Aristotle re-interpreted : new findings on seven hundred years of the ancient commentators
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Aristotle re-interpreted : new findings on seven hundred years of the ancient commentators
（Ancient commentators on Aristotle）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
- : PB
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [595]-623) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume presents collected essays – some brand new, some republished, and others newly translated – on the ancient commentators on Aristotle and showcases the leading research of the last three decades. Through the work and scholarship inspired by Richard Sorabji in his series of translations of the commentators started in the 1980s, these ancient texts have become a key field within ancient philosophy. Building on the strength of the series, which has been hailed as 'a scholarly marvel', 'a truly breath-taking achievement' and 'one of the great scholarly achievements of our time' and on the widely praised edited volume brought out in 1990 (Aristotle Transformed) this new book brings together critical new scholarship that is a must-read for any scholar in the field.
With a wide range of contributors from across the globe, the articles look at the commentators themselves, discussing problems of analysis and interpretation that have arisen through close study of the texts. Richard Sorabji introduces the volume and himself contributes two new papers. A key recent area of research has been into the Arabic, Latin and Hebrew versions of texts, and several important essays look in depth at these. With all text translated and transliterated, the volume is accessible to readers without specialist knowledge of Greek or other languages, and should reach a wide audience across the disciplines of Philosophy, Classics and the study of ancient texts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Seven Hundred Years of Commentary and the Sixth Century Diffusion to other Cultures
Richard Sorabji
1. The Texts of Plato and Aristotle in the First Century BCE: Andronicus’ Canon
Myrto Hatzimichali
2. Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology
Marwan Rashed
3. The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free Will Problem and the Role of Alexander
Susanne Bobzien
4. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Particulars and the Stoic Criterion of Identity
Marwan Rashed
5. Themistius and the Problem of Spontaneous Generation
Devin Henry
6. Spontaneous Generation and its Metaphysics in Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12
Yoav Meyrav
7. The Neoplatonic Commentators on ‘Spontaneous’ Generation
James Wildberding
8. A Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry? with Fragments of Boethus
Riccardo Chiaradonna, Marwan Rashed, and David Sedley
9. The Purpose of Porphyry’s Rational Animals: A Dialectical Attack on the Stoics in On Abstinence from Animal Food
G. Fay Edwards
10. Universals Transformed in the Commentators on Aristotle
Richard Sorabji
11. Iamblichus’ Noera Theôria of Aristotle’s Categories
John Dillon
12. Proclus’ Defence of the Timaeus against Aristotle: A Reconstruction of a Lost Polemical Treatise
Carlos Steel
13. Smoothing over the Differences: Proclus and Ammonius on Plato’s Cratylus and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione
R. M. van den Berg
14. Dating of Philoponus’ Commentaries on Aristotle and of his Divergence from his Teacher Ammonius
Richard Sorabji
15. John Philoponus’ Commentary on the Third Book of Aristotle’s De Anima, Wrongly Attributed to Stephanus
Pantelis Golitsis
16. Mixture in Philoponus: An Encounter with a Third Kind of Potentiality
Frans A. J. de Haas
17. Gnôstikôs and/or hulikôs: Philoponus’ Accountof the Material Aspects of Sense-Perception
Peter Lautner
18. The Last Philosophers of Late Antiquity in the Arabic Tradition
Peter Adamson
19. Alexander of Aphrodisias versus John Philoponus in Arabic: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Ahmad Hasnawi
20. New Arabic Fragments of Philoponus and their Reinterpretation: Does the World Lack a Beginning in Time or Take no Time to Begin?
Marwan Rashed
21. Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines
Philippe Hoffmann and Pantelis Golitsis
22. A Philosophical Portrait of Stephanus the Philosopher
Mossman Roueché
23. Who Were the Real Authors of the Metaphysics Commentary Ascribed to Alexander and Ps.-Alexander?
Pantelis Golitsis
The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Translations
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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