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Iamblichus' Transformation of the Aristotelian “katharsis”, its Middle-Platonic Antecedents and Proclus' and Simplicius' Response to it, 2000
By: Lautner, Peter
Title Iamblichus' Transformation of the Aristotelian “katharsis”, its Middle-Platonic Antecedents and Proclus' and Simplicius' Response to it
Type Article
Language English
Date 2000
Journal Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Volume 40
Pages 263–282
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lautner, Peter
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Aristotle bequeathed his followers certain notions that were of great importance to posterity. Some of them were taken up and discussed at length in Hellenistic schools, but others escaped notice; katharsis belongs to the latter group. This is all the more surprising since the Stoics made considerable effort to demonstrate that passions (pathe) can be tamed by reason. The Stoic ideal of freedom from passions, which implies conversion of each passion into eupathei, may at first sight have some affinity with the interpretation of katharsis? which focuses on the ethical importance of emotions for Aristotle. But a closer look at the peculiar character of the Stoics' overall conception of the soul reveals that any similarity is but mere appearance. It is only among some of the later Neoplatonists that Aristotle's concept regains the significance it once had. By that time, it gains a strong ethical emphasis. As far as our evidence allows us to say, the development started in the early imperial age. My aim is to follow the renascence of this notion in Iamblichus, its antecedents among the Platonists of the early empire, and the way Proclus and Simplicius reacted to Iamblichus' attempt. [Introduction, p. 263]

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Die Prinzipienlehre des Moderatos von Gades. Zu Simplikios in Ph. 230,34-231,24 Diels, 2000
By: Tornau, Christian
Title Die Prinzipienlehre des Moderatos von Gades. Zu Simplikios in Ph. 230,34-231,24 Diels
Type Article
Language German
Date 2000
Journal Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
Volume 143
Issue 2
Pages 197-220
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tornau, Christian
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Dieser Text untersucht Simplicius' Kommentar zum Doxographen Moderatos von Gades in seinem Kommentar zu Porphyrios' Werk "Über die Materie". Der doxographische Bericht besteht aus zwei Teilen, wobei der erste eine hierarchische Systematik von drei Entitäten präsentiert - dem transzendenten Einen, der Welt der erkennbaren Formen und dem Bereich der Seele - und der zweite die Herkunft der Materie gemäß einem metaphysischen Modell erläutert. Die Analyse dieser Doxographie verdeutlicht ihre Bedeutung für das Verständnis platonischer Einflüsse auf spätere Denker. E.R. Dodds und Matthias Baltes haben das Verhältnis zwischen Moderatos' Hierarchie und Platons Parmenides aufgedeckt und die Rolle des Logos in der Schöpfung der Wesen sowie die Verbindung der ycopa mit der Seele als "seelischer Raum" (psychischer Raum) identifiziert, der es der Seele ermöglicht, den Weltkörper zu umfassen. Obwohl Baltes überzeugende Interpretationen liefert, bleiben einige Fragen und Herausforderungen hinsichtlich der Identifizierung der "Seienden", der Beziehung zwischen dem Logos und den drei Entitäten, um sinnliche Objekte zu beschreiben. Trotz offener Fragen trägt der Text zu den laufenden Diskussionen über die neupythagoreische Interpretation des Platonismus und ihren Einfluss auf spätere philosophische Gedanken bei. Er betont die Bedeutung einer detaillierten und historisch fundierten Untersuchung der Doxographie, um die Komplexität und Implikationen von Moderatos' philosophischem System und dessen Verbindungen zu platonischen Lehren vollständig zu erfassen. [introduction]

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The Strasbourg Papyrus of Empedocles: Some Preliminary Remarks, 1999
By: van der Ben, Nicolaas
Title The Strasbourg Papyrus of Empedocles: Some Preliminary Remarks
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Mnemosyne, Fourth Series
Volume 52
Issue 5
Pages 525-544
Categories no categories
Author(s) van der Ben, Nicolaas
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory, 1999
By: Lehoux, Daryn
Title All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Apeiron. A journal for ancient philosophy and science
Volume 32
Issue 1
Pages 1–36
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lehoux, Daryn
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Through an analysis of the extant testimonia, I shall attempt to estab­lish Strato's theory of place, ultimately favouring Simplicius's account over that of Stobaeus. The arguments and issues involved, however, will take us through a wide variety of the possible sources for Strato and an analysis of their ideas and objectives in providing their evidence. I argue, contra Furley and Berryman, that there is good reason to suppose that Strato held a theory of horror vacui qua explanans, possibly having bor­ rowed it from some earlier source, and that he did in fact create the microvoid theory. These separate strands tie together into a coherent system that is attributable to Strato based on evidence that is sometimes direct and sometimes circumstantial. Thus Strato will be seen to be breaking away (to a certain extent) from a strictly Aristotelian position, perhaps following Theophrastus's lead. [Introduction, pp. 2 f.]

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Impetus Theory and the Hermeneutics of Science in Simplicius and Philoponus, 1999
By: Wildberg, Christian
Title Impetus Theory and the Hermeneutics of Science in Simplicius and Philoponus
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Hyperboreus
Volume 5
Issue 1
Pages 107–124
Categories no categories
Author(s) Wildberg, Christian
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The text discusses the study of Impetus Theory and the hermeneutics of science in Simplicius and Philoponus. Historians of philosophy and science evaluate ancient texts through different perspectives based on their philosophical inclinations. The approach taken could be teleological, dialectical, logical positivist, pragmatic, or doxographical positivism, aiming to understand the content and context of validity of ancient theories accurately. However, it is essential to distinguish between the context of validity and the context of origin of a theory, as the causes behind a theory's appearance may differ from the reasons proposed to justify it. The paper highlights the distinctive hermeneutics of Simplicius and Philoponus, with Philoponus adopting a novel heuristic method called constructive criticism to liberate his mind from Neoplatonists' commitments. The conclusion suggests focusing on methodological presuppositions rather than external parameters to elucidate the origin of philosophical-scientific ideas and controversies. [introduction/conclusion]

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The Synonymy of Homonyms, 1999
By: Flannery, Kevin L.
Title The Synonymy of Homonyms
Type Article
Language English
Date 1999
Journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
Volume 81
Pages 268–289
Categories no categories
Author(s) Flannery, Kevin L.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Is the homonym-synonym paradox important enough to force this emen­dation? I think that it is. If considering the two definitions in conjunction -the definition of homonyms and that of synonyms - it turns out that homo­nyms qua homonyms are not homonyms and, therefore, that only qua not homonyms are homonyms homonyms, that is a problem. We can resolve the paradox by breaking the conjunction - i. e., by severing the interdepen­dence between the two definitions by eliminating tas ouisas from the first. Would Aristotle have anticipated the paradox and set out his definitions so as to avoid it? We do not have to go so far. We need only believe that, when initially conceiving Cat. i, he had a consistent set of ideas in mind. That is, we need only believe that he had in mind a position that would not lead to the type of problems that typically arise when two definitions are interdependent. [Author's abstract]

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The Reception of Parmenides' Poetry in Antiquity, 1998
By: Popa, Tiberiu M.
Title The Reception of Parmenides' Poetry in Antiquity
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Studii Clasice
Volume 34-36
Pages 5-27
Categories no categories
Author(s) Popa, Tiberiu M.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicius on the Meaning of Sentences: A Commentary on "In Cat." 396,30-397,28, 1998
By: Gaskin, Richard
Title Simplicius on the Meaning of Sentences: A Commentary on "In Cat." 396,30-397,28
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Phronesis
Volume 43
Issue 1
Pages 42–62
Categories no categories
Author(s) Gaskin, Richard
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
At Categories 12b5-16 Aristotle appears to regard the referents of declarative sentences, such as "Socrates is sitting," as what later writers were to call com- plexe significabilia, i.e., items such as that Socrates is sitting. Simplicius' dis- cussion of this passage in his commentary on the Categories clearly shows the influence of Stoic philosophy of language; but, if we follow the text printed by Kalbfleisch, Simplicius' commentary is seen to be a muddle of Stoic and Aristotelian elements, neither properly understood. It is possible, however, by making a crucial emendation to the text, to preserve the Aristotelian integrity of Simplicius' theory of meaning. On that line Simplicius would be adopting the view that a declarative sentence refers to a thought in the first instance and a complexe significabile in the second instance. This view is plausibly the upshot of combining the Categories text with the first chapter of De Interpretatione. [Author's abstract]

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Plato as "Architect of Science", 1998
By: Zhmud, Leonid
Title Plato as "Architect of Science"
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Phronesis
Volume 43
Issue 3
Pages 211-244
Categories no categories
Author(s) Zhmud, Leonid
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should study and methods they should use? Our sources tell about Plato's friendship or at least acquaintance with many brilliant mathematicians of his day (Theodorus, Archytas, Theaetetus), but they were never his pupils, rather vice versa - he learned much from them and actively used this knowledge in developing his philosophy. There is no reliable evidence that Eudoxus, Menaechmus, Dinostratus, Theudius, and others, whom many scholars unite into the group of so-called "Academic mathematicians," ever were his pupils or close associates. Our analysis of the relevant passages (Eratosthenes' Platonicus, Sosigenes ap. Simplicius, Proclus' Catalogue of geometers, and Philodemus' History of the Academy, etc.) shows that the very tendency of portraying Plato as the architect of science goes back to the early Academy and is born out of interpretations of his dialogues. [Author’s abstract]

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On the Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus, 1998
By: Yavetz, Ido
Title On the Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus
Type Article
Language English
Date 1998
Journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Volume 52
Issue 3
Pages 221-278
Categories no categories
Author(s) Yavetz, Ido
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In 1877, Schiaparelli published a classic essay on the homocentric spheres of Eu- doxus. In the years that followed, it became the standard, definitive historical reconstruc- tion of Eudoxian planetary theory. The purpose of this paper is to show that the two texts on which Schiaparelli based his reconstruction do not lead in an unequivocal way to this interpretation, and that they actually accommodate alternative and equally plausible interpretations that possess a clear astronomical superiority compared to Schiaparelli's. One should not mistake all of this for a call to reject Schiaparelli's interpretation in favor of the new one. In particular, the alternative interpretation does not recommend itself as a historically more plausible basis for reconstructing Eudoxus's and Callippus's planetary theories merely because of its astronomical advantages. It does, however, suggest that the exclusivity traditionally awarded to Schiaparelli's reconstruction can no longer be maintained, and that the little historical evidence we do possess does not enable us to make a justifiable choice between the available alternatives. [Introduction, p. 221]

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Mathematik und Phänomene. Eine Polemik über naturwissenschaftliche Methode bei Simplikios, 2000
By: Haas, Frans A. J. de
Title Mathematik und Phänomene. Eine Polemik über naturwissenschaftliche Methode bei Simplikios
Type Article
Language German
Date 2000
Journal Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption
Volume 10
Pages 107–129
Categories no categories
Author(s) Haas, Frans A. J. de
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Im  Hinblick  auf die  grundlegende  Verschiedenheit  zwischen  der platoni­schen und aristotelischen Wertung der Mathematik und der Phänomene kann man erwarten, daß es genau im Kontext der platonischen Deutung der aristo­telischen Schriften zu einer interessanten Auseinandersetzung kommen mußte. 
Ein  gutes  Beispiel  ist  der  Kommentar  des  Neuplatonikers  Simplikios  (tätig nach 530 n.Chr.) zur aristotelischen Schrift Über den Himmel. Wie bekannt, hat  uns  Simplikios  in  diesem  Kommentar  wichtige  Informationen  über  die 
Astronomie und die einschlägige Wissenschaftstheorie bis auf seine Zeit, das 
6. Jahrhundert nach Christus, überliefert. Hier werde ich mich mit zwei wichti­gen methodischen Fragen  befassen,  die von  Simplikios  erörtert werden.  Er­stens:  Was  ist  die Erklärungskraft  der mathematischen  Prinzipien  im  physi­schen  Bereich?  und zweitens:  Was  ist  die erkenntnistheoretische Bedeutung 
der Phänomene? In einem letzten Abschnitt werde ich mich kurz dem Einfluß der neuplatonischen Aristotelesdeutung auf das moderne Verstehen der aristo­telischen Methodologie zuwenden. [from the introduction, p. 110]

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Matière et résolution : Anaxagore et ses interprètes, 1996
By: Lefebvre, René
Title Matière et résolution : Anaxagore et ses interprètes
Type Article
Language French
Date 1996
Journal Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger
Volume 186
Issue 1
Pages 31-54
Categories no categories
Author(s) Lefebvre, René
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Mediaeval Versions of Aristotle, De Caelo, and of the Commentary of Simplicius, 1950
By: Allan, Donald J.
Title Mediaeval Versions of Aristotle, De Caelo, and of the Commentary of Simplicius
Type Article
Language English
Date 1950
Journal Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies
Volume 2
Pages 82–120
Categories no categories
Author(s) Allan, Donald J.
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
The main  problem  with  which  we  shall  be  concerned  is  that  of the 
authorship  of the versions  of  de  Caelo  from the  Greek  which  made 
their  appearance  during  the  thirteenth  century.  But  it  will  be  beSt 
to begin with a recapitulation o f the fads ascertained by previous writers 
concerning  the  Arabic-latin  versions  in  which  this  treatise  to t  became 
known  in  the lands  o f Western  Europe. [p 82]

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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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More on Zeno's "Forty logoi", 1990
By: Tarrant, Harold
Title More on Zeno's "Forty logoi"
Type Article
Language English
Date 1990
Journal Illinois Classical Studies
Volume 15
Issue 1
Pages 23-37
Categories no categories
Author(s) Tarrant, Harold
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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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.
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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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Musonius and Simplicius, 1903
By: Mayor, John E.B.
Title Musonius and Simplicius
Type Article
Language English
Date 1903
Journal The Classical Review
Volume 17
Issue 1
Pages 23-24
Categories no categories
Author(s) Mayor, John E.B.
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Notes about Musonius and Simplicius

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Necessity, Chance, and Freedom in the Early Atomists, 1972
By: Edmunds, Lowell
Title Necessity, Chance, and Freedom in the Early Atomists
Type Article
Language English
Date 1972
Journal Phoenix
Volume 26
Issue 4
Pages 342-357
Categories no categories
Author(s) Edmunds, Lowell
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Fortune, which Democritus so disparaged, had the last laugh on the 
laughing philosopher when through the fragmentation of his work it 
obscured a cardinal principle of the atomist system, necessity. Or would 
Democritus have called this the fatum libellorum? At any rate, the 
obscurity of this principle is immediately apparent, both in the ancient 
doxographical tradition and in modern scholarship. Without endorsing 
any of the views which variously identify necessity with some one 
characteristic of the atoms, their weight or aboriginal motion, or with the 
void they move in,x one can yet attempt to undo the identification of 
necessity with the famous "whirl" of the atoms2 and to see necessity as a 
single concept of which the causal operation in the system is uniform. 
Even Zeus was subject to necessity, and one might think of Democritus as 
refining and systematizing an ancient belief, in the same way that in 
making r6 'povev  physical he subscribed, says Theophrastus, to a "most 
antique opinion," to which all the poets and sages adhered... [p. 342]

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