| Title | What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | A Companion to Ancient Philosophy |
| Pages | 597-622 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe |
| Editor(s) | Gill, Mary Louise , Pellegrin, Pierre |
| Translator(s) |
| Neoplatonic thought at the end of antiquity - like that of most of the schools of the Hellenistic and Roman period - has an essentially exegetical and scholastic dimension. Beginning with the classical and Hellenistic period, philosophy in Greece is inseparable from the existence of schools (private or public), often organized as places of communal life (sunousia), in which the explication of the texts of the school's founders came to be one of the main activities. The practice of exegesis of written texts supplanted the ancient practice of dialogue. It was sustained through its application to canonical texts, and was put to everyday use in the framework of courses in the explication of texts. The social reality of the school as an institution, with its hierarchy, its diadochos (i.e., the successor to the school’s founder), its structure as a conventicle in which communal life was practiced, its library, its regulation of time, and its programs organized around the reading of canonical texts, constitutes a concrete context into which we should reinsert the practice of exegesis, which is the heart of philosophical pedagogy and the matrix of doctrinal and dogmatic works. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZG5VGOBkqMQmvxd |
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| Title | Aristotle on Space, Form, and Matter ("Physics" IV:2, 209 B 17–32) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Journal | Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte |
| Volume | 48 |
| Pages | 45-63 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Fritsche, Johannes |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In Physics IV.2, Aristotle argues for private Space of a body as its form (209 b 1-6) and as its matter (209 b 6-11) to conclude that Plato maintains that χώρα, matter, and space are the same (209 b 11-17). Subsequently, he réfutés both possibilities of conceiving Space (209 b 17-28). In a paper on 209 b 6-17,1 have tried to show that his view of Plato is right.1 In this paper, I would like to show that in his réfutation of both possibilities Aristotle argues dialectically in the proper sense; that is, he does not use any assumption that is peculiar to his own theory and not shared by his Opponent. For this purpose I présent (I.) Aristotle's différent usages of (ού) χωρίζεται/χωριστός (»[not] separated/separable«) and (II.) the three différent interprétations of 209 b 22-28 in Philoponus, Simplicius, and Sorabji, and I rule out Sorabji's interprétation. Thereafter, I will give three reasons for Simplicius's interprétation. The first relates to (III.) the issue of prin ciples as the main topic of the Physics in général. Secondly, (IV.) Philoponus's interprétation of 209 b 22-28 contradicts Aristotle's own définition of Space. Thirdly, (V.) only in Simplicius's interprétation is the argument dialectically va lid. Thereafter, I will show (VI.) that the argument in Simplicius's interprétation is conclusive against Plato's reasoning in the Timaeus to finish with (VII.) some général remarks on this paper and the paper on 209 b 1-17. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/nDk2A18WGuyUJrT |
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| 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) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ktuV2BLT9ymSyUA |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.10-12’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
| Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus and Proclus, arguing that Plato's "Timaeus" gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius denies this. In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/P8NKlsIgNfIjL2l |
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| Title | Addenda Eudemea |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Journal | Leeds International Classical Studies |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltussen, Han |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This paper presents 16 fragments of the Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus (c. 350-290 BC), which were not printed in the (still) standard edition of Wehrli (1955; revised 1969), but which had been signalled in passing by De Lacy (1957) and Gottschalk (1973). The aim is to provide a text with translation and brief annotation, to be included in a future edition, and to argue that context can add to our understanding of these passages. Their importance lies in bringing greater comprehensiveness to the collection, offering at least five additional (near) quotations, and illustrating the new trend in fragment studies to contextualize fragments on several levels in order to gain further insight into their value and reception. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eI5Vl8PkHDDBXGU |
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| Title | Antike Philosophie verstehen – Understanding Ancient Philosophy |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2006 |
| Publication Place | Darmstadt |
| Publisher | Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Ackeren, Marcel van , Müller, Jörn |
| Translator(s) |
| Der mit international bekannten Fachleuten (Martha Nussbaum, Pierre Hadot, Dorothea Frede, Christoph Rapp, Terence Irwin u.a.) sehr hochkarätig besetzte Band geht das Denken der Antike von einer neuen Seite an. Die deutsch- und englischsprachigen Texte setzen an den entscheidenden Stellen an, an denen ein Verständnis scheitern kann; sie bieten Deutungsmuster für den modernen Leser und erläutern die Probleme, die beim Interpretieren der Philosophie der Antike entstehen können. Welche Textformen gibt es, welche Übersetzungsprobleme können auftreten und wie wurden uns die alten Dokumente überhaupt überliefert? Durch den internationalen Zugang und die Einbeziehung älterer Texte, die für ihre jeweiligen Bereiche Standards gesetzt haben, wird hier ein Grundlagenwerk vorgelegt, das für viele Jahre eine Rolle in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion spielen wird. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eoHoKEA5ouSKizP |
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| Title | Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | A Companion to Ancient Philosophy |
| Pages | 20-33 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mejer, Jørgen |
| Editor(s) | Gill, Mary Louise , Pellegrin, Pierre |
| Translator(s) |
| [Conclusion, p. 33]: Most of the other philosophical Lives from late antiquity are written in the context of the Platonic philosophy: Apuleius wrote a book on Plato and his philosophy in the second century ce, and a hundred years later both Porphyry and Iamblichus wrote biographies of Pythagoras, but they are all three more of value as a source to the times of their authors than as a source to the subject of their biographies. Porphyry’s life of Pythagoras was part of his Historia Philosopha, on the history of philosophy in four books up to and culminating in Plato. More important is the fact that we have biographies of some Neoplatonic philosophers written by their students: Porphyry not only collected and edited Plotinus’ writings at the end of the third century ce, he also wrote a vivid description of Plotinus’ life as he knew it from his own time with the Neoplatonic philosopher in Rome.3 Two hundred years later Marinus wrote a life of Proclus who was head of the Academy in Athens in the fifth century ce, and early in the sixth century Damascius wrote a Historia Philosopha (previously called Life of Isidorus), which covers the last couple of generations of Platonic philosophers in Athens. Since we have so many writings by the Neoplatonic philosophers themselves, the significance of these biographies is not what they have to tell us about the thoughts of these Neoplatonists, but their description of the philosophical activities in Athens. Taken together with the numerous commentaries on works of Plato and Aristotle, they offer important information about the institutional aspects of doing philosophy in late antiquity, and much remains to be done in this area.4 It is no coincidence that Simplicius and many others in this period were capable of composing commentaries that are still important both for our understanding of the texts they comment on and for our knowledge of Greek philosophy. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZH9mhKXOhPjPuB1 |
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| Title | Das Prinzip der Harmonisierung verschiedener Traditionen in den neuplatonischen Kommentaren zu Platon und Aristoteles |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | Antike Philosophie verstehen – Understanding Ancient Philosophy |
| Pages | 332-347 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Perkams, Matthias |
| Editor(s) | Ackeren, Marcel van , Müller, Jörn |
| Translator(s) |
| Das Prinzip der Harmonisierung verschiedener Traditionen in den neuplatonischen Kommentaren zu Platon und Aristoteles ist ein entscheidender Aspekt für das Verständnis der in der Spätantike und im Mittelalter entwickelten Philosophie. Philosophische Kommentare waren in dieser Zeit die vorherrschende Form der philosophischen Produktion, die jedoch ein gewisses Maß an Fachwissen voraussetzt. Die jüngste Anerkennung der Bedeutung der antiken Kommentare wurde durch das von Richard Sorabji initiierte Projekt, sie ins Englische zu übersetzen, angeregt. Das Prinzip der Harmonisierung ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis der neuplatonischen Kommentare und des Grundes, warum sie verwendet wurden, um ihre Philosophie auszudrücken. Perkams stell die Bedeutung der Harmonisierung im Neuplatonismus und demonstriert ihre Auswirkungen anhand einiger Passagen aus neuplatonischen Kommentaren zu Aristoteles' De anima. Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass die Harmonisierung sich aber als ein fruchtbarer philosophischer Ansatz erwiesen hat, der wesentlich zur Entwicklung des philosophischen Wissens beigetragen hat. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/y002Qlc31TmFhrl |
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| Title | The historiographical project of the Lyceum |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Published in | The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity |
| Pages | 117-165 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zhmud, Leonid |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| This text discusses the historiographical project of the Lyceum, a school of thought in ancient Greece. It examines the two main groups of ideas that influenced the Peripatetic historiography of science and the related ideas of the scientists regarding the nature of science. The development of mathematics into an axiomatic-deductive system determined the parameters for the history of science, with the history of science being a history of those results whose significance is acknowledged by the contemporary scientific community. However, the past is not rewritten each time science takes a step forward because of the cumulative character of scientific development, which allows for the integration of old notions into new theories. The text also notes the scarcity of sources from the classical period regarding the views of science held by mathematicians, astronomers, or natural scientists. Despite this, the scientific disciplines contemporary to Eudemus shaped the genre of the history of science. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/QGqP7j77MXrsnVB |
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| Title | The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Publication Place | Berlin – New York |
| Publisher | de Gruyter |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Zhmud, Leonid |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Chernoglazov, Alexander(Chernoglazov, Alexander) . |
| Dies ist die erste umfassende Untersuchung von Inhalt, Form und Zielen der Peripatetischen Historiographie der Naturwissenschaften. Zhmud konzentriert sich auf den Aristoteles-Schüler Eudemus von Rhodos, dessen Werk die Grundlage der Peripatetischen Historiographie der Naturwissenschaften bildet. Pluspunkte international renommierter Autor stark überarbeitete Übersetzung aus dem Russischen (zuerst Moskau 2002) innovativer Ansatz über die Wurzeln der Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Europa. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eTvlJiQzVaMRvEh |
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| Title | Simplicius, Commentaire sur la Physique d’Aristote. Livre ii, ch. 1-3. Introduction, traduction, notes et bibliographie par Alain Lernould |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | French |
| Date | 2019 |
| Publication Place | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Publisher | Presses universitaires du Septentrion |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Lernould, Alain |
| Translator(s) | Lernould, Alain(Lernould, Alain) |
Le Livre ii de la Physique d’Aristote est une « véritable introduction à la philosophie de la nature » (Mansion). Après avoir dans le chapitre 1 donné sa fameuse définition de la nature comme « principe et cause de mouvement et de repos pour la chose en laquelle elle réside à titre premier par soi et non par accident », le Stagirite dans le chapitre 2 traite de la différence entre mathématiques et physique. Le chapitre 3, qui constitue « l’exposé le plus complet de l’étiologie aristotélicienne » (Crubellier-Pellegrin), livre la doctrine des quatre causes. Les chapitres 4 à 6 portent sur le hasard et la spontanéité. Dans le chapitre 8 est défendue la thèse du finalisme dans la nature et le chapitre 9 établit la distinction entre nécessité absolue et nécessité hypothétique. Simplicius de Cilicie, le dernier philosophe de l’École néoplatonicienne d’Athènes, a rédigé son commentaire sur la Physique vers 540, après son exil temporaire chez le roi de Perse Chosroès, et le commentaire au seul Livre ii de la Phusikê Akroasis d’Aristote constitue une somme de la philosophie de la nature de l’Antiquité tardive. Il n’existe pas à ce jour de traduction française intégrale du commentaire de Simplicius à la Physique. Le présent volume contient la traduction annotée du commentaire au Livre ii, chap. 1-3, accompagnée par un résumé analytique du commentaire à Phys. ii, 1-3, la liste des modifications apportées aux texte grec établi par Diels (1882), un index des termes grecs, un index des noms anciens, une bibliographie. Il sera suivi de deux autres qui contiendront la traduction du commentaire aux, respectivement, chapitres 4-6 et 7-9 du Livre ii de la Physique. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/60RyhNLVKY30Nmk |
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| Title | Simplicius, Corollaries on place and time |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2013 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | Urmson, L., James O. , Siorvanes, Lucas |
| Translator(s) | Urmson, L., James O.(Urmson, James O.) , Siorvanes, Lucas(Siorvanes, Lucas) , |
Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/krsVTsfJi9x1Qlr |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4 |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | Huby, Pamela M. , Taylor, Christopher C. W. |
| Translator(s) | Huby, Pamela M.(Huby, Pamela M.) , Taylor, Christopher C. W.(Taylor, Christopher C. W.) , |
In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/a0LbiKzgZYicNE2 |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 1–4’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2003 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Chase, Michael |
| Translator(s) | Chase, Michael(Chase, Michael ) , |
Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/NXa0soQv5dbZ0Jy |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Categories 5-6’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2013 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Haas, Frans A. J. de , Fleet, Barrie |
| Translator(s) | Haas, Frans A. J. de(de Haas, Frans A. J.) , Fleet, Barrie(Fleet, Barrie) , |
Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's Categories. One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/eW6iLytuM3BoZAe |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.1-4’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bristol Classical Press |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry. Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth elements, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics. Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/SmNqBfzLbVSwQK3 |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.10-12’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus and Proclus, arguing that Plato's "Timaeus" gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius denies this. In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/P8NKlsIgNfIjL2l |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.2–3’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Mueller, Ian |
| Translator(s) | Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) , |
One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish. This volume contains the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on the first part of this this important work. The commentary is notable and unusual because Simplicius includes in his discussion lengthy representations of the Christian John Philoponus' criticisms of Aristotle along with his own, frequently sarcastic, responses. This is the first complete translation into a modern language of Simplicius' commentary, and is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/7tJQQxPsjADRkKW |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.3–4’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Mueller, Ian |
| Translator(s) | Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) , |
This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World. The commentary is published in two volumes: Ian Mueller's previous book in the series, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3, and this book on 1.3-4. Philoponus, the Christian, had argued that Aristotle's arguments do not succeed. For all they show to the contrary, Christianity may be right that the heavens were brought into existence by the only divine being and one moment in time, and will cease to exist at some future moment. Simplicius upholds the pagan view that the heavens are eternal and divine, and argues that their eternity is shown by their astronomical movements coupled with certain principles of Aristotle. The English translation in this volume is accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive commentary notes and a bibliography. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/4ZoI4eGVxZNSvwF |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 1.5-9’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | , Simplicius, Cilicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) | Hankinson, R. J.(Hankinson, Robert J.) , |
A discourse between Simplicius and Aristotle on whether there is more than one physical world and whether the universe exists beyond the outermost stars. Here, Simplicius tells of the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy. Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy. |
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