| Title | Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance - Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | Leuven |
| Publisher | Leuven University Press |
| Series | Ancient and Medieval Philosophy de Wulf-Mansion Centre, Series 1 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Leinkauf, Thomas , Steel, Carlos |
| Translator(s) |
| The particular focus of this volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance. In each period, the Timaeus was read in a different context and from different perspectives. During the Middle Ages, scholars were mostly interested in reconciling the rational cosmology of the Timaeus with the Christian understanding of creation. In Late Antiquity, the concordance of Plato with Aristotle was considered the most important issue, whereas in early modern times, the confrontation with the new mathematical physics offered possibilities for a fresh assessment of Plato's explanation of the cosmos. The present volume has three sections corresponding to these three periods of interpreting the Timaeus, each sectionis introduced by a synthesis of the main issues at discussion. This 'epochal' approach gives this volume its particular character. [author's abstract] |
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| Title | Copernicus's Doctrine of Gravity and the Natural Circular Motion of the Elements |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes |
| Volume | 68 |
| Pages | 157-211 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Knox, Dilwyn |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| [Conclusion, pp. 210 f.]: The greatest debt [...] that Copernicus the cosmologist owed was not to Renaissance Platonism or a revamped Aristotelianism. It was rather to the variety of ancient learning promoted by Renaissance humanists during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. To them he owed., that is, not just the wherewithal and encouragement to consult a much wider library of classical authors than his scholastic predecessors were wont to do but also the intellectual flexibility to regard his sources as no more than that - sources for ideas rather than authorities. In this Copernicus was typical of many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'scientific' thinkers, Galileo included.282 But Renaissance humanism left its mark in another important respect. Copernicus set himself the task of learning Greek, and this provided him, if the evidence above is to be trusted, with one of his most important cosmological doctrines. |
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| Title | Movers and Shakers |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Published in | The philosopher and society in late antiquity. Essays in honour of Peter Brown |
| Pages | 19-50 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Lane Fox, Robin |
| Editor(s) | Smith, Andrew |
| Translator(s) |
| In late antiquity, as in all other periods, philosophy had the power to change a person’s choice of life and scale of values. The ‘shakers’ of my title are people who passed on this sort of impact to others. Philosophy, including Platonist philosophy, also addressed the intellectual’s relation to contemporary society. If that society was incurably misguided, then the philosopher might have no option except to leave it. In late antiquity, some took this option, and they are my ‘movers’. Both the ‘shakers’ and the ‘movers’ need to be understood in terms of the philosophy they professed, but a sufficient understanding of their actions does not require a deep analysis of their deepest thoughts. They are within a historian’s grasp, and so I will discuss individuals, their texts and contexts without a close reading of particular arguments. [Introduction, p. 19] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/f8lRlbTdYusJOvM |
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| Title | Unbeachtete Zitate und doxographische Nachrichten in der Schrift De Aeternitate Mundi des Johannes Philoponos |
| Type | Article |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 202-219 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Scholten, Clemens |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| In der Schrift de aeternitate mundi (aetm.) des Johannes Philoponos aus der Zeit bald nach 529 n. Chr. gibt es über eine Reihe von bereits näher beleuchteten Quellen und doxographischen Nachrichten hinaus eine größere Anzahl von bisher unbeachteten doxographischen Materialien, Paraphrasen und/oder Zitaten aus verlorenen Schriften antiker Autoren. Unter quellenkritischen und doxographischen Gesichtspunkten im engeren Sinn ist aetm. noch nicht eigens untersucht worden. Das wird sicherlich damit zu tun haben, daß die Erforschung der doxographischen Überlieferung vor gut hundert Jahren ihren Schwerpunkt auf die vorplatonische Tra- dition setzte und unter diesem Gesichtspunkt aetm. offenbar ver- nachlässigen zu können glaubte, zumal H.Rabe als Herausgeber von aetm. in seinen Fußnoten die Textnachweise aus den großen Dichtern und Philosophen wie Homer, Piaton, Aristoteles, Plotin usw., soweit möglich, zuverlässig geführt hat1. Möglicherweise ist daran auch die Einschätzung des letzten Rezensenten der Rabe- schen Edition aus dem Jahre 1 90 1 nicht unbeteiligt, der aetm. für un- ergiebig im Hinblick auf verlorene Quellen hielt und meinte, aetm. habe lediglich bekanntes Material zu bieten. [p. 202] |
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| 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] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/nCytKi34b5xumf1 |
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| Title | The Perils of Self-Perception: Explanations of Apperception in the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | The Review of Metaphysics |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-311 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hubler, J. Noel |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle's brief consideration of self-perception engaged in an extensive discussion of the problem, offering various interpretations of apperception from the second to sixth century. The commentators modeled their explanation of self-awareness in perception on their understanding of the nature of knowledge in general and their notion of what the core meaning of truth was. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Ef2ZHle0heSuknh |
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| Title | Empedocles' Physica Book I: A New Reconstruction |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Published in | The Empedoclean Kosmos. Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity |
| Pages | 93-137 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Janko, Richard |
| Editor(s) | Pierrēs, Apostolos L. |
| Translator(s) |
| The article discusses the significance of the discovery of papyrus fragments from Empedocles' Physics in Strasbourg, the first time a text from a known Presocratic philosopher has been found in a papyrus. Despite being a disappointment due to the overlapping content with the longest extant fragment of Physics Book I, the author offers a new solution to the puzzles presented by the papyrus. By reconstructing a passage from Empedocles' Physics 131 verses long, the author reveals a more coherent and less bizarre philosophical system and argues that Empedocles composed one poem instead of two. The English translation is written in verse to capture the poetic qualities of the original poem and reveals the extent of Lucretius' debt to Empedocles. The article offers a plausible and coherent account of the papyrus and has implications for different interpretations of Empedocles' system. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/GzaT1eGaIx8c0eP |
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| Title | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘On the Heavens 2.10–14’ |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Publication Place | London |
| Publisher | Duckworth |
| Series | Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | Mueller, Ian |
| Translator(s) | Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) , |
| Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The topics covered in this part of Simplicius' commentary are: the speeds and distances of the stars; that the stars are spherical; why the sun and moon have fewer motions than the other five planets; why the sphere of the fixed stars contains so many stars whereas the other heavenly spheres contain no more than one (Simplicius has a long excursus on planetary theory in his commentary on this chapter); discussion of people's views on the position, motion or rest, shape, and size of the earth; that the earth is a relatively small sphere at rest in the centre of the cosmos. [offical abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/xfBZJ9BSZVumD7u |
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| Title | Where to Live the Philosophical Life in the Sixth Century? Damascius, Simplicius, and the Return from Persia |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-315 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Watts, Edward Jay |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The closing of the Neoplatonic school in Athens by Justinian in 532 was not the end of classical philosophy, for when they returned to the Empire from Persia two years later the philosophers did not need to reconstitute the school at Harran or at any particular city in order to continue their philosophical activities. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/qb6W6lKeoD2R4gl |
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| Title | Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In De Caelo. A confrontation with Alexander |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Published in | Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance - Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| Pages | 195-212 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Guldentops, Guy |
| Editor(s) | Steel, Carlos , Leinkauf, Thomas |
| Translator(s) |
| In this paper, I shall try to shed some light on Simplicius’ use of the Ti maeus in his commentary on De Caelo, and particularly on the difference between his own interpretation and that of Alexander of Aphrodisias. [...] In what follows, I’ll try to detail some differences between Alexander’s and Simplicius' uses and interpretations o f the Timaeus-, in particular, I’ll focus on their arguments concerning the generation of the world, the world soul, and the immobility of the earth. Before looking at some selected pas sages, however, it is necessary to outline Simplicius’ general attitude toward Alexander of Aphrodisias and to sketch their overall interpretations of the theme of De Caelo. [Introduction, pp. 196 f.} |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ncq9xBafvNWKjKN |
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| Title | Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle, De Caelo 2.10-12: An Annotated Translation, Part 2 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | SCIAMVS: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 25-131 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Bowen, Alan C. , Simplicius |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
This completes my translation of the narrowly astronomical sections of Simplicius’ com- mentary on Aristotle’s De caelo that first appeared in SCIAMVS 4 (2003) 23–58. Its aim, as before, is to supply the reader with a suitably annotated rendering of Simplicius’ text that will facilitate addressing the critical questions of the nature, construction, and historical value of Simplicius’ commentary, especially as it bears on the history of earlier Greek astronomical theorizing. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/2UHM1mtpgYGOwNe |
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| Title | Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2016 |
| Published in | Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators |
| Pages | 531–540 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hoffmann, Philippe , Golitsis, Pantelis |
| Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
| Translator(s) |
Simplicius’ Corollary on Place (Corollarium de loco) is not a doxographic text but a strictly Neoplatonic philosophical work, with its own philosophical method. It takes the form of a digression interrupting the continuity of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics (itself a written work intended for readers, hoi entugkhanontes, hoi enteuxomenoi), and its literary genre is that of a monograph treatise using dialectic and exegesis as its principal methods. The dialectical method consists in discussing the opinions of Simplicius’ predecessors, ancient and modern, mainly Aristotle and Proclus, to pave the way for the exposition of the truth, following the method inaugurated by Aristotle in the Topics and still very much alive. It also proceeds by puzzles and solutions (aporiai kai luseis). Th e exegetic method reappears even within a digression which breaks with the continuous commentary and Simplicius devotes sometimes long passages to quoting and commenting on texts from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Proclus, and Damascius, but also from the Chaldaean Oracles, Iamblichus, or Syrianus. Throughout this piece Simplicius maintains complete control over his material which includes the art of rhetoric, dialectical technique, and his philosophic intention. In it, he replaces the Aristotelian defi nition of place (‘the first unmoved boundary of the surrounding body’ (to tou periekhontos peras akinêton prôton), Phys . 4.4, 212a20–1) with a new defi nition taken from his master Damascius (place is the measure of the intrinsic positioning (metron tês theseôs) of the parts of a body, and of its right position in a greater surrounding whole), and he departs from Aristotle’s thought with a radical innovation which progressively works its way in. [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bi4wQSMQigT8oIm |
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It takes the form of a digression interrupting the continuity of Simplicius\u2019 commentary on Aristotle\u2019s Physics (itself a written work intended for readers, hoi entugkhanontes, hoi enteuxomenoi), and its literary genre is that of a monograph treatise using dialectic and exegesis as its principal methods. The dialectical method consists in discussing the opinions of Simplicius\u2019 predecessors, ancient and modern, mainly Aristotle and Proclus, to pave the way for the exposition of the truth, following the method inaugurated by Aristotle in the Topics and still very much alive. It also proceeds by puzzles and solutions (aporiai kai luseis). Th e exegetic method reappears even within a digression which breaks with the continuous commentary and Simplicius devotes sometimes long passages to quoting and commenting on texts from Aristotle, Theophrastus, Proclus, and Damascius, but also from the Chaldaean Oracles, Iamblichus, or Syrianus. 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| Title | Simplicius’ response to Philoponus’ attacks on Aristotle’s Physics 8.1. |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Published in | Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 8.1-5’ |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Chase, Michael |
| Editor(s) | Bodnár, István M. , Chase, Michael , Share, Michael |
| Translator(s) |
The section devoted to Physics 8.1 is one of the most extensive and interesting in Simplicius’ commentary on Physics 8. On the one hand, it contains Simplicius’ usual meticulous comments on the text of Aristotle, who here begins his demonstration of the eternity of motion. As is his wont, the Stagirite starts out with a critical survey of the views of his predecessors, which gives Simplicius the opportunity to quote and explain a number of important fragments of Presocratic philosophers (Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, the Atomists, Diogenes of Apollonia, and especially Empedocles). But the bulk of Simplicius’ commentary on Physics 8.1 consists of one of his famous digressions, in which he quotes and attempts to refute several fragments from Book 6 of "Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World," written by his Christian rival, John Philoponus, sometime in the 530s. Many of the arguments of both Philoponus and Simplicius concerning time, eternity, and the nature of the infinite are of considerable philosophical importance, as a number of recent studies have shown. Quite apart from the intrinsic interest of the various arguments mobilized by both interlocutors, however, Book 8.1 of Simplicius’ "Commentary on Physics," together with his "Commentary on the de Caelo," provide us with vitally important documents concerning the conflict between pagans and Christians in the second quarter of the sixth century AD. [p. 1] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iGQQBkg5pZI6gua |
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| Title | Simplikios, czytelnik Epikteta |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Polish |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 35-43 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Łapiński, Krzysztof |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Simplicius, the Neoplatonic philosopher, and commentator from late antiquity, devoted one of his commentaries to Epictetus’ Enchiridion. In the article, the author posed the question about the place of the text by the Stoic writer within the whole Neoplatonic education system. In addition, he asked to what extent the act of commenting on Epictetus’ work could be conceived by Simplicius as a kind of spiritual exercise. In the second part of the article, the hypothesis by M. Tardieu and I. Hadot is presented, suggesting that the city of Harran could be regarded as the possible place of exile where the group of philosophers settled after the Platonic Academy had been closed. [Author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/rgNZtiPTGriNiqb |
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| Title | Simplikios: Wstęp do Komentarza do Encheiridionu Epikteta (wybór) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | Polish |
| Date | 2014 |
| Journal | Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 45-49 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Łapiński, Krzysztof |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
The translation includes an introduction to the Simplicius’ commentary on Epictetus’ Enchiridion. The author of the commentary explains to whom is the work of Epictetus addressed, what is the scope o f the Enchiridion, the meaning of the title and the literary genre to which it belongs. The supposed audience is the reader who wants to live in accordance with reason on the level of ethical and political virtues. Such a reader ought to internalize Epictetus’ teaching and appeal to it in the challenging moments of life. The Stoic content has been enriched with the Platonic teaching drawn from Alcibiades I about relationship between the soul and the body. The first Polish translation of Simplicius’ text has been based on the Ilsetraut Hadot’s edition. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WiboppserutXDBk |
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| Title | Sinfonia dei Presocratici. Su due παρεκβάσεις in Simplicio (in PHYS. 6.31–8.15 e 28.32–37.9) |
| Type | Article |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2019 |
| Journal | Epekeina. International Journal of Ontology History and Critics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Licciardi, Ivan Adriano |
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| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Smoothing over the Differences: Proclus and Ammonius on Plato’s Cratylus and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2016 |
| Published in | Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators |
| Pages | 353-366 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | van den Berg, Robbert Maarten |
| Editor(s) | Sorabji, Richard |
| Translator(s) |
Robbert van den Berg in Chapter 13 below fi nds a rather cursory attempt by Ammonius to restore harmony between himself and Proclus on whether Aristotle recognises any names as natural, aft er having said in the fi rst two chapters of On Interpretation that spoken sounds are symbols and signs which signify by convention what is in our minds. Proclus had given an elaborate theological theory of a divine name- giver providing natural names which matched Ideas, not in their sound but in their meaning, and of expert human name- givers possessing only principles ( logoi ) derived from Ideas and projecting the logoi into their imaginations to get a natural representation. In the case of naming the gods, the result could be like the statues which accurately represent gods and (in a theory of statues closer to Iamblichus than to Porphyry as described above) receive divine illumination. Ammonius does the minimum to support his teacher’s divergence from Aristotle. He connects belief in the effi cacy of divine names only with an obscure Egyptian priest, Dousareios, and he qualifies Aristotle’s insistence on the conventionality of meaning only to the extent of pointing out that some names have a meaning that is naturally appropriate. Thus Archelaos, etymologically ‘leader of the people’ is naturally appropriate for a kingly person (but apparently laos , ‘people’ is not naturally appropriate for people). [introduction] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/uahIaUKhOSkmoD1 |
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| Title | Speculating about Diogenes |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2008 |
| Published in | The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy |
| Pages | 353-364 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Laks, André |
| Editor(s) | Curd, Patricia , Graham, Daniel W. |
| Translator(s) |
Despite Diogenes Apollonia's popularity in the fifth century, he has been largely overlooked by histories of philosophy and is often dismissed as an eclectic thinker. The author discusses Diogenes' contributions to the history of philosophy, particularly his relationship between his noetics and teleology, and his role in promoting the doctrine of "material monism". The author also examines the reception of Diogenes' thought and the origin of his reputation as an eclectic. Finally, the author compares Theophrastus' criticism of Diogenes to Plato's criticism of Anaxagoras in the Phaedo, suggesting that Anaxagoras and Diogenes may have been more similar in their thinking than previously thought. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/JeUXtZEQBjrQ0NP |
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| Title | Stoische Ethik und platonische Bildung: Simplikios' Kommentar zu Epiktets Handbüchlein der Moral |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2013 |
| Publication Place | Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Universitätsverlag |
| Series | Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis |
| Volume | 5 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Vogel, C. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
Die stoische Philosophie steht in ihren grundsätzlichen Annahmen zur Erkenntnistheorie, zur Ontologie und zur Psychologie dem Platonismus diametral entgegen. Wenn mit Simplikios ein Philosoph der neuplatonischen Schule das Werk eines Stoikers durch eine ausführliche Kommentierung würdigt und diesem im Curriculum des Philosophieunterrichts einen Platz einräumt, scheinen sich die gängigen Vorurteile gegen den Neuplatonismus als eine alles vereinnahmende und harmonisierende Philosophie zu bestätigen. Ein Blick auf das Bildungsverständnis des Neuplatonismus und den in den Texten ausführlich reflektierten erkenntnistheoretischen Grundlagen bietet jedoch Anlass sowohl zur Skepsis gegenüber diesen Vorwürfen als auch zu einer differenzierten Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von platonischer und stoischer Ethik in der Spätantike. Am Beispiel von Simplikios' Kommentar zum 'Handbüchlein der Moral' des Epiket soll im vorliegenden Buch die Möglichkeit der Verwendung stoischer Texte als Vorbereitung für den Einstieg in das neuplatonische Bildungsprogramm dargelegt und begründet werden, ohne dass der Einsatz dieser Texte zu einer Vermischung der stoischen mit den platonisch-aristotelischen Theorien führt. So liefert Simplikios mit seinem Kommentar eine wissenschaftliche Ethik des Neuplatonismus, die mit der Darlegung und Beschreibung der Anweisungen Epiktets dem Unkundigen sowohl einen ersten Zugang in das philosophische Leben bietet als auch mit seinen weiterführenden Kommentierungen die rationalen Begründungen dieser Handlungsaufforderungen offenlegt. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/tbI3orMZBaXG2xX |
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| Title | Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2019 |
| Publication Place | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition |
| Volume | 24 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Finamore, John F. , Manolea, Christina-Panagiota |
| Translator(s) |
Studies in Hermias’ Commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus is a collection of twelve essays that consider aspects of Hermias’ philosophy, including his notions of the soul, logic, and method of exegesis. The essays also consider Hermias’ work in the tradition of Neoplatonism, particularly in relation to the thought of Iamblichus and Proclus. The collection grapples with the question of the originality of Hermias’ commentary—the only extant work of Hermias—which is a series of lectures notes of his teacher, Syrianus. [author's abstract] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/odl9mOkFu3fCl3K |
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