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Aristotle’s Topics in the Greek Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories, 2014
By: Militello, Chiara
Title Aristotle’s Topics in the Greek Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories
Type Article
Language English
Date 2014
Journal PEITHO / EXAMINA ANTIQUA
Volume 1
Issue 5
Pages 91-117
Categories no categories
Author(s) Militello, Chiara
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper lists and examines the explicit references to Aristotle’s Topics in the Greek Neoplatonic commentaries on the Categories. The references to the Topics by Porphyry, Dexippus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Olympiodorus, Philoponus and David (Elias) are listed according the usual prolegomena to Aristotle’s works. In particular, the paper reconstructs David (Elias)’s original thesis about the proponents of the title Pre-Topics for the Categories and compares Ammonius’, Simplicius’ and Olympiodorus’ doxographies about the postpraedicamenta. Moreover, the study identifies two general trends. The first one is that all the commentators after Proclus share the same general view about: the authenticity of the Topics, Aristotle’s writing style in them, the part of philosophy to which they belong, their purpose, their usefulness and their place in the reading order. The second one is that whereas Porphyry, Dexippus and Simplicius use the Topics as an aid to understanding the Categories, Ammonius, Olympiodorus and David (Elias) do not. [author's abstract]

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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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Boéthos de Sidon sur les relatifs, 2013
By: Luna, Concetta
Title Boéthos de Sidon sur les relatifs
Type Article
Language French
Date 2013
Journal Studia greaco-arabica
Volume 3
Pages 1-35
Categories no categories
Author(s) Luna, Concetta
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The Peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (mid-first century BC), a pupil of Andronicus of Rhodes, is well-known for his commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, whose fragments are transmitted by later commentators together with testimonia about it. In his exegesis of the Categories, Boethus especially focused on the category of relation (Cat. 7), on which he wrote a speci!c treatise, arguing against the Stoics for the unity of the category of relation. The present paper o"ers a translation and analysis of Boethus’ fragments on relation, all of which are preserved in Simplicius’ commentary on the Categories. [Author's abstract]

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Un commentario alessandrino al «De caelo» di Aristotele, 2013
By: Rescigno, Andrea
Title Un commentario alessandrino al «De caelo» di Aristotele
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2013
Journal Athenaeum: Studi di letteratura e Storia dell'antichità
Volume 101
Issue 2
Pages 479-516
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rescigno, Andrea
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Which ‘Athenodorus’ commented on Aristotle's "Categories"?, 2013
By: Griffin, Michael J.
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.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
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]

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La teoria dell’intelletto e il confronto con Simplicio nel commento al De anima di Teofilo Zimara, 2013
By: De Carli, Manuel
Title La teoria dell’intelletto e il confronto con Simplicio nel commento al De anima di Teofilo Zimara
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2013
Journal Rinascimento meridionale
Volume 4
Pages 123-140
Categories no categories
Author(s) De Carli, Manuel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper describes the doctrine of the intellect developed by the physician and philosopher Teofilo Zimara in his commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, published in 1584 by the Giuntas, identifying the Platonism and Neoplatonism of Simplicius as the main features of his psychology. The essay then points out how Zimara's speculative suggestion fully inscribes itself in the disputes between Simplicianists and Averroists, which erupted within the School of Padua and then spread to other centers of culture of that time, forming an essential element of Aristotelianism in the sixteenth century. [author’s abstract]

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Intelligibles = Sinnliches? Simplikios' differenzierter Umgang mit Aristoteles' Parmenides-Kritik, 2012
By: Drews, Friedemann
Title Intelligibles = Sinnliches? Simplikios' differenzierter Umgang mit Aristoteles' Parmenides-Kritik
Type Article
Language German
Date 2012
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 155
Issue 3/4
Pages 389-412
Categories no categories
Author(s) Drews, Friedemann
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Simplikios nimmt Parmenides sowohl vor dem potentiellen Vorwurf, er würde nicht hinreichend zwischen Intelligiblem und Sinnlichem unterscheiden, in Schutz als auch integriert er Aristoteles' Kritik im Sinne einer potentiellen Missverständnissen vor beugenden Vorsichtsmaßnahme in seine neuplatonische Parmeni des-Interpretation und weist ihr so einen berechtigten Platz zu. Simplikios' Gründe dafür erscheinen vor dem Hintergrund seines neuplatonischen Denkens plausibel. Ob seine Parmenides-Interpretation als solche dem Eleaten gerecht wird, ist eine andere Frage; zumindest würde Simplikios gegenüber einer Deutung des parmenideischen Seins-Begriffs in dem Sinne, dass „jeder Gegenstand, den wir untersuchen, existieren muß", wohl einwenden wollen, dass dies einer Reduktion von Parmenides' το έόν auf ein abstraktes Erkenntniskriterium gleichkäme, dessen eigene, nur für das νοεΐν erkennbare Seinsfülle dann aus dem Blick geraten wäre. Auch erschiene es in dieser Perspektive fraglich, warum zum Erschließen eines allgemeinen Existenz-Postulats ein Weg „fernab der Menschen" eingeschlagen werden musste oder gar eine göttliche Offenbarung des „unerschütterlichen Herzens der wohlüberzeugenden Wahrheit", von der Parmenides schreibt, nötig war. [conclusion, p. 410-411]

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Mathematical Explanation and the Philosphy of Nature in Late Ancient Philosophy: Astronomy and the Theory of the Elements, 2012
By: Opsomer, Jan
Title Mathematical Explanation and the Philosphy of Nature in Late Ancient Philosophy: Astronomy and the Theory of the Elements
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 23
Pages 65-106
Categories no categories
Author(s) Opsomer, Jan
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Late ancient Platonists discuss two theories in which geometric entities explain natural phenomena : the regular polyhedra of geometric atomism and the eccentrics and epicycles of astronomy. Simplicius explicitly compares the status of the first to the hypotheses of the astronomers. The point of comparison is the fallibility of both theories, not the (lack of) reality of the entities postulated. Simplicius has strong realist commitments as far as astronomy is concerned. Syrianus and Proclus too do not consider the polyhedra as devoid of physical reality. Proclus rejects epicycles and eccentrics, but accepts the reality of material homocentric spheres, moved by their own souls. The spheres move the astral objects contained in them, which, however, add motions caused by their own souls. The epicyclical and eccntric hypotheses are useful, as they help us to understand the complex motions resulting from the interplay of spherical motions and volitional motions of the planets. Yet astral souls do not think in accordance with human theoretical constructs, but rather grasp the complex patterns of their motions directly. Our understanding of astronomy depends upon our own cognition of intelligible patterns and their mathematical images. [Author's abstract]

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Self-motion according to Iamblichus, 2012
By: Opsomer, Jan
Title Self-motion according to Iamblichus
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Elenchos
Volume 33
Issue 2
Pages 259-290
Categories no categories
Author(s) Opsomer, Jan
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Iamblichus' theory of self-motion has to be pieced together from various texts and passing remarks. Ever since Aristotle's critique, Plato's concept of the self-motive soul was felt to be problematic. Taking his lead from Plotinus, Iamblichus counters Aristotle's criticism by claiming that true self-motion transcends the opposition between activity and passivity. He moreover argues that it does not involve motion that is spatially extended. Hence it is non-physical. Primary self-motion is the reversion of the soul to itself, by which the soul constitutes itself, i.e. imparts life to itself. This motion is located at the level of essence or substance. The bestowal of life upon the body derives from this fundamental motion. As a result, animals are derivatively self-motive. Secondary self-motions are acts of thought in the broad sense. Contrary to the unmoved motion of intellect, the self-motion of the soul is not beyond time. This somehow fits Iamblichus' theory of the “changing self”. Iamblichus anticipates much of the later Platonic accounts of self-motion. [Author's abstract]

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What does Aristotle categorize? Semantics and the early peripatetic reading of the "Categories", 2012
By: Griffin, Michael J.
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.]

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Il male come "privazione". Simplicio e Filopono in difesa della materia, 2017
By: Cardullo, R. Loredana
Title Il male come "privazione". Simplicio e Filopono in difesa della materia
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2017
Journal PEITHO / EXAMINA ANTIQUA
Volume 1
Issue 8
Pages 391-408
Categories no categories
Author(s) Cardullo, R. Loredana
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The aim of this paper is to highlight the decisive contribution of Simplicius and Philoponus to the resolution of the problem of evil in Neoplatonism. A correct and faithful interpretation of the problem, which also had to agree with Plato’s texts, became particularly needed after Plotinus had identified evil with matter, threatening, thus, the dualistic position, which was absent in Plato. The first rectification was made by Proclus with the notion of parhypostasis, i.e., “parasitic” or “collateral” existence, which de-hypostasized evil, while at the same time challenging the Plotinian theory that turned evil into a principle that was ontologically opposed to good. In light of this, the last Neoplatonic exegetes, Simplicius and Philoponus, definitely clarified the “privative” role of kakon, finally relieving matter from the negative meaning given to it by Plotinus and restoring metaphysical monism. [Author's abstract]

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Intelligibles = Sinnliches? Simplikios' differenzierter Umgang mit Aristoteles' Parmenides-Kritik, 2012
By: Drews, Friedemann
Title Intelligibles = Sinnliches? Simplikios' differenzierter Umgang mit Aristoteles' Parmenides-Kritik
Type Article
Language German
Date 2012
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 155
Issue 3/4
Pages 389-412
Categories no categories
Author(s) Drews, Friedemann
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Simplikios nimmt Parmenides sowohl vor dem potentiellen Vorwurf, er würde nicht hinreichend zwischen Intelligiblem und Sinnlichem unterscheiden, in Schutz als auch integriert er Aristoteles' Kritik im Sinne einer potentiellen Missverständnissen vor beugenden Vorsichtsmaßnahme in seine neuplatonische Parmeni des-Interpretation und weist ihr so einen berechtigten Platz zu. Simplikios' Gründe dafür erscheinen vor dem Hintergrund seines neuplatonischen Denkens plausibel. Ob seine Parmenides-Interpretation als solche dem Eleaten gerecht wird, ist eine andere Frage; zumindest würde Simplikios gegenüber einer Deutung des parmenideischen Seins-Begriffs in dem Sinne, dass „jeder Gegenstand, den wir untersuchen, existieren muß", wohl einwenden wollen, dass dies einer Reduktion von Parmenides' το έόν auf ein abstraktes Erkenntniskriterium gleichkäme, dessen eigene, nur für das νοεΐν erkennbare Seinsfülle dann aus dem Blick geraten wäre. Auch erschiene es in dieser Perspektive fraglich, warum zum Erschließen eines allgemeinen Existenz-Postulats ein Weg „fernab der Menschen" eingeschlagen werden musste oder gar eine göttliche Offenbarung des „unerschütterlichen Herzens der wohlüberzeugenden Wahrheit", von der Parmenides schreibt, nötig war. [conclusion, p. 410-411]

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L'esperienza estetica fra logica e cosmologia nel Commentario alla Fisica di Simplicio, 2016
By: Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Title L'esperienza estetica fra logica e cosmologia nel Commentario alla Fisica di Simplicio
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2016
Journal Athenaeum
Volume 104
Issue 1
Pages 186-200
Categories no categories
Author(s) Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In  this  paper  I  will  explain  some  passages  of Simplicius, in   Phys.  1,  in  which  the Commentator discusses  the Aristotelian  expression pephyke de ek tôn gvorimoteron (Phys.  1.1, 184a. 16).  Here Simplicius  distinguishes  ta gnorimotera  from  to autopiston,  such  as the  def­initions  and  the  immediate  premises,  and  from  the  dianoetic  knowledge,  which  is  syllogistic and demonstrative. Notwithstanding the topic o f these passages is epistemological, here the Com­mentator, through a syllogism in which there is an evident reminiscence o f Plato’s Timaeus, cites the  beauty o f the universe as an  initial  step  to  raise to  the  goodness o f die Demiurge. After an articulated investigation  (in which are involved, as well, Aristotle’s Rhetoric and above all P osteriorA nalytics), Simplicius concludes that to kalon has  the same statute of gnorimoteron hemîn (Arise. Phys.  1.1.184a.l6). The purpose o f the Commentator seems that to conciliate Plato and Aristotle, and the result is an original and creative,  but at the same rime exact and careful, way  to do the exegesis  of Aristotle’s Physics. [Author's abstract]

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L'écriture et les Présocratiques: Analyse de l'interprétation de Eric Havelock, 2005
By: Palù, Chiara
Title L'écriture et les Présocratiques: Analyse de l'interprétation de Eric Havelock
Type Article
Language French
Date 2005
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 23
Issue 2
Pages 75-92
Categories no categories
Author(s) Palù, Chiara
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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La Brillance de Nestis (Empédocle, fr. 96), 2008
By: Picot, Jean-Claude
Title La Brillance de Nestis (Empédocle, fr. 96)
Type Article
Language French
Date 2008
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 26
Issue 1
Pages 75-100
Categories no categories
Author(s) Picot, Jean-Claude
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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La critique aristotélicienne des Idées en Physique II 2 et l’interprétation de Simplicius, 2017
By: Golitsis, Pantelis
Title La critique aristotélicienne des Idées en Physique II 2 et l’interprétation de Simplicius
Type Article
Language French
Date 2017
Journal Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques
Volume 101
Pages 569-584
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper examines Aristotle's criticism of the Platonic Ideas in Physics II 2 and the interpretation of Simplicius. Aristotle's critique focuses on the separation of physical realities, performed unconsciously by proponents of Ideas, which he compares to the method of mathematicians. In Physics II 2, Aristotle aims to clarify the distinction between the tasks of mathematicians and physicists. While mathematicians separate accidents (such as figures and numbers) from natural bodies to study them independently, physicists, like geometers, consider figures as essential accidents inherent to natural substances. The paper argues that the Platonic philosophers inadvertently separate natural realities from matter to establish the existence of Ideas. Aristotle maintains that the definitions of mathematical entities do not include motion, whereas definitions of natural entities, like the "camus" nose, involve movement or refer to it. The proponents of Ideas, by separating realities from matter, establish metaphysical and immaterial Ideas, conceiving them erroneously in a material mode due to their participation in physical realities. Aristotle's criticism does not imply petitio principii because it targets the unawareness of Platonic philosophers. They mistakenly posit Ideas as existing independently, akin to mathematical objects separated in thought but not in reality. This leads them to an illusory metaphysics, as they consider Ideas as less separable from matter than mathematical entities are. Instead of grounding a physics that studies forms within matter, they engage in a misguided metaphysical endeavor. [introduction]

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La fin du Néoplatonisme Hellénique. Mise au point sur la question, 2002
By: Saihi, Sofian
Title La fin du Néoplatonisme Hellénique. Mise au point sur la question
Type Article
Language French
Date 2002
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 20
Issue 2
Pages 83-110
Categories no categories
Author(s) Saihi, Sofian
Editor(s)
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La pensée s'exprime «grâce» à l'être (Parménide, fr. 8.35), 2004
By: Cordero, Néstor-Luis
Title La pensée s'exprime «grâce» à l'être (Parménide, fr. 8.35)
Type Article
Language French
Date 2004
Journal Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger
Volume 194
Issue 1
Pages 5-13
Categories no categories
Author(s) Cordero, Néstor-Luis
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The text discusses Parmenides' difficult philosophical ideas, particularly the enigmatic line 8.35 in his poem. The author argues for a specific interpretation of the line and responds to objections raised by P. Aubenque. Parmenides emphasizes the relationship between being and thought, with thought being possible "thanks to" or "because of" being. The author defends the use of the preposition epi + datif, which suggests a causal relationship between being and the ability to name things. Ultimately, Parmenides' philosophy stresses the importance of grounding thought and speech in what actually exists. [introduction/conclusion]

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La teoria dell’intelletto e il confronto con Simplicio nel commento al De anima di Teofilo Zimara, 2013
By: De Carli, Manuel
Title La teoria dell’intelletto e il confronto con Simplicio nel commento al De anima di Teofilo Zimara
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2013
Journal Rinascimento meridionale
Volume 4
Pages 123-140
Categories no categories
Author(s) De Carli, Manuel
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper describes the doctrine of the intellect developed by the physician and philosopher Teofilo Zimara in his commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, published in 1584 by the Giuntas, identifying the Platonism and Neoplatonism of Simplicius as the main features of his psychology. The essay then points out how Zimara's speculative suggestion fully inscribes itself in the disputes between Simplicianists and Averroists, which erupted within the School of Padua and then spread to other centers of culture of that time, forming an essential element of Aristotelianism in the sixteenth century. [author’s abstract]

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Le σκοπός du traité aristotélicien Du Ciel selon Simplicius. Exégèse, dialectique, théologie, 2015
By: Hoffmann, Philippe
Title Le σκοπός du traité aristotélicien Du Ciel selon Simplicius. Exégèse, dialectique, théologie
Type Article
Language French
Date 2015
Journal Studia graeco-arabica
Volume 5
Pages 27-51
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s)
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A six-page Prologue introduces the commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo written by Simplicius after 529 AD. As usual in  the  exegeses  typical  of  the  Neoplatonic  schools  of  late  Antiquity,  this  Prologue  addresses  a  series  of  preliminary 
questions that are meant to steer the interpretation in its entirety, as well as to frame the text to be commented upon within the reading canon of the Aristotelian works, which were intended to provide the propaedeutics to the reading canon of Plato’s dialogues. Simplicius addresses the question of the scope of De Caelo, discussing the interpretations advanced  by  Alexander  of  Aphrodisias,  Iamblichus,  and  Syrianus.  According  to  Alexander,  this  treatise  deals  with the universe as a whole, as well as with the five simple bodies contained in it. It was with Iamblichus, who advocated the idea that for each Platonic dialogue there was only one skopos, that the unity of a philosophical work was raised 
to the rank of a general rule. According to Iamblichus, the skopos of the De Caelo is the divine body of heaven. As a  consequence,  the  primary  elements  that  depend  upon  the  heavens  are  included  in  the  treatise.  Syrianus  deepens 
the theological tendency implied in Iamblichus’ interpretation: for him, the skopos of the De Caelo is primarily the divine  body  of  heaven,  and  only  secondarily  the  set  of  sublunar  elements.  Simplicius  treasures  the  commentary  by 
Alexander; nevertheless, he questions the skopos assigned by him: Alexander underestimated the importance of the unity of the treatise, even though his intention to account for each and every question raised by Aristotle was laudable. Contrarily, Syrianus was right in emphasizing the theological vein of the De Caelo, but focussed only on the section on the divine body of heaven, playing down books III and IV as if they were only ancillary, thus forgetting that the skopos must account for the whole of the treatise at hand. Between the two positions, Simplicius advocates the idea of a synthetical skopos, following in the footsteps of Iamblichus’ interpretation, but taking systematically into account the best of Alexander’s. The skopos of the De Caelo is the divine heaven, that “communicates” its perfections to the 
entire universe. Simplicius’ position is revealed to be very different with respect to that of other commentators like Ammonius and Philoponus, who both considered that the title was self-evident and required no special investigation. [Author's abstract]

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