Author 552
Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence, 2016
By: Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Aristotle Transformed. The ancient commentators and their influence
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2016
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Edition No. 2
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
The story of the ancient commentators on Aristotle has not previously been told at book length. Here it is assembled for the fi rst time by drawing both on some of the classic articles translated into English or revised and on the very latest research. Some of the chapters will be making revisionary suggestions unfamiliar even to specialists in the fi eld. Th e philosophical interest of the commentators has been illustrated elsewhere. 1 Th e aim here is not so much to do this again as to set out the background of the commentary tradition against which further philosophical discussion and discussions of other kinds can take place. Th e importance of the commentators lies partly in their representing the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and Neoplatonist schools, partly in the panorama they provide of the 1100 years of Ancient Greek philosophy, preserving as they do many original quotations from lost philosophical works. Still more signifi cant is their profound infl uence, uncovered in some of the chapters below, on subsequent philosophy, Islamic and European. Th is was due partly to their preserving anti-Aristotelian material which helped to inspire medieval and Renaissance science, but still more to their presenting an Aristotle transformed in ways which happened to make him acceptable to the Christian Church. It is not just Aristotle, but this Aristotle transformed and embedded in the philosophy of the commentators, that lies behind the views of later thinkers. [authors abstract]

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Mixis: le problème du mélange dans la philosophie grecque d'Aristote à Simplicius, 2016
By: Groisard, Jocelyn
Title Mixis: le problème du mélange dans la philosophie grecque d'Aristote à Simplicius
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 2016
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Belles lettres
Series Anagôgê
Volume 9
Categories no categories
Author(s) Groisard, Jocelyn
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Que se passe-t-il quand de l'eau et du vin se melangent ? Comment les quatre elements simples du monde physique se melent-ils les uns aux autres pour former les choses qui nous entourent ? La multitude des couleurs vient-elle aussi d'un melange de couleurs simples ? Deux corps melanges sont-ils simplement juxtaposes a une echelle microscopique ou bien peuvent-ils se compenetrer de sorte qu'il y aurait deux corps dans le meme lieu ? L'union de l'ame et du corps est-elle un melange ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions etonnamment diverses que croise cette histoire du probleme du melange dans la philosophie grecque. Le recit propose ici suit trois lignes principales : la tradition peripateticienne, qui, d'Aristote a son commentateur Alexandre d'Aphrodise, elabore un modele de melange par mediation ou les ingredients de depart s'assimilent reciproquement pour s'unifier en un compose qualitativement intermediaire ; la doctrine stoicienne de la mixtion de part en part , ou les ingredients se compenetrent jusqu'a devenir parfaitement coextensifs ; le neoplatonisme et les transpositions qu'il opere a partir des modeles physiques precedents pour penser non seulement des relations entre corps mais aussi celle entre l'ame et le corps ou bien entre les realites incorporelles ou immaterielles de l'arriere-monde suprasensible. Fondee sur un vaste corpus de textes couvrant pres d'un millenaire d'histoire de la philosophie grecque, cette etude se veut aussi une proposition de methode : donner a lire les textes eux-memes et rester au plus pres de l'analyse des sources pour suivre parmi l'etonnant foisonnement des doctrines les developpements aussi divers qu'inattendus que la raison humaine, dans sa luxuriante imagination theorique, sait donner a la meme idee, fut-elle aussi courante et intuitive que celle de melange.

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Simplicius and Philoponus on the Authority of Aristotle, 2016
By: Golitsis, Pantelis, Falcon, Andrea (Ed.)
Title Simplicius and Philoponus on the Authority of Aristotle
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Brill’ Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Pages 419-438
Categories no categories
Author(s) Golitsis, Pantelis
Editor(s) Falcon, Andrea
Translator(s)
Simplicius endeavoured to establish Aristotle not only as an unshakable authority in philosophy of language and natural philosophy but also as a philosopher who fully shared with Plato knowledge of the divine truth (i.e. the truth about the first realities of cosmos: the Soul, the Intelligence, and the One). Philoponus, on the other hand, rejected Aristotle as an authority, countered many of his arguments in his Aristotelian commentaries, and openly opposed Aristotle in his treatise On the Eternity of the World against Aristotle. One should abstain, however, from thinking in a simplistic man- ner of Simplicius as the “traditionalist” and of Philoponus as the “modernist.” Philoponus seems to have fully accepted the authority of Moses while commenting on the Genesis, and the fully equal rank that Simplicius granted to Aristotle and Plato was a novelty within the Neoplatonic tradition. Both philosophers, we might say, served a religious purpose by using a philosophical method; they both had recourse to philosophical exegesis, the former in order to demolish Hellenic authorities and establish the truth of Christianity, mainly its doctrine of creationism, the latter in order to defend Hellenism as a unitary and perennial system of thought. [introduction, p. 419-420]

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Brill’ Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity, 2016
By: Falcon, Andrea (Ed.)
Title Brill’ Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2016
Publication Place Leiden – Boston
Publisher Brill
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Falcon, Andrea
Translator(s)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle provides a systematic yet accessible account of the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in Antiquity. To date, there has been no comprehensive attempt to explain this complex phenomenon. This volume fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD. It is laid out chronologically and the 23 articles are divided into three sections: I. The Hellenistic Reception of Aristotle; II. The Post-Hellenistic Engagement with Aristotle; III. Aristotle in Late Antiquity. Topics include Aristotle and the Stoa, Andronicus of Rhodes and the construction of the Aristotelian corpus, the return to Aristotle in the first century BC, and the role of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry in the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to Late Antiquity. [author's abstract]

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The notion of ἐπιτηδειότης in Simplicius' discussion of quality, 2016
By: Hauer, Mareike
Title The notion of ἐπιτηδειότης in Simplicius' discussion of quality
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
Volume 27
Pages 65-83
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hauer, Mareike
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper, I will focus on the meaning and function of epitêdeiotês in Simplicius and I will argue, based on an analysis of different passages of chapter 8 of Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, that epitêdeiotês is not a mere substitute for the Aristotelian notion of dynamis, in Simplicius either. However, it will become apparent that Simplicius does not make any effort to clearly distinguish epitêdeiotês from dynamis, an aspect that might have led Todd to assume that epitêdeiotês is a mere substitute for the Aristotelian notion of dynamis. The fact that Simplicius does not explicitly distinguish epitêdeiotês from dynamis does, however, not necessarily imply that he does not make anydistinctions between the two notions. [Introduction, p. 67]

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Simplicius on the Relation between Quality and Qualified, 2016
By: Hauer, Mareike
Title Simplicius on the Relation between Quality and Qualified
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Méthexis
Volume 28
Pages 111-140
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hauer, Mareike
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Simplicius claims in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Categoriesthat quality is prior to the qualified according to nature. However, in an interesting passage in the same com­mentary, Simplicius describes the relation between quality and qualified in such a way that it strongly suggests an ontological simultaneity. The aim of this paper is to clarify Simplicius' notion of natural priority and to investigate the extent to which the as­sumption of a natural priority of the quality over the qualified is compatible with the assumption of a co-existence of quality and qualified. [Author's abstract]

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Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines, 2016
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Golitsis, Pantelis, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
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]

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Parmenide tràdito, Parmenide tradìto nel Commentario di Simplicio alla Fisica di Aristotele. Saggio introduttivo, raccolta dei testi in greco, traduzione e commentario, 2016
By: Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Title Parmenide tràdito, Parmenide tradìto nel Commentario di Simplicio alla Fisica di Aristotele. Saggio introduttivo, raccolta dei testi in greco, traduzione e commentario
Type Monograph
Language Italian
Date 2016
Publication Place Sankt Augustin
Publisher Academia Verlag
Series Symbolon
Volume 42
Categories no categories
Author(s) Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Questo libro di Ivan Adriano Licciardi su Parmenide nel Commento alla Fisica di Simplicio colma una vistosa e per certi aspetti paradossale lacuna negli studi sul Neoplatonismo: sebbene Simplicio (VI sec. d.C.) rappresenti una delle fonti più importanti per la ricostruzione del poema di Parmenide (costituisce l'unico testimone dei celebri frr. 6 e 8), manca a tutt'oggi uno studio approfondito dedicato alla sua interpretazione della figura di Parmenide e in generale della filosofia eleatica. Il lavoro di Licciardi, accurato dal punto di vista filologico, ben documentato sotto l'aspetto storiografico e dotato di acume filosofico, costituisce dunque un contributo prezioso, e per più di un aspetto seminale, su un nodo strategico della trasmissione e della ricezione del pensiero di Parmenide. L'ipotesi interpretativa che regge l'impianto storiografico di questo studio è che il Parmenide tràdito di Simplicio sia contemporaneamente un Parmenide tradìto. In effetti, Simplicio si impegna a promuovere un'immagine di Parmenide che risulti omogenea alla strategia concordista che attraversa una larga parte del tardo neoplatoni-smo pagano. La sostanziale convergenza tra Platone e Aristotele viene estesa da Simplicio anche a Parmenide, al quale egli attribuisce un'attitudine filosofica che anticipa il bi-mondismo formu-lato da Platone. Come già prima di lui aveva fatto Plutarco di Cheronea, anche Simplicio attri-buisce a Parmenide la formulazione dell'opposizione 'platonica' tra intelligibile e sensibile; sul-le orme di Plotino Simplicio interpreta il monismo ontologico di Parmenide, ossia la concezione dell'essere-uno, come una prefigurazione della seconda 'ipotesi' dell'esercizio del Parmenide platonico, dove vengono esaminate le conseguenze a partire dall'uno che è. Del resto la stessa critica che Aristotele muove a Parmenide e all'Eleatismo viene fortemente indebolita da Simplicio, che la piega alle esigenze della sua attitudine concordista. Il risultato di una simile operazione è, come spiega bene Licciardi, che il Parmenide di Simplicio non è né quello storico, né quello 'platonico', ossia quello messo in scena nel Parmenide, e neppure quello 'aristotelico', cioè quello contenuto nel I libro della Fisica. [Franco Ferrari]

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Rational Assent and Self-Reversion: A Neoplatonist Response to the Stoics, 2016
By: Coope, Ursula
Title Rational Assent and Self-Reversion: A Neoplatonist Response to the Stoics
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Volume 50
Pages 237-288
Categories no categories
Author(s) Coope, Ursula
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Humans are accountable for what they do and believe in a way that other animals are not. T h e Stoics held that this is because hu­mans are rational, and in particular because they have the capacity for rational assent. But how exactly does the capacity for rational assent explain accountability? O ur Stoic sources do not explicitly answer this question, but I argue that they suggest the following view. Humans are responsible for assenting (and withholding as­ sent) just because o f the way in which the capacity for assent is reason-responsive: you can assent (or withhold assent) for reasons, and if you know whether or not you should be assenting, you can be guided by this knowledge in either assenting or withholding assent.This view, however, raises certain further questions. What is it about the nature o f our capacity for assent that enables it to be reason-responsive in a way that other psychic capacities are not? Why can one assent for a reason, but not have at* impression of something's being the case for a reason? I argue that a basis for answering these questions can be found in a perhaps surprising source: ps.-Simplicius' sixth-century commentary on Aristotle's De anima. Ps.-Simplicius draws on the Neoplatonist notion of self-reversion to explain what is distinctive about the rational capacity for assent. His account, I claim, provides a basis for explaining the distinctively reason-responsive nature of our capacity for assent. [Introduction, p. 287]

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The Peripatetics: Aristotle’s Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE, 2016
By: Baltussen, Han
Title The Peripatetics: Aristotle’s Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2016
Categories no categories
Author(s) Baltussen, Han
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a fundamental tension between philosophical creativity and the notions of core teachings and canonisation. The book discusses the major philosophical preoccupations of the Peripatetics, interactions with Hellenistic schools of thought, and the shift in focus among Greek philosophers in a changing political landscape. It is the first book of its kind to provide a survey of this important philosophical tradition. [author's abstract]

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Augustin, «Confessions» 4, 16, 28-29, «Soliloques» 2, 20, 34-36 et les «Commentaires des catégories», 2001
By: Doucet, Dominique
Title Augustin, «Confessions» 4, 16, 28-29, «Soliloques» 2, 20, 34-36 et les «Commentaires des catégories»
Type Article
Language French
Date 2001
Journal Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica
Volume 93
Issue 3
Pages 372-392
Categories no categories
Author(s) Doucet, Dominique
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Aurore, Éros et Ananké autour des dieux Parménidiens (f. 12-f. 13), 1985
By: Frère, Jean
Title Aurore, Éros et Ananké autour des dieux Parménidiens (f. 12-f. 13)
Type Article
Language French
Date 1985
Journal Les Études philosophiques
Volume 4
Pages 459-470
Categories no categories
Author(s) Frère, Jean
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition, 2021
By: Erler, Michael (Ed.), Heßler, Jan Erik (Ed.), Petrucci, Federico Maria (Ed.)
Title Authority and authoritative texts in the Platonist tradition
Type Edited Book
Language English
Date 2021
Publication Place Cambridge – New York
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Categories no categories
Author(s)
Editor(s) Erler, Michael , Heßler, Jan Erik , Petrucci, Federico Maria
Translator(s)
All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition. [author's abstract]

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Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme, 2009
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Bonazzi, Mauro (Ed.), Opsomer, Jan (Ed.)
Title Autour d'Eudore. Les débuts de l'exégèse des Catégories dans les Moyen Platonisme
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2009
Published in The Origins of the Platonic System: Platonisms of the early empire and their philosophical contexts
Pages 89-111
Categories no categories
Author(s) Chiaradonna, Riccardo
Editor(s) Bonazzi, Mauro , Opsomer, Jan
Translator(s)
The renaissance of dogmatic Platonism and the revival of Aristotelian school treatises are characteristic features of philosophy in the 1st century BCE. Eudorus of Alexandria played an important role in both these processes, being central to constructing Pythagorean Platonism and its interaction with Aristotelianism. Eudorus had a deep knowledge of Aristotelian school treatises, including authoring a work on Aristotle's Categories. The study focuses on this part of his work, as the Categories were at the center of the Aristotelian renaissance in the first century. Eudorus' program of constructing a Platonic-Pythagorean system capable of replacing Hellenistic philosophies is visible in his work, as well as in other Pythagorean apocrypha. The author discusses the dominant position of Categories in the early history of post-Hellenistic Aristotelianism and the influence of Eudorus on the interpretation of Categories in the first century. [introduction]

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Bibliotheca Graeca. Sive notitia scriptorum ueterum Graecorum, Vol. 9. Editio nova, curante Gottlieb Christophero Harles., 1804
By: Fabricius, Johann Albert, Harless, Adolf Gottlieb Christoph (Ed.)
Title Bibliotheca Graeca. Sive notitia scriptorum ueterum Graecorum, Vol. 9. Editio nova, curante Gottlieb Christophero Harles.
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1804
Publication Place Hamburg
Publisher Carolum Ernestum Bohn
Series Bibliotheca Graeca
Volume 9
Edition No. nova
Categories no categories
Author(s) Fabricius, Johann Albert
Editor(s) Harless, Adolf Gottlieb Christoph
Translator(s)

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Bibliothèques et formes du livre a la fin de l’antiquité. Le témoignage de la littérature néoplatonicienne des Ve et VIe siècles, 2000
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Prato, Giancarlo (Ed.)
Title Bibliothèques et formes du livre a la fin de l’antiquité. Le témoignage de la littérature néoplatonicienne des Ve et VIe siècles
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2000
Published in I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona, 4-10 ottobre 1998), Tomo 2
Pages 601-632
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s) Prato, Giancarlo
Translator(s)

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Boethius and Andronicus of Rhodes, 1957
By: Shiel, James
Title Boethius and Andronicus of Rhodes
Type Article
Language English
Date 1957
Journal Vigiliae Christianae
Volume 11
Issue 3
Pages 179-185
Categories no categories
Author(s) Shiel, James
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
G.  Pfligersdorffer  has  recently described  the  attitude of  the an- 
cient editor, Andronicus of Rhodes, towards the final notes in 
Aristotle's Categories  on  opposites, simultaneity, priority, motion 
and  possession-what the  medievals called  the  postpraedicamenta. [...] The text I have proposed will still support Pfligersdorffer's 
argument (a)  noted above-but none of  the others. [p. 179, p. 185]

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Boethius as a Transmitter of Greek Logic to the Latin West: The Categories, 1993
By: Asztalos, Monika
Title Boethius as a Transmitter of Greek Logic to the Latin West: The Categories
Type Article
Language English
Date 1993
Journal Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
Volume 95
Pages 367-407
Categories no categories
Author(s) Asztalos, Monika
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
lassicists  are often repelled  by Boethius' inelegant Latin, awkwardly influenced by the Greek, and his- 
torians of  philosophy complain about his  lack  of  originality.  While 
acknowledging the essential fairness of  these two judgments, my pur- 
pose  in this paper is  to bring out what these commentaries, and espe- 
cially  the  ones  on  the  Isagoge and  the  Categories,1 reveal  about 
Boethius'  working methods in  his  earliest works on  Greek logic. I 
intend to deal less with the end product than with the road to it, and to 
point to the stages of  development and improvement exhibited within 
these early works. [p. 367] 

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Boethus' Psychology and the Neoplatonists, 1986
By: Gottschalk, Hans B.
Title Boethus' Psychology and the Neoplatonists
Type Article
Language English
Date 1986
Journal Phronesis
Volume 31
Issue 3
Pages 243-257
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gottschalk, Hans B.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Three  writers  of  late  antiquity,  all  of  them  Neoplatonists, refer  to  the psychological  doctrine  of  a certain  Boethus. Several  philosophers  of  that name  are  known,  and the  fragments have  been  variously assigned  to  the Stoic,  Boethus  of Sidon, who lived in the middle of the second century BC, and his Peripatetic namesake,  active about a century later. ' The purpose of this article is to  see  what exactly we  can learn about  this thinker from the extant fragments and then  to determine  which of  the  various Boethi  he  is most  likely  to  have  been. [introduction, p. 243]

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Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology, 2016
By: Rashed, Marwan, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)
Title Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2016
Published in Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages 103-124
Categories no categories
Author(s) Rashed, Marwan
Editor(s) Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)
Boethus of Sidon is crucial for the tradition of commentary on Aristotle, in that he is said to have recommended the remarkable project of writing a word by word commentary on Aristotle’s Categories (exegoumenos kat’ hekasten lexin), and he did write such a commentary on Aristotle’s Categories . Th is was eventually to have a momentous infl uence on the commentary tradition, although the earliest surviving commentaries aft er him are not as thorough. In addition, Boethus, in defending Aristotle’s system, seems to have downgraded his key terms, interpreting them as belonging to the lowest available level. Th is is true of Aristotle’s form, of diff erentia, of universal, and of his fi rst fi gure of syllogism. In Chapter 2, Marwan Rashed takes up Boethus’ downgrading of form as non- substance on the basis of Aristotle’s requirement in Categories 2a11–13; 3a7–9, that a substance is a subject of predicates, and not a predicate, so not in a subject. From this, Simplicius tells us, 21 Boethus concluded that, although a compound of matter and form, like Socrates, can be a substance, and so can matter, for example the fl esh and bones of Socrates, this is not possible for the form of Socrates, his soul. His form cannot be a substance, because form, though not mentioned in Aristotle’s Categories , is said in his Physics 4.3, to be present in matter. Th is exclusion of form was to prove unacceptable more than two hundred years later to Aristotle’s greatest defender, Alexander of Aphrodisias, discussed below in Chapters 3 and 4, because in works other than the Categories, Aristotle treats soul as substance, even though it is in body as a subject (Aristotle, De Anima ( DA ) or On the Soul 2.1). Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book 7 also treats form as a good candidate for being substance, and Metaphysics 8 speaks as if a different criterion for substancehood had already been implied in Book 7 (see 7.17): the cause of a thing’s being. 22 Alexander himself corrected Boethus by holding that form is a part of the compound substance, and a part of a substance is a substance. Rashed in Chapter 2 below cites a treatise in Arabic On Diff erence , existing in two versions, which he argues come from a lost Q uestion about diff erentiae by Alexander. It insists that the diff erentia of a genus, for example rational as diff erentiating a species of animal, is substance because it is a part of a substance, apparently because the differentia (rational) is form and form is part of the genus (animal). Th e Question also criticises someone who denies this by again relying on one of the criteria in Aristotle’s Categories for substancehood (just as Boethus relied on another one in his disqualification of form from substancehood), and this is one of Rashed’s reasons for thinking that Alexander’s opponent is Boethus. Th is time, the unsatisfi ed criterion is that substances receive contrary characteristics. Alexander in the Arabic version replies that it is not diff erentiae but individual substances that have to receive contraries. [introduction]

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