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Philoponus and Simplicius on Tekmeriodic Proof, 1997
By: Morrison, Donald R., Keßler, Eckhard (Ed.), Di Liscia, Daniel A. (Ed.), Methuen, Charlotte (Ed.)

Title	Philoponus and Simplicius on Tekmeriodic Proof
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1997
Published in	Method and Order in Renaissance Philosophy of Nature: The Aristotle Commentary Tradition
Pages	1-22
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Morrison, Donald R.
Editor(s)	Keßler, Eckhard , Di Liscia, Daniel A. , Methuen, Charlotte
Translator(s)

In this paper I shall concentrate on a small but crucial episode in the development of one significant issue: the method by which the physicist acquires knowledge of the principles of physical things. n his commentary on the Physics, the sixth-century Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius puts forward sign-inference as a general method for acquiring first principles in physics: “Clearly, the grasp (gnosis) of the principles [of physical things] is through necessary signs (tekmeriodes) rather than apodeictic (apodeiktike)."... [p. 1]

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Roman Aristotle, 1997
By: Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Miriam (Ed.), Barnes, Jonathan

Title	Roman Aristotle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1997
Published in	Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages	1-69
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Barnes, Jonathan
Editor(s)	Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam
Translator(s)

hen Theophrastus died, his library, which included the library of Aristotle, was carried off to the Troad. His successors found nothing much to read; the Lyceum sank into a decline; and Peripatetic ideas had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy. It was only with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived— and it revived in Italy. For the library' went from the Troad to Athens— whence, as part of Sulla’s war-booty, to Rome. There Andronicus of Rhodes produced the ‘Roman edition’ of the corpus Aristotelicum. It was the first complete and systematic version of Aristotle’s works, the first publication in their full form of the technical treatises, the first genu inely critical edition of the text. Andronicus’ Roman edition caused a sensation. It revitalised the languishing Peripatetics. It set off an explosion of Aristotelian studies. It laid the foundation for all subse quent editions of Aristotle’s works, including our modern texts. When we read .Aristotle we should pour a libation to Andronicus— and to Sulla.That story is the main subject of the following pages. It is familiar enough; my argument will be laborious; I have nothing new to say about it; and my general conclusions are dispiritingly sceptical. But recent scholarship on the topic has taken to the bottle of phantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism to the next. Another look at the pertinent texts may be for given— and in any event the story is a peach. [p. 1]

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A “New” Text of Alexander on the Soul’s Motion, 1997
By: Rashed, Marwan, Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)

Title	A “New” Text of Alexander on the Soul’s Motion
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1997
Published in	Aristotle and after
Pages	181-195
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Rashed, Marwan
Editor(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

[Conclusion, pp. 181 f.]: To conclude, then, the historical evolution of the polemics may be summarised as follows: 1. ‘Aristotelian’ claim of the intellect from without; 2. Atticus attacks the intellect from without because of its inability to move; 3. Aristoteles of Mytilene (as reported by Alexander in Cl) defends the intellect from without by claiming its ubiquity; 4. Alexander (De intell., C2) criticises Aristoteles’ solution to Atticus’ criticisms and gives an alternative reply to Atticus by accounting for separation in terms of thought processes; 5. Alexander {In Phys.) attacks Atticus’ vehicle-theory on the grounds that it does not resolve the question at all and alludes indirectly to his previous solution. Thus, we may conclude that the De intellectu is an authentic work of Alexander, but an earlier one than the commentary on the Physics.

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The commentators: their identity and their background, 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)

Title	The commentators: their identity and their background
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1996
Published in	Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima"
Pages	35-51
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)

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L'arrière-plan néoplatonicien de l'École d'Athènes de Raphaël, 1996
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Hoffmann, Philippe (Ed.), Rinuy, Paul-Louis (Ed.), Farnoux, Alexandre (Coll.) (Ed.)

Title	L'arrière-plan néoplatonicien de l'École d'Athènes de Raphaël
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	1996
Published in	Antiquités imaginaires. La référence antique dans l'art occidental, de la Renaissance à nos jours
Pages	143-158
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s)	Hoffmann, Philippe , Rinuy, Paul-Louis , Farnoux, Alexandre (Coll.)
Translator(s)

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Dunamis in "Simplicius", 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Cardullo, R. Loredana (Ed.), Romano, Francesco (Ed.)

Title	Dunamis in "Simplicius"
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1996
Published in	Dunamis nel Neoplatonismo: atti del II Colloquio internazionale del Centro di Ricerca sul Neoplatonismo, Università degli studi di Catania, 6-8 ottobre 1994
Pages	149-172
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)	Cardullo, R. Loredana , Romano, Francesco
Translator(s)

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The writings of the De anima commentators, 1996
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.)

Title	The writings of the De anima commentators
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1996
Published in	Aristotle and Neoplatonism in late antiquity: Interpretations of the "De Anima"
Pages	53-71
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s)	Blumenthal, Henry J.
Translator(s)

So far we have discussed the work of our commentators as if it was simply scholarship and philosophical exposition, whether of their own philosophy or that of Aristotle which most of them held to be fundamen tally the same. There is, however, another aspect of the commentaries which, while not prominent, should not be forgotten. That is the way in which doing such work was an integral part of a life aimed at the greatest possible degree of return to that higher reality from which the commenta tors saw human life as a decline and separation. It is becoming increasingly better understood that for the great majority of Greek philo sophers, philosophy was not only a way of thinking but a way of life.70 The late Neoplatonists seem to have gone even further, and regarded the production of commentaries as a kind of service to the divine, much as a Christian monk who engaged in scholarship would have seen it in that light So we find at the end of Simplicius’ commentary on the De caelo what can only be described as a prayer: ‘Oh lord and artificer of the universe and the simple bodies in it, to you and all that has been brought into being by you I offer this work as a hymn, being eager to see as a revelation the magnitude of your works and to proclaim it to those who are worthy, so that thinking no mean or mortal thoughts about you we may make obeisance to you in accordance with the high place you occupy in respect of all that is produced by you’ (731.25-9). Those who think that ancient philosophy ceased to be of interest some three and a half centuries before these words were written and who may from time to time consult Sim plicius for an opinion on the meaning of an Aristotelian text, are unlikely ever to see these words, or those that come at the end of the commentary on the Enckeiridion (138.22-3). Without them they cannot fully under stand the nature of works beyond whose surface they never penetrate, works whose very composition could be seen as an act of reverence to the gods of paganism. [Conclusion, p. 71]

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Anaxagoras' Other World Revisited, 1996
By: Schofield, Malcom, Algra, Keimpe A. (Ed.), Runia, David T. (Ed.)

Title	Anaxagoras' Other World Revisited
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1996
Published in	Polyhistor. Studies in the history and historiography of ancient philosophy: presented to Jaap Mansfeld on his sixtieth birthday
Pages	3-20
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Schofield, Malcom
Editor(s)	Algra, Keimpe A. , Runia, David T.
Translator(s)

Very short papers are not what his readers most immediately associate with the name of Jaap Mansfeld. But his piece entitled ‘Anaxagoras’ Other World’ runs to less than three full pages of text, and the notes cover only half a page more.1 Perhaps its brevity is one of the reasons for its neglect. Schofield in his light revision of Raven’s chapter on Anaxagoras in The Presocratic Philosophers does not refer to it.2 Nor do more recent articles such as Inwood’s or Furth’s.3 The neglect is unfortunate. Of the difficult text Mansfeld takes as his topic, ‘Anaxagoras’ Other World’ seems to me much the most persuasive account available in the scholarly literature. In what follows I shall advance further considerations in favour of its interpretation of the mysterious ‘other world’, and against some of the alternatives favoured in other quarters. [p. 3]

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Uno stoico di età giustinianea: Simplicio interprete di Epitteto, 1996
By: Conca, Fabrizio (Ed.), Cortassa, Guido

Title	Uno stoico di età giustinianea: Simplicio interprete di Epitteto
Type	Book Section
Language	Italian
Date	1996
Published in	Byzantina Mediolanensia, Atti del V Congresso Nazionale di Studi Bizantini (Milano, 19- 22 ottobre 1994)
Pages	107-116
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Cortassa, Guido
Editor(s)	Conca, Fabrizio
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, 1996
By: Sorabji, Richard, Spawforth, Antony (Ed.), Hornblower, Simon (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1996
Published in	The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Pages	1409-1410
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Editor(s)	Spawforth, Antony , Hornblower, Simon
Translator(s)

Dies ist ein sehr kurzer Eintrag zu Simplicius in The Oxford Classical Dictionary

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PAGE 18 OF 28

Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus, 2016
By: Chiaradonna, Riccardo, Rashed, Marwan, Sedley, David N., Sorabji, Richard (Ed.)

Title	Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry(?) with Fragments of Boethus
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2016
Published in	Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators
Pages	231-262
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Chiaradonna, Riccardo , Rashed, Marwan , Sedley, David N.
Editor(s)	Sorabji, Richard
Translator(s)

Riccardo Chiaradonna has studied Boethus’ downgrading also of universals, again by reference to the Categories ’ defi nition of substance. On this ground, universals are not even a something (a Stoic category, lower than substance). Simplicius tells us: ‘Boethus says fi rst that the universal does not even exist in reality ( einai en hupostasei ), according to Aristotle, and even if it did have any reality, it would not be a something . Aristotle rather said it was in something’. Chiaradonna concludes from a discussion of a number of passages that Boethus thought of a universal as nothing but a collection of particulars. Th e recently recovered fragments of Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Categories in Chapter 8 below, speaking of animal, similarly say ‘none of these generic items is a subject’. The text of Porphyry translated and analysed in this chapter includes among others a further new fragment on Boethus’ treatment of division by differentia at 14,4–15. Rashed has drawn attention to yet another way in which Boethus downgrades something of Aristotle’s: the priority of Aristotle’s fi rst fi gure of syllogism. Or at least he puts Aristotle’s figures all on the same level. The figures are Aristotle’s patterns of valid argument concerning all, some, or none of a class of things, and Aristotle thought that certain arguments in the second and third figures had to be proved equivalent to certain arguments in the fi rst, before they could be seen as valid. I shall discuss below the resumption of the debate in the fourth century by the commentator Themistius. Rashed has translated Th emistius’ text from the superior of two Arabic manuscripts into French. It is to be hoped that Chiaradonna and Rashed, two of the translators of the fragment in Chapter 8, will carry out their plan of compiling the fi rst collection of fragments of Boethus, of which Michael Griffin has already noticed around fifty. [introduction]

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Religion et philosophie chez Simplicius, 2004
By: Hadot, Pierre, Hadot, Ilsetraut, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.), Hadot, Pierre (Ed.)

Title	Religion et philosophie chez Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2004
Published in	Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : l'enseignement du Manuel d'Épictète et son commentaire néoplatonicien
Pages	183-211
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hadot, Pierre , Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s)	Hadot, Ilsetraut , Hadot, Pierre
Translator(s)

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Richtungen und Schulen im Neuplatonismus, 1910
By: Praechter, Karl, Robert, Carl (Ed.)

Title	Richtungen und Schulen im Neuplatonismus
Type	Book Section
Language	German
Date	1910
Published in	Genethliakon
Pages	105-156
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Praechter, Karl
Editor(s)	Robert, Carl
Translator(s)

[Conclusion, p. 155]: .Ich  fasse  zusammen.  Die  Richtungen  innerhalb  des  Neuplato
nismus  und  ihre  Verteilung  auf  die  Schulen  ergibt  folgende  Über
sicht:
I.  Die  Grundlegung  des  Systems.  Plotin  und  Porphyrios.
II.  Die  spekulative  Richtung.  Höchste  Ausbildung  der  Meta
physik,  gestützt  auf  Platon  vermittelst  eines  von  lamblich  begrün
deten  exegetischen  Verfahrens:al  Die  syrische  Schule:  lamblich,  Theodoros  von  Asine,  De- 
xippos,b)  die  athenische  Schule:  Plutarch,  Syrian,  Proklos,  Damaskios, 
Simplikios  u.  a.
III.  Die  religiös-theurgische  Richtung:  die  pergamenischc  Schule: 
Aidesios,  Chrysanthios,  Eusebios,  Maximus,  Julian,  Eunapios  u.  a.
IV.  Die  gelehrte  Richtung:
a)  Die  Alexandriner:  Hypatia,  Hierokles,  Hermeias,  Ammonios, 
Asklepiodotos,  Olympiodor,  Philoponos,  Elias,  David  u.  a.
b)  Die  Neuplatoniker  des  Westens:  Macrobius,  Chalcidius, 
Boöthius.

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Roman Aristotle, 1997
By: Barnes, Jonathan (Ed.), Griffin, Miriam (Ed.), Barnes, Jonathan

Title	Roman Aristotle
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1997
Published in	Philosophia togata II: Plato and Aristotle at Rome
Pages	1-69
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	, Barnes, Jonathan
Editor(s)	Barnes, Jonathan , Griffin, Miriam
Translator(s)

hen  Theophrastus  died,  his  library,  which  included  the  library  of 
Aristotle,  was  carried  off to  the  Troad.  His  successors  found  nothing 
much  to  read;  the  Lyceum  sank  into  a  decline;  and  Peripatetic  ideas 
had little influence on the course of Hellenistic philosophy.  It was only 
with the rediscovery of the library that Aristotelianism revived— and it 
revived  in  Italy.  For  the  library'  went  from  the  Troad  to  Athens—  
whence,  as  part  of Sulla’s  war-booty,  to  Rome.  There  Andronicus  of 
Rhodes produced the  ‘Roman edition’  of the  corpus Aristotelicum.  It was 
the  first  complete  and  systematic  version  of Aristotle’s works,  the  first 
publication  in  their  full  form  of the  technical  treatises,  the  first  genu
inely critical  edition  of the  text.  Andronicus’  Roman  edition  caused  a 
sensation.  It  revitalised  the  languishing  Peripatetics.  It  set  off  an 
explosion  of Aristotelian  studies.  It  laid  the  foundation  for  all  subse
quent editions of Aristotle’s works,  including our  modern  texts.  When 
we  read  .Aristotle  we  should  pour  a  libation  to  Andronicus— and  to 
Sulla.That  story  is  the  main  subject  of  the  following  pages.  It  is 
familiar enough;  my argument will  be  laborious;  I  have  nothing 
new to say about it;  and my general conclusions  are  dispiritingly 
sceptical.  But  recent  scholarship  on  the  topic  has  taken  to  the 
bottle of phantasy and stumbled drunkenly from one dogmatism 
to  the  next.  Another  look  at  the  pertinent  texts  may  be  for
given— and  in  any  event  the  story  is  a  peach. [p. 1]

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Science théologique et foi selon le commentaire de Simplicius au De Caelo d’Aristote, 2014
By: Hoffmann, Philippe, Coda, Elisa (Ed.), Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia (Ed.)

Title	Science théologique et foi selon le commentaire de Simplicius au De Caelo d’Aristote
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	2014
Published in	De l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge. Études de logique aristotélicienne et de philosophie grecque, syriaque, arabe et latine offertes à Henri Hugonnard-Roche
Pages	277-363
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Hoffmann, Philippe
Editor(s)	Coda, Elisa , Martini Bonadeo, Cecilia
Translator(s)

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Self-motion and reflection: Hermias and Proclus on the harmony of Plato and Aristotle on the soul, 2012
By: Menn, Stephen, Horn, Christoph (Ed.), Wilberding, James (Ed.)

Title	Self-motion and reflection: Hermias and Proclus on the harmony of Plato and Aristotle on the soul
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2012
Published in	Neoplatonism and the Philosophy of Nature
Pages	44-67
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Menn, Stephen
Editor(s)	Horn, Christoph , Wilberding, James
Translator(s)

A central puzzle of recent scholarship on late Neoplatonism has been to understand how  what  Richard Sorabji  has called a ‘perfectly  crazy  position', the thesis of die harmony  of  Plato  and  Aristode,  nonetheless  ‘proved  philosophically  fruitful' — 
whereas, for instance, the same philosophers' perfectly crazy thesis of the harmony of Plato and Homer did not. In this chapter, starting from Hermias' commentary on a passage of the Phaedrus which poses a difficulty for harmonization, I hope to shed some light on what the late Neoplatonists were asserting when they asserted the harmony 
of Plato and Aristotle, in general or on some particular issue (here the immortality of soul); on why they were inclined to make such assertions o f harmony, and what they saw themselves as needing to do in order to defend them: and on why,in the process of defending them, they were led to conceptual clarifications which were in some cases of longstanding benefit to the conceptual stoic of philosophy. I  will point to a sur
prising case of such a conceptual benefit resulting from Neoplatonic interpretations of this Pimdtus passage and its parallels in the Timaeus. While my central example will be from Hermias, the themes I am interested in ate not peculiar to him, and I will also 
make use of other late Neoplatonic authors, especially Proclus. Hermias, and Produs, to recall, were both students of Syrianus;at one point in Hermias' commentary 'our companion Proclus' raises an aporia, and ‘the philosopher'— that is, ‘the professor — replies (92,6-10 Couvrcur), which seems to imply that the commentary in general was drawn by Hermias from Syrianus lectures. [Introduction, pp. 44 f.]

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Simplicio, in Cael. 556, 3-560, 10, a margine di Platone, Prm. 135b8-c1. Prolegomeni a una genealogia del parallelism onto-epistemologico, 2022
By: Licciardi, Ivan Adriano, Brisson, Luc (Ed.), Macé, Arnaud (Ed.), Renaut, Olivier (Ed.)

Title	Simplicio, in Cael. 556, 3-560, 10, a margine di Platone, Prm. 135b8-c1. Prolegomeni a una genealogia del parallelism onto-epistemologico
Type	Book Section
Language	Italian
Date	2022
Published in	Plato’s Parmenides: Selected Papers of the XIIth Symposium Platonicum
Pages	517-526
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Licciardi, Ivan Adriano
Editor(s)	Brisson, Luc , Macé, Arnaud , Renaut, Olivier
Translator(s)

Simplicius, in Cael. 556,3-560,10 interprets Cael. III 1, 298b14-24, in which Aristotle criticizes Parmenides and Melissus, who deny coming-to-be and consider it only an apparent phenomenon. On the one hand, Aristotle asserts that the Eleatics realized that the condition for a science of being can be that the latter refers to ungenerated and immobile, and therefore ontologically stable, objects; on the other hand, at the same time, they do not admit any other essence aside from sensible beings. Aristotle concludes by saying that the Eleatics came to believe that generation is only apparent, and that they proceeded on the assumption of the isomorphism between the stability of the object and the incontrovertibility of science itself. All in all, Aristotle has pointed out that the Eleatics mixed physics and metaphysics. Simplicius demonstrates that Aristotle’s criticism is not aimed to refute Parmenides, but to prevent superficial listeners from being misled by the outward aspects of his doctrines, because Parmenides’ investigation is metaphysical and regards the intelligible world. Simplicius quotes Prm. 135b8-c1, where Parmenides, turning towards Socrates, says that whoever denies the theory of ideas, that is the theory that admits eternal entities which exist separately, will be quite at a loss, since there can be no science of the things that always flow, that is of the sensible. This is the reason why Plato, before Simplicius, identifies a theorical continuity between Eleaticsm and his own philosophy, finding in Parmenides a supporter of the onto-epistemological parallelism. In Simplicius’ opinion the historical Parmenides and the platonic Parmenides coincide, so the platonic passage shows that Eleatics were the first philosophers that admitted the principle of the onto-epistemological parallelism. [author's abstract]

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The reader should not approach this volume in order to find a scholarly consensus on any of these questions, but for the clear formulation of a particular problem, or a promising outline of a solution, or an interesting historical connection to other philosophers offered by some of its contributions.\r\n\r\nA good case of the first is Amber D. Carpenter\u2019s paper. Plato\u2019s Socrates wants forms to be separated from sensibles and ontologically independent of them. Parmenides attacks this position by noticing that the separation of forms and sensibles implies a symmetrical relation since forms are separated from sensibles as much sensibles are separated from forms. But the paper explores a further problem: if being separated from sensibles means being independent of them, then sensibles are equally independent of forms. Even if one gives up separation in order to salvage independence, the problem persists in a weakness captured by Parmenides\u2019 \u2018master-slave\u2019 example, which Carpenter explains as follows: \u2018his being a master does depend on someone else\u2019s being a slave \u2013 and so the master (as Hegel observed) depends on his slave\u2019 (p. 249). Of course Plato, as another paper by Kezhou Liu claims, wants to maintain an asymmetrical relation, but none of the papers in Section IV provide compelling evidence from the Parmenides to counter Carpenter\u2019s argument.\r\n\r\nOther contributions explore how certain mistakes in the Parmenides were solved in other dialogues. For instance, Notomi Noburu examines why the dialogues after the Parmenides abandoned the form of Similarity (homoion) in favor of the form of Sameness (tauton). The answer is that a relation of similarity between forms and sensibles ends up generating a regress. Francisco J. Gonzalez argues that the notion of the third (to triton), which is discussed at 155e\u2013157b (sometimes called the third deduction, usually taken as an appendix to the first two), is pivotal in solving the antinomies of the Parmenides. According to this paper, this notion encompasses any two opposed things and transcends them, thus giving a conceptual basis for various \u2018thirds\u2019 in the Philebus, the Sophist, and the Timaeus. B\u00e9atrice Lienemann explores the predication of forms. This paper adopts Meinwald\u2019s distinction between two types of predication and argues that predication in relation to the thing itself (pros heauto) expresses the essential property of such a thing (e.g. the form of human being is rationality). However, it should not be confused with the necessary properties, such as identity, that belong to all forms. Lienemann then explores the Phaedo and the Sophist to confirm that Plato indeed employs something close to the distinction between the essential and necessary properties.\r\n\r\nAs for the historical part, two papers stand out. Mathilde Br\u00e9mond gives good textual evidence to show that the second part of the Parmenides examines pairs of contradictory claims leading to impossibilities in the way the sophist Gorgias does. In addition, this paper argues that having Gorgias in mind can explain why the second part is neither constructive in its outcomes, nor openly called \u2018dialectics\u2019. The reason is that the argumentation here resembles antilogic. Lloyd P. Gerson\u2019s paper is about the elephant in the room: the Neoplatonic reading of the Parmenides that is mostly ignored throughout the volume. 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Simplicios, commentateur représentatif d’Aristote dans le néoplatonisme tardif, 1981
By: Vamvoukakis, Nicolas, Theodōrakopulos, Iōannēs N. (Ed.)

Title	Simplicios, commentateur représentatif d’Aristote dans le néoplatonisme tardif
Type	Book Section
Language	French
Date	1981
Published in	Proceedings of the World Congress on Aristotle, Thessaloniki August 7-14 1978
Pages	250
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Vamvoukakis, Nicolas
Editor(s)	Theodōrakopulos, Iōannēs N.
Translator(s)

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Simplicius, 1967
By: Lloyd, Antony C., Edwards, Paul (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	1967
Published in	The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Pages	448-449
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Lloyd, Antony C.
Editor(s)	Edwards, Paul
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Online Resources

https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/mtfUR3mKMF1elWE

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Simplicius, 2020
By: Helmig, Christoph, Zalta, Edward N. (Ed.)

Title	Simplicius
Type	Book Section
Language	English
Date	2020
Published in	The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Categories	no categories
Author(s)	Helmig, Christoph
Editor(s)	Zalta, Edward N.
Translator(s)

Simplicius of Cilicia (ca. 480–560 CE), roughly a contemporary of John Philoponus, is without doubt the most important Neoplatonic commentator on Aristotle and one of the two most influential exegetes within the Aristotelian tradition, along with Alexander of Aphrodisias (around 200 CE). Simplicius’ works are an unmatched source for the intellectual traditions that preceded him: Presocratic, Platonic, and especially the Peripatetic tradition. He is also an independent thinker in his own right, with a coherent philosophical agenda. Best known for his tendency to harmonise Plato and Aristotle, he nevertheless criticised Aristotle on several occasions and considered himself a loyal follower of Plato. Writing in an age when Christianity was the dominant religious and political view, Simplicius aimed to show that the Hellenic tradition is not only much older, but also more venerable and more coherent than the Christian tradition. Unimpressed by charges of alleged contradictions among Greek philosophers, Simplicius repeatedly proclaimed that “the ancient wisdom (palaia philosophia) remains unrefuted” (In Phys. 77.11). It is also noteworthy that, like Proclus and other Neoplatonists, Simplicius presents himself as a thinker for whom philosophy and theology form a complete unity. As has frequently been observed, Simplicius’ works, despite their scholarly outlook, have an important spiritual dimension (see §5).

Simplicius’ commentaries have only recently been studied with an eye to his own philosophical views. He was long considered a mere source for Greek philosophy, and, as noted by Baltussen (2010: 714),

Simplicius’ importance as a source for ancient Greek philosophy and science has long overshadowed his contributions as an independent thinker.

Nineteenth-century Quellenforschung was especially interested in his Commentary on the Physics, which was edited in two volumes (Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores/quattuor posteriores, comprising almost 1500 pages) by Hermann Diels; this commentary served as the basis for Diels’ edition of the Doxographi Graeci (Greek Doxographers), which includes the main doctrines on natural philosophy according to ancient doxographical compendia.

One of the aims of this entry is to emphasise that Simplicius’ writings have much more to offer than a mere doxography of his predecessors—but always bearing in mind that it is only possible to appreciate how Simplicius arranges and interprets the material at his disposal by duly attending to his Neoplatonic agenda.

Online Resources

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/simplicius/

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