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Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen. Von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias. Band 1: Die Renaissance des Aristotelismus im I. Jh. v. Chr., 1973
By: Moraux, Paul
Title Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen. Von Andronikos bis Alexander von Aphrodisias. Band 1: Die Renaissance des Aristotelismus im I. Jh. v. Chr.
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1973
Publication Place Berlin – New York
Publisher de Gruyter
Series Peripatoi
Volume 5
Categories no categories
Author(s) Moraux, Paul
Editor(s)
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Pseudo-Archytas über die Kategorien, 1972
By: Szlezák, Thomas Alexander
Title Pseudo-Archytas über die Kategorien
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1972
Publication Place Berlin – New York
Publisher de Gruyter
Series Peripatoi
Volume 4
Categories no categories
Author(s) Szlezák, Thomas Alexander
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Fallgesetz und Massebegriff. Zwei wissenschaftshistorische Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie des Johannes Philoponus, 1971
By: Wolff, Michael
Title Fallgesetz und Massebegriff. Zwei wissenschaftshistorische Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie des Johannes Philoponus
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1971
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher de Gruyter
Series Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie
Volume 2
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wolff, Michael
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories d'Aristote (In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), Traduction de Guillaume de Moerbeke. Édition critique par A. Pattin, vol. 1, 1971
By: Simplicius , Wilhelm von Moerbeke, Pattin, Adriaan (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, Commentaire sur les Catégories d'Aristote (In Aristotelis Categorias commentarium), Traduction de Guillaume de Moerbeke. Édition critique par A. Pattin, vol. 1
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1971
Publication Place Louvain
Publisher Publ. Universitaires
Series Corpus Latinum Commentariorum in Aristotelem Graecorum
Volume 5
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius , Wilhelm von Moerbeke
Editor(s) Pattin, Adriaan
Translator(s)

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God Time Being: Two Studies in the Transcendental Tradition in Greek Philosophy, 1971
By: Whittaker, John H.
Title God Time Being: Two Studies in the Transcendental Tradition in Greek Philosophy
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1971
Publication Place Oslo
Publisher Universitetsforlaget
Series Symbolae Osloenses
Volume 23
Categories no categories
Author(s) Whittaker, John H.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Es geht um die im Platonismus entwickelte Vorstellung einer Gottheit eigenen zeitlosen, zeit3berlegenen Ewigkeit, die von Plotin aus (Enneaden III 7) die abend- lindische Theologie und Mystik stark beeinfluf3t hat. Zugrunde liegt Platons Spekulation 3ber Aion und Chronos, Timaios 73 c-38 c; ausformuliert ist die These vom ewigen Jetzt fur unsere Kenntnis erstmals im mittleren Platonismus (Plutarch, De E ap. Delph. 393 A-C). Doch hat sie der Neuplatonismus - sicher- lich zu Unrecht - bereits in ein beruhmtes Parmenides-Fragment (8, 5 D.-Kr., wo es vom Sein heift, dag ,alles jetzt zusammen ist", nach U. Hoelscher) hinein- gelesen. Der Verf., der diese Oberlieferungsverhiltnisse klarend darlegt, unterzieht das Fragment im ersten Teil seiner Arbeit einer scharfsinnigen, reich dokumen- tierten Analyse. Dabei wird die Ansicht begrundet, dai3 die Texte unserer spht- antiken Zeugen (Simplikios einerseits, die vier alexandrinischen Ausleger andrer- seits) nicht iber jeden Zweifel erhaben sind. Es k6nnte sein, daf3 bei Simplikios - dem die modernen Ausgaben zu folgen pflegen - eine neuplatonische Adaption des parmenideischen Wortlauts vorliegt, so daf die uberlieferte Form von Parm. 8, 5 fur die Ermittlung der Lehre des grof3enEleaten ausscheiden muf3te - ein fur die Vorsokratikerforschung recht erhebliches Ergebnis. - In einer zweiten Unter- suchung geht der Verf. dem gleichen Motiv (,Gottes ewiges Heute': der Leser der augustinischen Confessionen hat es aus dem grofartigen Lobpreis XI 13 in Erinne- rung) bei Philon von Alexandria nach, wobei sich ein belehrender Einblick in die platonistisdhe Tradition ergibt (verwunderlich, daf3 Clemens von Alexandria nach Migne's Patrologie, Maximos von Tyros nach der alten Dibner'sdlen Ausgabe zitiert werden). Auch aristotelische und stoische Einflusse werden gepruft. W. stellt fest, daf3 die meisten Philonstellen, die man bisher im Sinn der neuplatonischen Lehre von einer zeitüberlegenen Ewigkeit gedeutet hatte, anders zu erklaren sind; eine Ausnahme scheint in einer allegorischen Auslegung des Alten Testaments (zu Levit. 2, 14) vorzuliegen (de sacrif. 76). Es bleibt dabei, daf3 das weitreidiende Thema in voller Klarheit erstmals in Plutarchs ob. gen. Dialog angesprochen wird; er hangt sicher mit dem seit Ende des 1. Jh. v. Chr. wieder rege gewordenen Studium des platonischen Timaios zusammen, welches in dem Kommentar des Alexandriners Eudoros, eines pythagoreisierenden Platonikers, moglicherweiseeine Quelle Plutarchs hervorgebracht hat (hier ware auf eine den Problemen des mitt- leren Platonismus gewidmete Arbeit H. Dbrrie's hinzuweisen gewesen, in: Les Sourdes de Plotin, Entresiens sur L'Antiquite Classique, t. V, 1957 193 it)." (Review, H. Strohm)

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ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ: Zur Frühgeschichte der Buchtitel, 1970
By: Schmalzriedt, Egidius
Title ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ: Zur Frühgeschichte der Buchtitel
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1970
Publication Place München
Publisher Fink
Categories no categories
Author(s) Schmalzriedt, Egidius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Der Text behandelt die Frühgeschichte griechischer Buchtitel. Es geht um die Frage, ob die Titel von den Autoren selbst stammten oder später hinzugefügt wurden. Besonders wird der Titel 'Über die Natur' untersucht, der mehreren vorsokratischen Philosophen zugeschrieben wurde. [author's abstract]

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The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity, 1969
By: Weiss, Roberto
Title The Renaissance discovery of classical antiquity
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1969
Publication Place Oxford – New York
Publisher Blackwell
Categories no categories
Author(s) Weiss, Roberto
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The author traces the rise of a new attitude to classical antiquity, an attitude which became noticeable in the late 13th century but which came fully of age in the first half of the 15th century with humanists such as Poggio and Flavio Biodon. The book covers the period 1300 to 1527. [offical abstract]

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Das Corollarium de Tempore des Simplikios und die Aporien des Aristoteles zur Zeit, 1969
By: Meyer, Hubert 
Title Das Corollarium de Tempore des Simplikios und die Aporien des Aristoteles zur Zeit
Type Monograph
Language German
Date 1969
Publication Place Meisenheim am Glan
Publisher Anton Hain
Series Monographien zur Naturphilosophie
Volume 8
Categories no categories
Author(s) Meyer, Hubert 
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Review: In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the period of Greek philosophy after Aristotle. Since ancient Greek thought exhibits unbroken continuity, the commentaries on Aristotle from late antiquity retain an authenticity and value for the study of Aristotle himself, which have not always been sufficiently recognized. This extensive and learned work is a study of time as presented by Simplicius in his commentary on Aristotle's Physics and in the Doubts and Solutions of Simplicius' teacher, Damascius. It sheds new light not only on the Neoplatonic philosophy of time but also on the notorious "difficulties" of Aristotle regarding time. The work presents a significant amount of philosophical argument, often complex and subtle. Therefore, some oversimplification is necessary. Damascius and Simplicius utilize materials from two different philosophies of time: Aristotle's and Plotinus'. Aristotle's view is that time is the number of motion according to before and after, based on the phenomenon of regular and endless physical motion. Although number, in Aristotle, is a mathematical abstraction, time, being a number, is not merely ideal or mathematical but is actually verified in the physical world. Soul or mind is needed to make the before-and-after of physical motion actually numbered. The "matter" of time, the endless motion of nature (especially the heavens), is real, not merely ideal or mathematical. The form of time is determined by the real relation of before and after, making time a real category, one of the modes of being. Time is the way of being whose being consists in becoming. The other philosophy of time influencing Damascius and Simplicius is the more "idealist" Neoplatonic one, which bases time on the soul. According to Plotinus, the number of motion is an applied number. Eternity is the life of mind (nous), and time is the life of the world-soul. Numbers exist in the realm of mind or being or ideal forms, the second hypostasis of Plotinus. When mind descends into body, constituting soul or the third hypostasis, the life of mind or eternity becomes an activity of soul or time. Time is a psychic measuring, corresponding to Augustine's definition of time as a disrensio animae. Simplicius, like other ancient and medieval commentators, aims not only at a scholarly reconstruction of Aristotle's "difficulties" but at a real solution to the philosophical problem of time. The commentator's new and original philosophy emerges during the exposition of Aristotle's text. Simplicius' thesis is that the reality of time is the present moment, or now, or point of time, which is endlessly repeated. However, this cannot be a correct commentary on Aristotle, for whom time is solidly based on real physical motion. Simplicius' view of time is more abstract since he overlooks the reality of motion. The central part of Meyer's book examines in detail the philosophy of time in the Greek text of the Corollarium. Simplicius' view is that time is in becoming, not in being or eternity. Time's being is in becoming, and the only being in becoming is the "now," which makes time the "now." Simplicius contrasts this with his more Platonic teacher, Damascius, for whom eternity, to aei, or the realm of being, contains a form of time, a supra-temporal whole-time, or time-number, or mathematical "time," the unenfolded structure of number, which, in turn, contains time or continual becoming. Simplicius replies in a more Aristotelian fashion, arguing that Damascius' region of the "always" or "ever" of time, or time as a whole, is entirely unnecessary. Time flows infinitely, an always-becoming, but this infinity of time is not an actual whole. Time flows into infinity, but there is no actual infinite or eternal whole, as personified by Damascius' Demiourgos. Simplicius' interpretation is part of the wider movement of thought in later antiquity when time as the number of motion is forgotten and replaced by a more abstract definition. The interest in these thinkers, Damascius and Simplicius, lies in their providing us with variants or subspecies of the two great masters, Plato and Aristotle. Meyer's learned work makes these obscure texts widely accessible, and his interpretations of the rich material are cautious and sound. The presentation is not [iir die Menge; and, it is sometimes not very clear just what Greek distinctions are being noted by certain G e r m a n distinctions. There are misprints in French, G e r m a n, and Greek. The work is a fine contribution to scholarship. PAUL J. W. MILLER

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Aristote, Du ciel. Texte établi et traduit par Paul Moraux, 1965
By: Moraux, Paul, Aristote
Title Aristote, Du ciel. Texte établi et traduit par Paul Moraux
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1965
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Les Belles Lettres
Categories no categories
Author(s) Moraux, Paul , Aristote
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century, 1963
By: Momigliano, Arnaldo
Title The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1963
Publication Place Oxford
Publisher Oxford University Press
Categories no categories
Author(s) Momigliano, Arnaldo
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The relations between Paganism and Christianity in the fourth century seemed a suitable theme for a course of lectures at the Warburg Institute. The eight lectures here collected were delivered in the academic year 1958-9 and are published as they were delivered. It was, however, considered expedient to translate into English the two lectures which were given in French and the one which was in German.. The lecturers were left free to choose their own subject and to add the notes they wanted for publication. Specialists will judge each paper on its individual merits. For the general reader I have added, by way of introduction, a few pages on the problem of Christianity and the decline of the Roman empire. They were originally part of the two Taft Lectures which I delivered in the University of Cincinnati in 1959. A. M." [preface]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 1.5–9’, 2012
By: Simplicius , Baltussen, Han (Ed.), Atkinson, Michael (Ed.), Share, Michael (Ed.), Mueller, Ian (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 1.5–9’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2012
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Baltussen, Han , Atkinson, Michael , Share, Michael , Mueller, Ian
Translator(s) Baltussen, Han(Baltussen, Han) , Atkinson, M.(Atkinson, Michael ) , Share, Michael (Share, Michael ) , Mueller, Ian(Mueller, Ian) ,
Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by 'principle' and 'element' in Physics. Simplicius' own conception of matter is of a quantity that is utterly diffuse because of its extreme distance from its source, the Neoplatonic One, and he tries to find this conception both in Plato's account of space and in a stray remark of Aristotle's. Finally, Simplicius rejects the Manichaean view that matter is evil and answers a Christian objection that to make matter imperishable is to put it on a level with God. This is the first translation of Simplicius' important work into English. [official abstact]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’, 2013
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 3’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2013
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.(Urmson, James O.) , Lautner, P.(Lautner, Peter) ,
Aristotle's Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are to be counted as only one activity, however different in definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it contemplates.In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place, beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers that the past years no longer exist, so one never has an infinite collection.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’, 1992
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1992
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, J. O.() ,
This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 6’, 1989
By: Konstan, David (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 6’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1989
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Konstan, David
Translator(s) Konstan, David(Konstan, David) ,
Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting.
This is the first translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics whose works have survived to the present, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1300 pages in the original Greek, preserve not only a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle but also fragments of lost works by other thinkers, including both the Presocratic philosophers and such Aristotalians as Eudemus, Theophrastus and Alexander.
The Physics contains some of Aristotle's best and most enduring work, and Simplicius' commentaries are essential to an understanding of it. This volume makes the commentary on Book Six accessible at last to all scholars, whether or not they know classical Greek. It will be indispensible for students of classical philosophy, and especially of Aristotle, as well as for those interested in philosophical thought of late antiquity. It will also be welcomed by students of the history of ideas and philosophers interested in problem mathematics and motion. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 8.6–10’, 2001
By: Simplicius , McKirahan, Richard D. (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle ‘Physics 8.6–10’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2001
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) McKirahan, Richard D.
Translator(s) McKirahan, Richard D.(McKirahan, Richard D.) ,
Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of regress, there must be an unmoved mover. If this unmoved mover is to cause motion eternally, it needs infinite power. It cannot, then, be a body, since bodies, being of finite size, cannot house infinite power. The unmoved mover is therefore an incorporeal God. Simplicius reveals that his teacher, Ammonius, harmonised Aristotle with Plato to counter Christian charges of pagan disagreement, by making Aristotle's God a cause of beginningless movement, but of beginningless existence of the universe. Eternal existence, not less than eternal motion, calls for an infinite, and hence incorporeal, force. By an irony, this anti-Christian interpretation turned Aristotle's God from a thinker into a certain kind of Creator, and so helped to make Aristotle's God acceptable to St Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's work. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15, 2000
By: Simplicius, Gaskin, Richard (Ed.)
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 9-15
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2000
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Gaskin, Richard
Translator(s) Gaskin, Richard(Gaskin, Richard ) ,
Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Plato's classification into five kinds which included change.
In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and editor, Porphyry, defended all six categories as applicable to the physical world, even if not to the world of Platonic Forms to which Platonist studies must eventually progress. Porphyry's pupil, lamblichus, went further: taken in a suitable sense, Aristotle's categories apply also to the world of Forms, although they require Pythagorean reinterpretation. Simplicius may be closer to Porphyry that to lamblichus, and indeed Porphyry's defence established Aristotle's categories once and for all in Western thought. But the probing controversy of this period none the less revealed more effectively than any discussion of modern times the profound difficulties in Aristotle's categorical scheme. [offical abstract]

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Simplicius, On Aristotle's ‘Physics 5’, 1997
By: Simplicius, Cilicius
Title Simplicius, On Aristotle's ‘Physics 5’
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 1997
Publication Place London
Publisher Bloomsbury
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius, Cilicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Urmson, James O.(Urmson, James O.) ,
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle.
In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on.
This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.

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Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 1–26, 2002
By: Brennan, Tad (Ed.), Brittain, Charles (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 1–26
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Brennan, Tad , Brittain, Charles
Translator(s) Brennan, Tad(Brennan, Tad) , Brittain, Charles(Brittain, Charles) ,
[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the understanding, by a just confidence in the nature both of God and man.'
Edward Gibbon

'This book, written by a "pagan" philosopher, makes the most Christian impression conceivable. The betrayal of all reality through morality is here present in its fullest splendour - pitiful psychology, the philosopher is reduced to a country parson. And Plato is to blame for all of it! He remains Europe's greatest misfortune!'
Fredrich Nietzsche

Of these two rival reactions the favourable one was most common. Epictetus' Handbook on ethics was used in Christian monasteries, and Simplicius' commentary on it was widely available up to the nineteenth century.
The commentary gives us a fascinating chance to see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas, adding Neoplatonist accounts of theology, theodicy, providence, free will and the problem of evil.
This translation of the Commentary on the Handbook is published in two volumes. This is the first, covering chapters 1-26; the second covers chapters 27-53. [offical abstact]

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Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 27–53, 2002
By: Brennan, Tad (Ed.), Brittain, Charles (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook 27–53
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2002
Publication Place London
Publisher Duckworth
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Brennan, Tad , Brittain, Charles
Translator(s) Brennan, Tad(Brennan, Tad) , Brittain, Charles(Brittain, Charles) ,
The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century Ad Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle's Ethics, because it presupposed no knowledge of logic. We thus get a fascinating chance to see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas. The text was relevant to Simplicius because he too, like Epictetus, was teaching beginners how to take the first steps towards eradicating emotion, although he is unlike Epictetus in thinking that they should give up public life rather than acquiesce, if public office is denied them. Simplicius starts from a Platonic definition of the person as rational soul, not body, ignoring Epictetus' further whittling down of himself to just his will or policy decisions. He selects certain topics for special attention in chapters 1, 8, 27 and 31. Things are up to us, despite Fate. Our sufferings are not evil, but providential attempts to turn us from the body. Evil is found only in the human soul. But evil is parasitic (Proclus' term) on good. The gods exist, are provident, and cannot be bought off.With nearly all of this the Stoics would agree, but for quite different reasons, and their own distinctions and definitions are to a large extent ignored. This translation of the Handbook is published in two volumes. This is the second volume, covering chapters 27-53; the first covers chapters 1-26. [offical abstact]

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Simplicius, Σιμπλικίου μεγάλου διδασκάλου ὑπόμνημα εἰς τὰς δέκα κατηγορίας τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους, 1499
By: Simplicius
Title Simplicius, Σιμπλικίου μεγάλου διδασκάλου ὑπόμνημα εἰς τὰς δέκα κατηγορίας τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1499
Publication Place Venedig
Publisher Aldus & A. Asulanus
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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