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Cosmic Justice in Anaximander , 1991
By: Engmann, Joyce
Title Cosmic Justice in Anaximander
Type Article
Language English
Date 1991
Journal Phronesis
Volume 36
Issue 1
Pages 1-25
Categories no categories
Author(s) Engmann, Joyce
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
In what may be our oldest surviving fragment of Greek literary prose [DK 12A9, In Phys. 24.13 ff.], Anaximander refers to the redress of injustice among parties alternately injured and injuring. Since the parties in question are impersonal entities, and the redress is a cosmic process, Simplicius, probably repeating a remark of Theophrastus, comments on Anaximander's mode of expression as 'rather poetical'. What in plain terms was the meaning of the metaphor? In this paper I wish to look again at what Viastos has described as the most controversial text in Presocratic philosophy. [introduction, p. 1]

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The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories, 1991
By: Hadot, Ilsetraut, Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title The Role of the Commentaries on Aristotle in the Teaching of Philosophy according to the Prefaces of the Neoplatonic Commentaries on the Categories
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 175-189
Categories no categories
Author(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
n 19671 had only just begun to study Simplicius’ commentary on Epictetus’ Enchiridion, and I had had at that time my first few doubts about whether Praechter’s views on the dogmatic position of Alexandrian Neo­ platonism were well founded.2 Praechter had at least formulated these views in the form of hypotheses, but despite his circumspection, they had quickly become unassailable certainties for historians, universally admired and accepted for over fifty years. It was just at this point that I came across the contribution of A. C. Lloyd, who dared to say3 that Praechter had misread or read too hastily the passages in Simplicius’ commentary on Epictetus which referred to first principles, on which Praechter largely based his theory. It was Lloyd again, in the same paper,4 who put historians of philosophy on their guard against the tendency (likewise deriving from Praechter) to minimize, or even to refuse to acknowledge, the importance of the fact that for a long time all the Neoplatonists believed in a fundamental agreement between Plato’s philosophy and Aristotle’s. In my book Le Problème du néo­ platonisme alexandrin: Hiéroclès et Simplicius’ I simply followed the track marked out by Lloyd. And even now, in the translation with com­ mentary of Simplicius’ commentary on the Categories which has been undertaken under my editorship,5 61 am attempting to carry further the critique of Praechter’s hypotheses which Lloyd began.This will also be the case in the present paper, which will bring out some of the results which might be reached by working on the Neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories. [pp. 175 f.]

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Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy, 1991
By: Blumenthal, Henry J., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Nous pathêtikos in later Greek philosophy
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 191-205
Categories no categories
Author(s) Blumenthal, Henry J.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
In 1911 H. Kurfess obtained a doctorate from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on the history of the interpretation of nous poietikos and nous pathetikos} Notoriously the expression nous poietikos never occurs in the text of Aristotle, but its derivation from De mim. 430*11-12 is an easy step, and when philosophers and commentators subsequently discuss it, we know what it is that they are talking about, even if its nature and status remained, and remain, controversial. Similarly nouspathetikos, or rather ho pathetikos nous, occurs only once in the pages of Aristotle, but appears often, if less frequently than nous poietikos, in the texts of his successors and interpreters. In its case, however, though the expression occurs in Aristotle’s De anima, its reference is unclear. To aggravate matters, nous pathetikos quite often appears in his successors in contexts which seem to have nothing to do with the intellect. Yet while nous poietikos has generated an enormous literature from the ancient world up until today, the phrase nous pathetikos has received nothing like the attention of its partner. This paper will examine some of its uses in both commentators and Neo- platonist philosophers in the hope of explaining its appearance and clarifying its meaning. [Introduction, p. 191]

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Aristotle’s Treatment of the Doctrine of Parmenides, 1991
By: Kerferd, George B., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Aristotle’s Treatment of the Doctrine of Parmenides
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 1-7
Categories no categories
Author(s) Kerferd, George B.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
[Conclusion, p. 7]: id Aristotle envisage the same criticism as this of Parmenides? Some help here may be derived from a consideration of what Aristotle says in Metaph. i,986bi8-987a2. Aristotle clearly felt that one of his own greatest discoveries was the need for Matter as a substrate to explain how what is one in definition can come to appear or be seen as many in experience. It is perhaps with this in mind that he proceeds to speak in praise of Parmenides’ insight and declares of him that claiming that besides the existent nothing non-existent exists, he thinks that of necessity one thing exists, viz. the existent and nothing else ... But being forced to follow the observed facts, and supposing the existence of that which is one in definition, but more than one according to our sensations, he now posits two causes and two principles calling them hot and cold, i.e. fire and earth; of these he ranges the hot with the existent, and the other with the non­ existent. (Trans. W. D. Ross) It should, I suggest, be apparent that this fits perfectly with what Aristotle says in the De caelo and with Simplicius’ approach. It may even in addition be a correct account of what Parmenides was saying, though now rephrased in Aristotle’s own language. But this is indeed another question.

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A propos de la biographie de Simplicius, 1991
By: Van Riet, Simone
Title A propos de la biographie de Simplicius
Type Article
Language French
Date 1991
Journal Revue philosophique de Louvain
Volume 83
Pages 506-514
Categories no categories
Author(s) Van Riet, Simone
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Known for his adherence to the Neoplatonic School of Athens, Simplicius represents the intellectual lineage that blended Plotinus' metaphysics with oriental mysteries and rites, tracing its roots back to the ancient Platonic Academy. His journey also intersects with the evolution of philosophy in Alexandria, known for its leanings towards natural studies and empirical sciences. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, Simplicius lacks a dedicated biographer, necessitating careful historical reconstruction of his life. A notable event in his life was the closure of the Neoplatonic School of Athens in 529, pushing Simplicius and others to Persia, only to face disappointment and eventual return due to a peace treaty. While his commentaries on Aristotle's treatises form the main body of his works, this study argues for a deeper recognition of Simplicius and his fellow Aristotelian commentators as distinctive thinkers in the history of philosophy, whose biographies merit thorough exploration. [introduction]

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Simplicio, Isnardi, la logica e il contesto, 1991
By: Mignucci, Mario
Title Simplicio, Isnardi, la logica e il contesto
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1991
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 46
Issue 4
Pages 737-751
Categories no categories
Author(s) Mignucci, Mario
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3, 1991
By: Sheppard, Anne D., Blumenthal, Henry J. (Ed.), Robinson, Howard (Ed.)
Title Phantasia and Mental Images: Neoplatonist Interpretations of De Anima, 3.3
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 1991
Published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary volume: Aristotle and the Later Tradition
Pages 165-173
Categories no categories
Author(s) Sheppard, Anne D.
Editor(s) Blumenthal, Henry J. , Robinson, Howard
Translator(s)
Aristotle’s treatment of phantasia in De anitna, 3 . 3 , is both suggestive and tantalizing: suggestive because Aristotle there seems to be trying to describe a capacity of the mind which cannot be identified either with sense-perception or with rational thought, a capacity which, if it is not the same as what we call ‘imagination’, at least has a good deal in common with it; but tantalizing because the chapter flits from one point to another and is hard to interpret as a consistent whole. There have been a number of recent attempts to make sense of the chapter and relate it to Aristotle’s other remarks about phantasia elsewhere.1 I shall briefly discuss three of these, which all make some use of modern discussions of imagination; in all three cases the way they see Aristotle’s position is affected by the account of imagination which they themselves favour. [p. 165]

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Postérité de l’être. Simplicius interprète de Parménide, 1991
By: Stevens, Annick
Title Postérité de l’être. Simplicius interprète de Parménide
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1991
Publication Place Bruxelles
Publisher Ousia
Categories no categories
Author(s) Stevens, Annick
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Stevens sets out to clarify Parmenides' philosophy with an analysis of Simplicius' presentation of his fragments and the related contextual exposition. This is a complex task, as twelve centuries separate Simplicius from the Presocratics, and, although generous beyond his needs in the length of Eleatic quotations, Simplicius is only too ready to enlist Parmenides as an earlier witness to the Platonic and Neoplatonic interpretations that pervade his commentary on Aristotelian texts. A further complication is that the order imposed by Aristotle's Physics and De Caelo is at variance with the sequence of Eleatic argument. S.'s cahier is much too brief for the subject-matter involved. He has one chapter each on Parmenides' Aletheia and Doxa, sandwiched between a brief introduction and conclusion. Additionally, there is an Appendix, more than half the length of what has preceded, which consists of a translation into French (without the Greek text but with some annotation) of relevant sections from Simplicius' Phys. 28-180, 243-4, and DC 556-60. An Index of the fragments of Parmenides cited in these two works is added, as well as a short bibliography. Interspersed in the text are tables giving Greek words from Simplicius, their French translation, and a brief justification. The point of these is obscure, and, since they are hard to follow in the absence of a continuous text, the result may appear arbitrary. For example, "teleion" at Phys. 29.10 is translated as "parfait," "telos" in the next line as "accomplissement," but "teleutê" further down as "fin."Translation of Eleatic texts in general looks easier in French than English, with 'il' conveniently ambiguous for Greek masculine, neuter, or impersonal subject, and "l’Étant'" and "l’être'" (with and without capitals) for ontological terminology. The main problem with S.'s study is the level of scholarship involved and consequently the readership targeted. There are a number of ways of tackling the subject, none of which S. holds to consistently. One is a straightforward introduction to reading Parmenides' lines in their Simplicius context, and sometimes S. is writing in this way. The first chapter, for example, starts with a straightforward narrative of the 'signs' for the Aletheia, and the second with the usual listing of different views on the status of the Doxa. Simplicius' position on both these topics is given, but without any explanation of the Neoplatonic terms (like 'Etant-Un') that are used. Secondly, there is a scholarly monograph struggling to emerge. The reader can suddenly be involved in a sophisticated comparison of Parmenides' concept of "ateleston" with "apeiron" in Melissus, or in textual exegesis, or in studying the relevance of the first two hypotheses of Plato's Parmenides, or the exact meaning of "apatêlon" in B 8.52. But thirdly what is needed, as S. indicates in the subtitle, is a full and detailed discussion of Simplicius as an interpreter of Parmenides. This could usefully tackle Simplicius' reasons for finding Parmenides compatible with both Plato and Aristotle, the particular readings (or re-readings) of all four ancient authors that might be involved in the exercise, what traps might thereby be set in the path of those who are tracking the original Parmenides, and what implications would then arise for Simplicius' treatment of other Presocratics. All this is yet to be done. (Review by M. R. Wright)

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Simplicius. Commentaire sur les Catégories. Traduction commentée sous la direction de Ilsetraut Hadot. Fascicule III: Préambule aux catégories; Commentaire au premier chapitre des catégories (p. 21 - 40, 13 Kalbfleisch), 1990
By: Simplicius, Hadot, Ilsetraut (Ed.),
Title Simplicius. Commentaire sur les Catégories. Traduction commentée sous la direction de Ilsetraut Hadot. Fascicule III: Préambule aux catégories; Commentaire au premier chapitre des catégories (p. 21 - 40, 13 Kalbfleisch)
Type Edited Book
Language French
Date 1990
Publication Place Leiden - New York - København - Köln
Publisher Brill
Series Philosophia antiqua. A Series of studies on ancient Philosophy
Volume 51
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s) Hadot, Ilsetraut
Translator(s) Hoffmann, Philippe(Hoffmann, Philippe ) .
The French translation with commentary, the first in a modern language, allows historians of philosophy access to a fundamental work for the understanding of medieval and modern thought. They could also explore more easily the great variety of information contained in the commentary of Simplicius on the history of the exegis of the Catégories of Aristotle, and more generally on the history of comparative philosophy of Simplicius. They will discover some important aspects in the actual thought of Simplicius, which so far has hardly been explored.

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Recherches sur le néoplatonisme après Plotin, 1990
By: Saffrey, Henri Dominique
Title Recherches sur le néoplatonisme après Plotin
Type Monograph
Language French
Date 1990
Publication Place Paris
Publisher Vrin
Series Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique
Categories no categories
Author(s) Saffrey, Henri Dominique
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis De caelo Commentaria, 1894
By: Heiberg, Johan Ludvig (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis De caelo Commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1894
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 7
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria, 1882
By: Diels, Hermann (Ed.), Simplicius, Diels, Hermann
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria
Type Monograph
Language Greek
Date 1882
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca
Volume 9
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius , Diels, Hermann
Editor(s) Diels, Hermann
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria, 1996
By: Diels, Hermann (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1996
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimers
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 10
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Diels, Hermann
Translator(s)

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Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima Commentaria, 1882
By: Hayduck, Michael (Ed.), Simplicius
Title Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima Commentaria
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1882
Publication Place Berlin
Publisher Reimer
Series Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
Volume 11
Categories no categories
Author(s) , Simplicius
Editor(s) Hayduck, Michael
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Simplicii magni doctoris cognomento Commentationes accuratissimae in Praedicamenta Aristotelis. Quibus postrema etiam sex illa fusius praedicamenta explicantur quae strictim nobis Aristoteles velut per transennam præteriens ostendit: nuper diligentius in latinam linguam translatæ, opus Sebastiano Foscareno, 1543
By: Simplicius ,
Title Simplicii magni doctoris cognomento Commentationes accuratissimae in Praedicamenta Aristotelis. Quibus postrema etiam sex illa fusius praedicamenta explicantur quae strictim nobis Aristoteles velut per transennam præteriens ostendit: nuper diligentius in latinam linguam translatæ, opus Sebastiano Foscareno
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1543
Publication Place Venetiis
Publisher apud Hieronymum Scotum
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius
Editor(s)
Translator(s) Foscareno, Sebastiano(Foscareno, Sebastiano)

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Simplicii peripatetici acutissimi Commentaria in octo libros Aristotelis de physico audito. Nunquam antae excusa. Lucillo Philaltheo interprete, 1544
By: Filalteo, Lucillo, Simplicius
Title Simplicii peripatetici acutissimi Commentaria in octo libros Aristotelis de physico audito. Nunquam antae excusa. Lucillo Philaltheo interprete
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 1544
Publication Place Parisiis
Publisher Apud Ioannem Roigny
Categories no categories
Author(s) Filalteo, Lucillo , Simplicius
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Simplicii philosophi acutissimi Commentaria in quatuor libros Aristotelis De caelo, 1544
By: Simplicius , von Moerbeke, Wilhelm
Title Simplicii philosophi acutissimi Commentaria in quatuor libros Aristotelis De caelo
Type Monograph
Language Latin
Date 1544
Publication Place Venetiis
Publisher Apud Hieronymum Scotum
Categories no categories
Author(s) Simplicius , von Moerbeke, Wilhelm
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Simplicio, Isnardi, la logica e il contesto, 1991
By: Mignucci, Mario
Title Simplicio, Isnardi, la logica e il contesto
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1991
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 46
Issue 4
Pages 737-751
Categories no categories
Author(s) Mignucci, Mario
Editor(s)
Translator(s)

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Simplicio, gli stoici e le categorie, 1986
By: Isnardi Parente, Margherita
Title Simplicio, gli stoici e le categorie
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1986
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 41
Issue 1
Pages 3-18
Categories no categories
Author(s) Isnardi Parente, Margherita
Editor(s)
Translator(s)
Simplicius, In Arist. Categ.,165, 32 sqq. Kalbfleisch, give us an example of the Stoic theory of the categories which seems to be inconsistent with the better known chrysippean theory of the ‘quadri¬partite division’. In Simplicius’ statement we find a first diaeresis (kath’hautá/prós ti) and a second division or hypodiaeresis (‘differentiated relations’ and ‘simple dispositions’ or correlations). Such a division follows a rather platonic-academic schematisms, and — as in Xenocratean or Hermodorean classification of being — the concept of relation occupies in it a privilegiate place. Instead of speaking simply of a continuity between Academy and Stoa, we can more probably hypothize a change in the development of the Stoic theory. The concept of ‘relation’ has an increas¬ing importance after Chrysippus, with the elaboration, by Antipater of Tarsus, of the concept of héxis and hektón; whereas the concept of quality — which is regarded, from Zeno to Chrysippus, as a corporeal entity, substratum, pneuma — is profoundly altered by the introduction of the new concept of ‘incorporeal qualities’. Perhaps later Stoics approached Academic thought in their attempt of a new kind of division, in order to find a better ontological status for ‘relation’ and ‘incorporeity’. [Author's abstract]

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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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In Simplicius\u2019 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. 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The format follows that of its predecessors, in which a selected dialogue (or two) is covered by scholars from diverse research traditions using various interpretative approaches. The published papers are usually shorter notes on specific passages, sometimes growing into longer articles on larger issues, but rarely into a discussion between themselves. The present collection is the largest of its kind (53 papers: 32 in English, 12 in Italian, 4 in German, 3 in French, 2 in Spanish). It examines a particularly difficult dialogue, the Parmenides, from six angles that make up this book\u2019s six thematic sections: (I) the dramatic framework, (II) the influence of earlier philosophers on the Parmenides, (III) Plato\u2019s conception of dialectics, (IV) the critique of the theory of forms, (V) the hypotheses and deductions, and (VI) the influence of the Parmenides on later authors.\r\n\r\nThe Parmenides is a minefield of philosophical questions: how are we to take the dramatic presence of the Eleatics Parmenides and Zeno in terms of the dialogue\u2019s aims and methods? Which of the arguments criticizing the theory of forms, if any, are valid? Do the deductions lead to a genuine impasse or is there some qualified sense in which some of them are productive? And what is the overall purpose of this dialogue: to ridicule the Eleatic monism, to expose the problems surrounding the theory of forms, to solve them, or perhaps to introduce the metaphysics of the One? 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. Gerson shows that Plotinus\u2019 interpretation of the first three hypotheses was not arbitrary, but rather based on a defendable understanding of the One and the need to find a philosophically sound answer to Aristotle\u2019s question \u2018what is ousia?\u2019.\r\n\r\nThe broader value of this volume is that it gives a good representation of the current status quaestionis and provides a number of useful discussions of shorter passages. However, most of its pieces do not formulate a self-standing argument and should be read in conjunction with Cornford\u2019s Plato and Parmenides (1935), Allen\u2019s Plato\u2019s Parmenides (1983), Meinwald\u2019s Plato\u2019s Parmenides (1991), Sayre\u2019s Parmenides\u2019 Lesson (1996), Scolnicov\u2019s Plato\u2019s Parmenides (2003), Rickless\u2019 Plato\u2019s Forms in Transition (2006), and Gill\u2019s Philosophos (2012): the papers assume close familiarity with them. Finally, this volume needed more careful editing: it contains different treatments of Greek (e.g. pp. 183-191 use transliterations, while pp. 193-200 do not); there are typos and missing characters in the text and titles (e.g. \u2018Plato\u2019 Parmenides\u2019 on p. 10) and missing references in the bibliography (e.g. Helmig 2007 and Migliori 2000 from p. 63).","republication_of":null,"online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/BAdPSglZoxI7r9D","translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"is_catalog":0,"in_bibliography":0,"is_inactive":0,"notes":null,"doi_url":null,"book":{"id":1550,"pubplace":"Baden-Baden","publisher":"Academia","series":"","volume":"","edition_no":"","valid_from":null,"valid_until":null}}},"article":null},"sort":["Simplicio, in Cael. 556, 3-560, 10, a margine di Platone, Prm. 135b8-c1. Prolegomeni a una genealogia del parallelism onto-epistemologico"]}

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