Author 102
Alexander on Physics 2.9, 2012
By: Sharples, Robert W.
Title Alexander on Physics 2.9
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
Volume 55
Issue 1
Pages 19-30
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sharples, Robert W.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
I want to draw your attention today to a report of Alexander in Simplicius’s Physics commentary which, as far as I can tell, has escaped the notice of everyone, myself included - and I have rather less excuse than most, for, as we shall see, the report connects directly with issues about which I have written in other contexts. That was concerned with On coming-to-be and passing-away [hereafter GC] 2.11, with Philoponus’s commentary thereon, and with Alexander’s discussion in some of the Quaestiones\ the present paper, with Simplicius’s help, extends the discussion to Physics 2.9; Alexander’s GC commentary, and the relevant part of his Physics commentary, are lost. [Introduction, p. 19]

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Un philosophe plus poète (Simplicius, "Com. in Ar. Phys." 24, 20 / DK 12 A 9), 2012
By: Santoro, Fernando
Title Un philosophe plus poète (Simplicius, "Com. in Ar. Phys." 24, 20 / DK 12 A 9)
Type Article
Language French
Date 2012
Journal Revue de Philosophie Ancienne
Volume 30
Issue 1
Pages 3-22
Categories no categories
Author(s) Santoro, Fernando
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper is about the meaning and implication for Presocratics modem exegesis of a comment made by Simplicius about the vocabulary of a passage from Anaximander, which he has just quoted. Simplicius says that Anaximander wrote his sentence about nature of beings in more poetics terms: ποιητικωτέροις ούτως όνόμασιν αΰτά λέγων. In their remarks on the passage, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only drew attention to the words and thought of Anaximander, but also made us look at that simple comment, that « hiccup » of thought in Simplicius. What is it for a philosopher to speak in a more poetic way? We propose to understand that it does not imply the use of images or allégories, but a very original way of interacting and thinking in universal terms. [Author’s abstract]

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Review of Huby, Taylor 2011: Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4, 2012
By: Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Title Review of Huby, Taylor 2011: Simplicius, On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal The Classical Review
Volume 62
Issue 2
Pages 465-467
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Megaric Metaphysics, 2012
By: Bailey, Dominic
Title Megaric Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Ancient philosophy
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 303-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bailey, Dominic
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Texamine two startling claimsattributed to some philosophers associated with Megara on the Isthmus of Corinth, namely: M1. Something possesses a capacity at t if and onlyif it is exercising that capacity at t. Be M2. One can speak of a thing only by using its own proper logos. In what follows, I will call the conjunction of M1 and M2 ‘Megaricism’.! The lit- erature on ancient philosophy contains several valuable discussions of Ml and M2takenindividually.? Butthere is no discussion of them together, muchless of their logical relations. I intend to remedy that lack, and to show whyit is a lack worth remedying. [p. 303]

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Zu Aristoteles’ Rezeption der vorsokratischen Prinzipienlehren (Ph. I 4, 187 a 12-26). Teil 2 (Themistios, Philoponos, Simplikios), 2012
By: Marcinkowska-Rosół, Maria
Title Zu Aristoteles’ Rezeption der vorsokratischen Prinzipienlehren (Ph. I 4, 187 a 12-26). Teil 2 (Themistios, Philoponos, Simplikios)
Type Article
Language German
Date 2012
Journal EOS
Volume 99
Pages 67-89
Categories no categories
Author(s) Marcinkowska-Rosół, Maria
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The paper presents an examination of the Aristotelian classification of the natural philosophers in Ph. I 4, 187 a 12-26. It focuses on the exgesis of this passage found in the commentarys on the Physics by Themsitios (In Ph. 5,2. 13. 9-28), Philoponus (In Ph. 86. 19-94. 16) and Simplicius (In Ph. 148. 25-161. 20). The ancient interpretations are discussed, evaluated and compared with the modern readings of the Aristotelian text.

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What Has Aristotelian Dialectic to Offer a Neoplatonist? A Possible Sample of Iamblichus at Simplicius on the Categories 12,10-13,12, 2012
By: Griffin, Michael J.
Title What Has Aristotelian Dialectic to Offer a Neoplatonist? A Possible Sample of Iamblichus at Simplicius on the Categories 12,10-13,12
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
Volume 6
Pages 173-185
Categories no categories
Author(s) Griffin, Michael J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Simplicius in Cat. 12,10-13,12 presents an interesting justifijication for the study of Aristotle’s Categories, based in Neoplatonic psychology and metaphysics. I suggest that this passage could be regarded as a testimonium to Iamblichus’ reasons for endorsing Porphyry’s selection of the Categories as an introductory text of Platonic philosophy. These Iamblichean arguments, richly grounded in Neoplatonic metaphysics and psychology, may have exercised an influence comparable to Porphyry’s. [authors abstract]

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

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“Creatio ex nihilo”: A genuinely philosophical insight derived from Plato and Aristotle? Some notes on the treatise on the Harmony between the two sages, 2012
By: Gleede, Benjamin
Title “Creatio ex nihilo”: A genuinely philosophical insight derived from Plato and Aristotle? Some notes on the treatise on the Harmony between the two sages
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume 22
Pages 91-117
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gleede, Benjamin
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The article aims at demonstrating that in attributing the creatio ex nihilo to both Plato and Aristotle as their unanimous philosophical conviction the Treatise on the Harmony between the Two Sages deeply depends upon the Neoplatonic reading of those two philosophers. The main obstacles for such a view in the works of the two sages are Plato’s assumption of a precosmic chaos in the Timaeus and Aristotle’s denial of any efficient causality to the unmoved mover in the Metaphysics. Both of these points had been, however, done away with by the Neoplatonist commentators already, especially by Ammonius in his lost treatise on efficient and final causality in Aristotle the use of which in the Harmony is shown by a comparison with Simplicius. Christian and Muslim readers just had to transfer those arguments and hermeneutical techniques into an anti-eternalist context in order to make the two philosophers agree with one of the basic tenents of their face, a hermeneutical technique considerably different from the one employed by al-Fārābī in his exposition of Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophy which is compared to the Harmony in a briefly sketched concluding section.

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Doctrine, Anecdote, and Action: Reconsidering the Social History of the Last Platonists (c. 430–c. 550 C.E.), 2011
By: Watts, Edward Jay
Title Doctrine, Anecdote, and Action: Reconsidering the Social History of the Last Platonists (c. 430–c. 550 C.E.)
Type Article
Language English
Date 2011
Journal Classical Philology
Volume 106
Issue 3
Pages 226-244
Categories no categories
Author(s) Watts, Edward Jay
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Archytas lu par Simplicius. Un art de la conciliation, 2011
By: Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Title Archytas lu par Simplicius. Un art de la conciliation
Type Article
Language French
Date 2011
Journal The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
Volume 5
Issue 1
Pages 85-158
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gavray, Marc-Antoine
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Intent upon harmonizing doctrines of their predecessors, some Neoplatonic com-mentators are faced with a problem of resolving doctrinal discrepancies so as to restore the συμφωνία in the history of philosophy. This article considers a parti-cular example of this attempt ats harmonization: how Simplicius reconciles Aris-totle’s Categories with the Neopythagorean doctrine of the Pseudo-Archytas. The chronological inversion introduced by the counterfeiter produces remarkable effects on the late Platonic doctrine about general terms, to the extent that a commentator such as Simplicius works to reduce the dissonance between Archytas’ and Aristotle’s words. This paper has three aims: to restore the general grid that Simplicius uses for reading and commenting on Archytas through Aristotle; to identify the exegeti-cal strategies aimed at a doctrinal reconciliation; to consider a specific case, pro-vided by the doctrine of weight, which engenders a new physical theory by Simplicius. [Author's abstract]

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Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8, 2002
By: Schofield, Malcom
Title Leucippus, Democritus and the οὐ μᾶλλον Principle: An Examination of Theophrastus Phys.Op. Fr. 8
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Phronesis
Volume 47
Issue 3
Pages 253–263
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schofield, Malcom
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
This paper is a   piece of detective work. Starting from an obvious excrescence inthe transmitted text of Simplicius's   treatment of the foundations of Presocraticatomism near the beginning of his Physicscommentary, it excavates a Theophrasteancorrection to Aristotle's   tendency to lump Leucippus and Democritus together: Theophrastus made application of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle in the sphere of ontol-ogy an innovation by Democritus. Along the way it  shows Simplicius reorderinghis Theophrastean source in his efforts to nd material which will strengthen thecontrast between Leucippus's   atomism and Eleatic metaphysics. And it  arguesthat in doing so he all but obliterates TheophrastusÕs   attempt to point up theDemocritean credentials of the οὐ μᾶλλον principle.

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Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, 2021
By: Harari, Orna
Title Logic and Interpretation: Syllogistic Reconstructions in Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2021
Journal History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 122-139
Categories no categories
Author(s) Harari, Orna
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this article I explain three puzzling features of Simplicius’ use of syllogistic reconstructions in his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics: (1) Why does he reconstruct Aristotle’s non-argumentative remarks? (2) Why does he identify the syllogistic figure of an argument but does not explicitly present its reconstruction? (3) Why in certain lemmata does he present several reconstructions of the same argument? Addressing these questions, I argue that these puzzling features are an expression of Simplicius’ assumption that formal reasoning underlies Aristotle’s prose, hence they reflect his attempt to capture as faithfully as possible Aristotle’s actual mode of reasoning. I show further that, as a consequence of this seemingly descriptive use of syllogistic reconstructions, logic serves Simplicius not only as an expository and clarificatory tool of certain interpretations or philosophical views, but also motivates and shapes his exegetical stances and approach. [conclusion, p. 138]

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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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Megaric Metaphysics, 2012
By: Bailey, Dominic
Title Megaric Metaphysics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2012
Journal Ancient philosophy
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 303-321
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bailey, Dominic
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Texamine two startling claimsattributed to some philosophers associated with
Megara on the Isthmus of Corinth, namely:
M1. Something possesses a capacity at t if and onlyif it is
exercising that capacity at t. Be
M2. One can speak of a thing only by using its own proper logos.

In what follows, I will call the conjunction of M1 and M2 ‘Megaricism’.! The lit-
erature on ancient philosophy contains several valuable discussions of Ml and
M2takenindividually.? Butthere is no discussion of them together, muchless of
their logical relations. I intend to remedy that lack, and to show whyit is a lack
worth remedying. [p. 303]

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Metaphysicizing the Aristotelian Categories. Two References to the Parmenides in Simplicius’ Commentary on the Categories (Simplicius, In Categorias 4 [CAG 8, 75,6 Kalbfleisch] and In Categorias 8 [291,2 K.]), 2008
By: Bechtle, Gerald
Title Metaphysicizing the Aristotelian Categories. Two References to the Parmenides in Simplicius’ Commentary on the Categories (Simplicius, In Categorias 4 [CAG 8, 75,6 Kalbfleisch] and In Categorias 8 [291,2 K.])
Type Article
Language English
Date 2008
Journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum
Volume 12
Issue 1
Pages 150-165
Categories no categories
Author(s) Bechtle, Gerald
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
From a systematic point of view this paper is situated in the wider context 
of the metaphysization of the Aristotelian categories. What does it mean 
to  metaphysicize  the  Aristotelian  categories?  [...] n  what  follows  I  wish  to  take  a  closer  look  at  two  passages  from  
Simplicius’ Commentary on the Categories. As we will see, Simplicius sum-
marizes, paraphrases, and also criticizes some already traditional aspects 
and  problems  in  relation  to  the  theme  of  noetic  categories.  [pp. 150-152]

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Methods in examining sense-perception: John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius, 2008
By: Lautner, Peter
Title Methods in examining sense-perception: John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius
Type Article
Language English
Date 2008
Journal Laval théologique et philosophique
Volume 64
Issue 3
Pages 651-661
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lautner, Peter
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The paper discusses the methods applied by Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius in commenting on Aristotle’s theory of sense-perception, and indicates their differences. Philoponus frequently employs medical theories and empirical material, mostly taken from Aristotle, to highlight not only the activities of the particular senses, but also a certain kind of awareness and the way we experience our inner states. By contrast, his Athenian contemporary Pseudo-Simplicius disregards such aspects altogether. His method is deductive: He relies on some general thesis, partly taken from Iamblichus, from which to derive theses on sense-perception. The emphasis falls on Philoponus’ doctrine since his reliance on medical views leads to an interesting blend of Platonic and medical/empirical theories. [Author’s abstract]

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Much Ado About 'Nothing': μηδέν and τὸ μὴ ἐόν in Parmenides, 2002
By: Sanders, Katie R.
Title Much Ado About 'Nothing': μηδέν and τὸ μὴ ἐόν in Parmenides
Type Article
Language English
Date 2002
Journal Apeiron
Volume 35
Issue 2
Pages 87–104
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sanders, Katie R.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Much Ado About  'Nothing":μηδέν and το μη  έόν in ParmenidesK.R. SandersIt is, to my knowledge, a universally  accepted assumption among con-temporary commentators that μηδέν, 'nothing', and το μη  έόν, 'what-is-not',  function  as synonyms in Parmenides' poem.1 In this paper, I focus primarily  on the central  role this supposed semantic equivalence playsin  arguments  supporting  an  emendation  in  line  12  of  fragment  B8. Despite this scholarly unanimity regarding the synonymy of these two Greek terms and the popularity of the emendation, I contend that we canmake the best sense of Parmenides' argument in this and  the surround-ing lines precisely by retaining the manuscript reading and recognizingthe difference   in meaning between 'nothing' and 'what-is-not'. This claim, of  course, also  has  broader implications for  the  interpretation of Parmenides' poem generally.

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Neue Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus (1995-2003). Teil II, 2004
By: Steel, Carlos, Helmig, Christoph
Title Neue Forschungen zum Neuplatonismus (1995-2003). Teil II
Type Article
Language German
Date 2004
Journal Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie
Volume 29
Pages 225-247
Categories no categories
Author(s) Steel, Carlos , Helmig, Christoph
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Nicolas, l'auteur du Sommaire de la philosophie d'Aristote : doutes sur son identité, sa datation, son origine, 2008
By: Fazzo, Silvia
Title Nicolas, l'auteur du Sommaire de la philosophie d'Aristote : doutes sur son identité, sa datation, son origine
Type Article
Language French
Date 2008
Journal Revue des Études Grecques
Volume 121
Issue 1
Pages 99-126
Categories no categories
Author(s) Fazzo, Silvia
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The paper discusses the attribution of the compendium De Philosophia Aristotelis to Nicolaus of Damascus the general historian (fl.: end 1st c. BC). By contrast, there are reasons to believe that the work was written by a Peripatetic Nicolaus between the 3rd and the 6th century, most likely from Syria in the 4th c. AD. Among the consequences: one piece of evidence for interest in a wide range of Aristotle's works already in the 1st century BC-lst century AD is removed; the supposedly earliest evidence for Metaphysics as the title of Aristotle's work is moved to a later date; the idea that Peripatetic activity more or less ceased with Alexander, Thémistius being the only exception, is weakened by another counter-example. On the contrary, a distinctively Peripatetic culture must have been still alive in Themistius' and Nicolas' time, when special tools were produced both for teaching activity and for the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to later eras. [Author’s abstract]

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Note sulla chiusura della Scuola neoplatonica di Atene, 2002
By: Napoli, Valerio
Title Note sulla chiusura della Scuola neoplatonica di Atene
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2002
Journal Schede Medievali
Volume 42
Pages 53-95
Categories no categories
Author(s) Napoli, Valerio
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