| Title | Commenting on Aristotle. From Late Antiquity to the Arab Aristotelianism |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Published in | Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter. Beiträge zu seiner Erforschung |
| Pages | 201-251 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | D'Ancona Costa, Cristina |
| Editor(s) | Geerlings, Wilhelm , Schulze, Christian |
| Translator(s) |
| The paper explores the structural aspects of the Arabic-Latin reception of Aristotle's works, particularly the approach or approaches taken by Arab philosophers in transmitting Aristotelian texts to the Latin Middle Ages. The author argues that the analysis of the doctrinal contents of the Arabic Aristotle is complex and instead focuses on the movement of rise and development of the medieval genre of philosophical commentary, particularly the line by line commentary typical of Alexander of Aphrodisias. The paper discusses the history and institutional context of the medieval philosophical commentary, including the influence of scriptural exegesis, literary and rhetorical traditions, and juridical and medical literature. The paper concludes that Neoplatonism was of paramount importance in the transmission of the Aristotelian corpus both to the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages. The paper also includes a synopsis of the Greek commentaries to Aristotle's works and their mentions in the Arab bio-bibliographical sources. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ohcpXlyiZyGXBH5 |
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| Title | Wehrli’s Edition of Eudemus of Rhodes: The Physical Fragments from Simplicius’ Commentary On Aristotle’s Physics |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Published in | Eudemus of Rhodes |
| Pages | 127-156 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltussen, Han |
| Editor(s) | Fortenbaugh, William W. , Bodnár, István M. |
| Translator(s) |
| This text discusses a critical assessment of Wehrli's edition of Eudemus of Rhodes' fragments, focusing on their relevance to physics and Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics. The author argues that Wehrli's edition, while once standard, no longer meets current standards and necessitates a new one. Simplicius' role in preserving and interpreting ancient philosophers' doctrines and the significance of Eudemus' fragments are highlighted. The paper presents additional passages from Simplicius' commentary that were not included in Wehrli's edition, suggesting the need for a broader approach to studying fragments. The value of Eudemus' clarifications for later commentators is emphasized, leading to the conclusion that a reevaluation of Wehrli's method and form is necessary for future editors of the Eudemian fragments. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/Owdxxm6uyCqNXiY |
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| Title | Modifications of the method of inquiry in Aristotle’s Physics I.1. An essay on the dynamics of the ancient commentary tradition |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Published in | The dynamics of Aristotelian natural philosophy from Antiquity to the seventeenth century |
| Pages | 31-56 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Haas, Frans A. J. de |
| Editor(s) | Leijenhorst, Cees , Lüthy, Christoph , Thijssen, J. M. M. H. |
| Translator(s) |
| In this essay, Frans A.J. de Haas explores the commentary tradition on Aristotle's Physics, focusing on the first chapter, which is considered pivotal for Aristotelian natural philosophy. The chapter sets the stage for Aristotle's principles of science and the method of scientific inquiry. However, the twenty-two lines of the chapter have not lived up to these high expectations, leading to a bewildering variety of interpretations in the commentary tradition. The essay aims to understand the development of the commentary tradition and the factors that influenced the various interpretations. De Haas presents a method of charting a commentator's philosophical environment to explain their modifications of Aristotle's doctrine. He examines the interpretation of Physics 1.1 by Themistius, an influential ancient commentator. De Haas identifies several factors that may explain Themistius' specific interpretation, such as the assumption of a deductive method in physics, the influence of Theophrastus' logical analysis, and Alexander's proposal of the coherence of all sciences. Themistius introduces the topic of universal concepts, which leads to discussions about the priority of universals in Aristotle's writings. The essay concludes that understanding the dynamics of the ancient commentary tradition allows us to recognize the influence of earlier interpretations in later commentators. This realization highlights the importance of carefully considering the original context and intentions of Aristotle's work to avoid misinterpretations in subsequent commentaries. [introduction/conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ERKCCFGaH9YKQNL |
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| Title | Thomas' Neoplatonic Histories: His following of Simplicius |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Dionysius |
| Volume | 20 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hankey, Wayne J. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Following Simplicius, Thomas set up the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophical viae as complementary oppositions each of which contributed to the truth. Thomas also followed Simplicius in discerning differences between the hermeneutic methods of the two great schools. He reproduced the history of philosophy of Simplicius as soon as he had his commentaries, agreed with many of his conciliating judgments, and used the same reconciling logical figures. He does not identify himself as a Peripatetic or as a Platonist. However, when he agrees that Aristotle’s way of reasoning, per viam motus, to the existence of separate substances is manifestior et certior, he is sitting in judgment with, not against, Simplicius. For both the sixth and the thirteenth century commentators, Plato and Aristotle are assimilated to each other in various ways, and the real possibility of any beginning except that from the sensible is excluded. Thomas’ hermeneutic is that of the Platonic tradition in late Antiquity – Thomas certainly thought that the truth was veiled under poetic and symbolic language and judged this to be essential for revealing the truth to humans. Consistently with this approach, in the exposition of the De Caelo, Aquinas goes so far with Simplicius as to find “something divine (fabula aliquid divinum continet)” in the myth that Atlas holds up the heavens.106 He would seem, thus, to be on his way to the reconciliation of religious as well as of philosophical traditions. If this should, in fact, be his intent, Thomas would be following Simplicius and his Neoplatonic predecessors in their deepest purposes. This Christian priest, friar, and saint would have placed himself with the “divine” Proclus among the successors of Plato. [Conclusion] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/iv8aERtbvhiRAMo |
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| Title | Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter. Beiträge zu seiner Erforschung |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2002 |
| Publication Place | Leiden – Boston – Köln |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Clavis commentariorum antiquitatis et medii aevi |
| Volume | 2 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Geerlings, Wilhelm , Schulze, Christian |
| Translator(s) |
| This collection of essays deals with the often neglected literary genre 'commentary' in ancient and medieval times. It is based on the work of the Bochum Graduiertenkolleg 237, where aspects such as definition, form and history of commentary texts, implicit commentation, pictures and paintings as commentaries were discussed. This volume presents a choice of 16 lectures which accompanied the colloquia from 1996. Introductions, but also special topics from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, classical philology, medical history, Arabic and Jewish Studies are given by the contributors. Great emphasis is laid on the interdisciplinary connection between these different points of view, for example by discussing the question on the impact pagan rhetoric had on Christian commentary texts. Further interest is focused on relevant literature - medicine, grammar, philosophy - and its commentaries. |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/FCrESN9kuDbXy8v |
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| Title | Alternatives to Alternatives: Approaches to Aristotle's Arguments per impossibile |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Vivarium |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-173 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Kukkonen, Taneli |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| When arguing from impossible premises, what was Aristotle's ratio- nale? Is there a way to salvage all of these purported arguments "through the impossible"? In this article, I wish to examine some of the answers offered by commentators on Aristotle ranging from Alexander to Buridan. We shall see that within the discussion, a more systematic picture of Aristotle's intentions slowly emerges. [p. 141] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/VugBKbHjOyRL2pO |
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| Title | Geist im Exil. Römische Philosophen am Hof der Sasaniden |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2002 |
| Published in | Grenzüberschreitungen. Formen des Kontakts zwischen Orient und Okzident im Altertum |
| Pages | 123-160 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Hartmann, Udo |
| Editor(s) | Schuol, Monika , Hartmann, Udo , Luther, Andreas |
| Translator(s) |
| Der Exkurs über Chosroes, Uranius und die Philosophengesandtschaft der athenischen Neuplatoniker im Jahr 532 gestattet einen Einblick in die kulturellen Kontakte zwischen Rom und Persien im 6. Jahrhundert. Er zeigt, daß es im Römischen Reich eine weitverbreitete Kenntnis über die Renaissance der Sasaniden unter Chosroes gab, auch wenn das Bild Persiens zum Teil idealisiert wurde. Die philosophische Bildung des Chosroes rühmten sowohl Perser als auch Römer. Der Exkurs demonstriert das breite Interesse an der anderen Kultur, das sich besonders bei den Heiden fand. Schließlich ver deutlicht er, daß sich Persien im 6. Jahrhundert zunehmend zum Fluchtpunkt für Heiden und andere Verfolgte aus dem Römischen Reich entwickelte. [conclusion, p. 156] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/o7O554frzFbwaGo |
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| Title | Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen. Von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias. Band 3: Alexander von Aphrodisias |
| Type | Monograph |
| Language | German |
| Date | 2001 |
| Publication Place | Berlin – New York |
| Publisher | de Gruyter |
| Series | Peripatoi |
| Volume | 7/1 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Moraux, Paul |
| Editor(s) | Wiesner, Jürgen |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/WQg0kcauTughFMW |
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| Title | Zeno of Elea's Argument from Bisection: Newly Discovered Evidence in a Hebrew Translation of Averroes |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2001 |
| Journal | Aleph |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pages | 285-293 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Glasner, Ruth |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| To conclude, in the Hebrew version of Averroes' long commentary on the Physics, comment 1.30, we find what seems to be Alexander's version of Zeno's argument ek tes dichotomias against plurality. Averroes interprets Zeno's argument as contradicting Parmenides', thus drawing attention to a problem that is latent in Simplicius' commentary. [conclusion, p. 293] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/qBSmUD61VUYUfx6 |
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| Title | Aquinas and Simplicius on Dispositions – A Question in Fundamental Moral Theory |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2001 |
| Journal | New Blackfriars |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 968 |
| Pages | 467-478 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Boland, Vivian |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| A crucial building block in Aquinas's moral theory is the notion of habitus or disposition since for him, following Aristotle, a virtue is a kind of disposition. But this more philosophical part of his account of virtue has received little enough direct attention in recent times for reasons that may become clearer as we proceed. What I want to do in this paper is to look again at those questions in the Summa where Aquinas explains this notion of ' habitus' or disposition. It is important for his understanding of the human being as a moral agent as well as for his account of grace, and in particular of those gifts of faith, hope and charity which Christian tradition calls 'theological virtues'. It is a text whose examination will lead us into a number of central and current questions about the nature of Aquinas's theological synthesis and about whether or not we may consider any of his work as purely philosophical, i.e. philosophical as distinct from theological. [Introduction, pp. 467 f.] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/YsbXUYxTy1D2KJ0 |
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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 | What goes up: Proclus against Aristotle on the fifth element |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2002 |
| Journal | Australasian Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-287 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Baltzly, Dirk |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
In this paper, I consider Proclus’ arguments against Aristotle on the composition of the heavens from the fifth element, the aether. Proclus argues for the Platonic view (Timaeus 40a) that the heavenly bodies are composed of all four elements, with fire predominating. I think that his discussion exhibits all the methodological features that we find admirable in Aristotle’s largely a priori proto-science. Proclus’ treatment of the question in his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus also provides the fullest statement of a neoplatonic alternative to the Aristotelian theory of the elements. As such, it forms a significant part of a still largely underappreciated neoplatonic legacy to the history of science. [authors abstract] |
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| Title | What is Platonism? |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2005 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Philosophy |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 253-276 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Gerson, Lloyd P. |
| Editor(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
My main conclusion is that we should understand Platonism historically as consisting in fidelity to the principles of “top-downism.” So understanding it, we havea relatively sharp critical tool for deciding who was and who was not a Platonist despite their silence or protestations to the contrary. Unquestionably, the most important figure in this regard is Aristotle. I would not like to end this historical inquiry, however, without suggesting a philosophical moral. The moral is that there are at least some reasons for claiming that a truly anti-Platonic Aristotelianism is not philosophically in the cards, so to speak. Thus, if one rigorously and honestly seeks to remove the principles of Platonism from a putatively Aristotelian position, what would remain would be incoherent and probably indefensible. Thus, an Aristotelian ontology of the sensible world that excluded the ontological priority of the supersensible is probably unsustainable. And an Aristotelian psychology that did not recognize the priority and irreducibility of intellect to soul would be similarly beyond repair.89 What contemporary exponents of versions of Platonism or Aristotelianism should perhaps conclude from a study of the history is that, rather than standing in opposition to each other, merger, or at least synergy, ought to be the order of the day.[conclusion, p. 276] |
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| Title | What is up to us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2014 |
| Publication Place | Sankt Augustin |
| Publisher | Academia Verlag |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | |
| Editor(s) | Destrée, Pierre , Zingano, Marco |
| Translator(s) |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/74yYPVs52JrEg66 |
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| 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] |
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| Title | What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2010 |
| Published in | One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today |
| Pages | 151-163 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Mueller, Ian |
| Editor(s) | Mohr, Richard D. , Sattler, Barbara M. |
| Translator(s) |
In this essay I want to say a very few things about Neo-Platonist interpretations of the T im aeus relating to the receptacle and the geometric characterization of earth, water, air, and fire. The starting point of my reflections was translating Simplicius’ commentary on books 3 and 4 of Aristotle’s On th e H eavens, and much of what I say is based upon that. But I will also be invoking a passage from his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and some material in John Philoponus and Proclus. I begin with some remarks about Simplicius’ basic conception of what we call Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato. [p. 151] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kdy176eZYVE5loi |
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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 | 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 | Which ‘Athenodorus’ commented on Aristotle's "Categories"? |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2013 |
| Journal | The Classical Quarterly |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 199-208 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Griffin, Michael J. |
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In this note I would like to revisit the identity of one of the Categories’earliest critics, a Stoic identified only as ‘Athenodorus’in the pages of Dexippus, Porphyry and Simplicius. There is a strong consensus identifying this ‘Athenodorus’with Athenodorus Calvus, a tutor of Octavian and correspondent of Cicero, roughly contem- porary with Andronicus of Rhodes.5 I want to suggest several reasons for reconsidering this identification. In particular, I want to argue that a certain Athenodorus mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.68) is on philosophical grounds a compelling candidate for identi- fication with the critic of the Categories, and that Diogenes’Athenodorus is relatively unlikely to be Calvus. As an alternative to Calvus, I tentatively advance the possibility that our Athenodorus may belong to a generation of Stoic philosophers who conducted work on the Categories in the Hellenistic period, prior to the activity of Andronicus in the first century, and under the title Before the Topics (see Simpl. in Cat. 379.9, who observes that Andronicus of Rhodes was aware of this title and rejected it). [p. 200] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/KQ20eDoKvhJNwR4 |
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| Title | Why Does Plato's Element Theory Conflict With Mathematics (Arist. Cael. 299a2-6)? |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2003 |
| Journal | Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |
| Volume | 146 |
| Issue | 3/4 |
| Pages | 328-345 |
| Categories | no categories |
| Author(s) | Kouremenos, Theokritos |
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In Cael. 3.1 Aristotle argues against those who posit that all bodies are generated because they are made from, and dissolve into, planes, namely Plato and perhaps other members of the Academy who subscribed to the Timaeus physics (cf. Simplicius, In Cael. 561,8-11 [Heiberg]). ]). In his Timaeus Plato assigns to each of the traditional Empedoclean elements a regular polyhedron: the tetra- hedron or pyramid to fire, the cube to earth, the octahedron to air and the icosahedron to water... [p. 328] |
| Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/xotNGBOXS7M4jeg |
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