Aristotle Re-Interpreted

New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators

Buch | Hardcover

688 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-9656-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Sir Richard Sorabji is Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK. He is the world's leading scholar on the commentators on Aristotle and founder and co-editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, published by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of the three sourcebooks on the ancient commentators: The Philosophy of the Comentators, 200–600 AD, vols 1–3.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.8.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1134 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
ISBN-10	1-4725-9656-0 / 1472596560
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-9656-7 / 9781472596567
Zustand	Neuware