Medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Categories
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Medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Categories
（Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 10）
Brill, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-427) and index
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Description
Medieval commentary writing has often been described as a way of "doing philosophy," and not without reason. The various commentaries on Aristotle's Categories we have from this period did not simply elaborate a dialectical exercise for training students; rather, they provided their authors with an unparalleled opportunity to work through crucial philosophical problems, many of which remain with us today. As such, this unique commentary tradition is important not only in its own right, but also to the history and development of philosophy as a whole. The contributors to this volume take a fresh look at it, examining a wide range of medieval commentators, from Simplicius to John Wyclif, and discussing such issues as the compatibility of Platonism with Aristotelianism; the influence of Avicenna; the relationship between grammar, logic, and metaphysics; the number of the categories; the status of the categories as a science realism vs. nominalism; and the relationship between categories.
Table of Contents
Preface ......................................................................................... vii
The Importance of Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories ................................................................................... 1
Lloyd A. Newton
The Medieval Posterity of Simplicius ' Commentary on the Categories: Thomas Aquinas and al-Farabi ............................. 9
Michael Chase
Avicenna The Commentator ...................................................... 31
Allan Back
Albertus Magnus On the Subject of Aristotle's Categories ......... 73
Bruno Tremblay
Interconnected Literal Commentaries on the Categories in the Middle Ages ............................................................................ 99
Robert Andrews
Thomas Aquinas on Establishing the Identity of Aristotle's Categories ............................................................................... 119
Paul Symington
Reading Aristotle's Categories as an Introduction to Logic: Later Medieval Discussions about Its Place in the Aristotelian Corpus ................................................................... 145
Giorgio Pini
Simon of Faversham on Aristotle's Categories and The Scientia Praedicamentorum ....................................................................... 183
Martin Pickave
Duns Scotus's Account of a Propter Quid Science of the Categories ............................................................................... 221
Lloyd A. Newton
Fine-tuning Pini 's Reading of Scotus 's Categories Commentary ........................................................................... 259
Todd Bates
How Is Scotus's Logic Related to His Metaphysics? A Reply to Todd Bates ........................................................... 277
Giorgio Pini
John Buridan : On Aristotle's Categories ....................................... 295
Alexander W. Hall
A Realist Interpretation of the Categories in the Fourteenth Century: The Litteralis sententia super Praedicamenta Aristotelis
of Robert Alyngton ................................................................ 317
Alessandro D. Conti
Thomas Maulevelt's Denial of Substance ................................. 347
Thomas Maulevelt: Quaestiones super Praedicamenta: Quaestio 16 ............................................................................... 358
Robert Andrews
Categories and Universals in the Later Middle Ages ................ 369
Alessandro D. Conti
Bibliography ................................................................................ 411
List of Contributors .................................................................... 429
Index ........................................................................................... 433
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