his own view of Empedocles’
philosophy, dictated by his desire to harmonize the views of
all the pagan philosophers and place them within a single consistent
scheme. Simplicius wanted to counterpose something to Christianity,
which was gaining in strength, and to show that all Greek
philosophy developed along a certain path and contains no internal
disagreements. On the one hand, Simplicius has preserved for us
very valuable material — fairly lengthy sections of the text of Empedocles’
poem. On the other hand, wishing to implement his program,
Simplicius chose those fragments of the poem that fit well
into it. Therefore, the question arises whether we should take into
account the context in which the fragments are quoted, or simply
extract from the general body of the commentary those fragments
of Empedocles’ poem that we need and consider them independently? [author's abstrac]

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Simplicius on Predication, 2015
By: Hauer, Mareike
Title Simplicius on Predication
Type Article
Language English
Date 2015
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 33
Issue 2
Pages 173-200
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hauer, Mareike
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper deals with Simplicius’ discussion of Aristotle’s account of predication in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories. Of particular interest is the relation between synonymous predication and essential predication. In Aristotle, as well as in Simplicius, both kinds of predication are closely connected. It has been argued in Aristotelian scholarship that, for Aristotle, synonymous predication yields essential predication. It has been equally argued that this assumption is compatible with Aristotle’s theoretical framework, but if applied to Plato, would pose a problem for Plato. Simplicius’ extensive discussion of both synonymous predication and essential predication suggests that he was aware of the deeper problem raised by the assumption that synonymous predication yields essential predication. In this paper, I will argue that Simplicius, by means of an original interpretation of the predicate, not only turns the assumption that synonymous predication yields essential predication into a supposition that is less problematic for Plato, but also creates a framework for a possible harmonization of Plato and Aristotle. [Author's abstract]

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Simplicius on Tekmeriodic Proofs, 2012
By: Harari, Orna
Title Simplicius on Tekmeriodic Proofs
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume 43
Pages 366-375
Categories no categories
Author(s) Harari, Orna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this study I examine the sole detailed evidence we have for Simplicius’ view of sign-based, i.e. tekmeriodic proofs, thereby questing the widespread assumption that he espouses Phiioponus' account of these proofs. Specifically. I argue that (1) it is more plausible to understand the signs on which Simplicius bases his tekmeriodic proofs as refutable, (2) he grounds the epistemic worth of these proofs in the evidential strength of their premises rather than in their validity, (3) unlike Phiioponus, he conceives of the argu­ment that leads to the principles of natural  philosophy, which tekmeriodic proofs are aimed to prove, as inductive, and  (4) he evaluates these proofs against Plato’s  un-hypothetical  science, hence denying natural  philosophy  the  autonomy  from  metaphysics  that  Phiioponus’  account  of tekmeriodic  proofs grants. [Author's abstract]

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Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis?, 2015
By: Baltussen, Han, Marmodoro, Anna (Ed.), Prince, Brian (Ed.)
Title Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis?
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2015
Published in Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Pages 111-128
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s) Marmodoro, Anna , Prince, Brian
Translator(s)
M y aim in this chapter is to examine Sim plicius’ technique o f com pos­
ition and how it helps structure his evaluative com m ents. Such an investi­
gation will clarify  how  his  remarkably  inclusive  selection  procedure  seeks 
to  draw  on  w hatever  sources  he  thinks  useful  for  his  purpose. [p. 111]

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Simplicius on the "Theaetetus" ("In Physica" 17,38-18,23 Diels), 2010
By: Menn, Stephen
Title Simplicius on the "Theaetetus" ("In Physica" 17,38-18,23 Diels)
Type Article
Language English
Date 2010
Journal Phronesis
Volume 55
Issue 3
Pages 255-270
Categories no categories
Author(s) Menn, Stephen
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Aristotle in Physics 1,1 says some strange-sounding things about how we come to know wholes and parts, universals and particulars. In explicating these, Simplicius distinguishes an initial rough cognition of a thing as a whole, an intermediate "cognition according to the definition and through the elements," and a final cognition of how the thing's many elements are united: only this last is ἐπιστήμη. Simplicius refers to the Theaetetus for the point about what is needed for ἐπιστήμη and the ways that cognition according to the definition and through the elements falls short. By unpacking this reference I try to recon struct Simplicius' reading of "Socrates' Dream," its place in the Theaetetus larger argument, and its harmony with other Platonic and Aristotelian texts. But this reconstruction depends on undoing some catastrophic emendations in Diels's text of Simplicius. Diels's emendations arise from his assumptions about definitions and elements, in Socrates' Dream and elsewhere, and rethinking the Simplicius passage may help us rethink those assumptions. 

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Simplicius on the Individuation of Material Substances, 2019
By: Schwark, Marina
Title Simplicius on the Individuation of Material Substances
Type Article
Language English
Date 2019
Journal Elenchos
Volume 40
Issue 2
Pages 401-429
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schwark, Marina
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In his commentary on Physics I 9, Simplicius claims that individual forms individuate matter. Given that in the same text he calls the immanent form ‘universal,’it seems reasonable to conclude that the individual forms are individual instances of one universal species–form. However, Simplicius also mentions accidental properties that are peculiar to form rather than to matter. On the basis of Simplicius’ commentaries on the Categories and on the Physics, I argue that the individuating
accidents are not part of the individual forms, but that each individual’s form coordinates the individual’s accidental features. By belonging to a certain species, the individual form sets limits as to which accidents a matter–form compound can
assume. This approach enables Simplicius to combine hylomorphism with a theory
of individuation through properties. Furthermore, in his commentary on De Caelo I 9 Simplicius explains the uniqueness of each individual’s conglomeration of properties in light of his Neoplatonic cosmology: each individual corresponds to an individual cosmic disposition that determines its characteristic features. [Author's abstract]

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