On Aristotle S Categories

Author : S.Marc Cohen,Gareth B. Matthews
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
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Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780933788

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Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories by S.Marc Cohen,Gareth B. Matthews Pdf

Ammonius, who taught most of the leading sixth-century Neoplatonists, introduced the methods of his own teacher, Proclus, from Athens to Alexandria. These are exemplified in his commentaries: for instance, in the set of ten introductory questions prefixed to this commentary, which became standard. The commentary is interesting for the light it sheds on the religious situation in Alexandria. It used to be said that the Alexandrian Neoplatonist school was allowed to remain open after the Athenian school closed because Ammonius has agreed with the Christian authorities to keep quiet about his religious views. On the contrary, as this commentary shows he freely declared his belief in the Neoplatonist deities. The philosophical problems considered by Ammonius offer a unique insight into Aristotle's Categories. They exercise the mind and deepen understanding of the subject matter. Modern readers would do well to put the same questions to themselves.

Author : Ammonius (Hermiae.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041110912

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On Aristotle's Categories by Ammonius (Hermiae.) Pdf

Author : Barrie Fleet,Frans de Haas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
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Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780938929

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 5-6 by Barrie Fleet,Frans de Haas Pdf

Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's Categories. One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems.

Author : Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691221595

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The Discovery of Things by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann Pdf

Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties). Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle. The author's argument consists of two main elements. First, a careful investigation of Plato which aims to make sense of the odd-sounding suggestion that things do not show up as things in his ontology. Secondly, an exposition of the theoretical apparatus Aristotle introduces in the Categories--an exposition which shows how Plato's and the Late-Learners' metaphysical pictures cannot help but seem inadequate in light of that apparatus. In doing so, Mann reveals that Aristotle's conception of things--now so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sense--was really a hard-won philosophical achievement. Clear, subtle, and rigorously argued, The Discovery of Things will reshape our understanding of some of Aristotle's--and Plato's--most basic ideas.

Author : Simplicius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130531101

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On Aristotle's "Categories 1-4" by Simplicius Pdf

"Simplicius starts with a survey of previous commentators and an introductory set of questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and Aristotle as in harmony in most things."-- Publisher description.

Author : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015055115342

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On Aristotle Categories 7-8 by Simplicius (of Cilicia.) Pdf

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Author : S. Strange
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780934327

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Porphyry: On Aristotle Categories by S. Strange Pdf

Porphyry (AD 232/3 - C.305) is of crucial importance for the history of Aristotelian studies. Born in Tyre and a student of Plotinus in Rome, he later defended Aristotle's Categories against Plotinus, arguing that they were entirely compatible with Platonism. His intervention was decisive: the Categories became a basic textbook of logic for all subsequent Neoplatonist teaching and influenced both the Arabic and Western Traditions. Boethius drew heavily on Porphyry's treatment. The full commentary is lost, but a shorter version survives and is translated here.

Author : John Duns Scotus
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813226149

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Questions on Aristotle's Categories by John Duns Scotus Pdf

This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin commentaries on Aristotle's Categories, Scotus's Questions is one of the few commentaries on the Categories written in the thirteenth century covering all of Aristotle's text, including the often neglected post-praedicamenta, and the only complete Latin commentary available in English. Moreover, unlike many of the commentaries, Scotus's text is one of the last commentaries to be written before the nominalist reduction of the categories to substance and quality. The question format allows Scotus a great deal of liberty to discuss the categories in detail, as well as matters that are only remotely raised by the text. Altogether, the forty-four questions cover the following subjects: questions 1-4 are prolegomena to the work itself and raise the question of its subject matter as well as whether there can be a science of the categories; questions 5-8 deal with equivocals, univocals, and denominatives; questions 9-11 discuss Aristotle's two rules regarding predication and the sufficiency of the categories; questions 12-36 discuss the four main categories treated by Aristotle, namely, substance, quantity, relation, and quality; and the remaining eight questions discuss the post-praedicamenta.

Author : Michael James Griffin
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198724735

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Aristotle's Categories in the Early Roman Empire by Michael James Griffin Pdf

This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's 'Categories'. It reconstructs fragments of the earliest commentaries on the treatise, and illuminates their arguments for Aristotle's approach to logic as the foundation of higher education.

Author : Dexippus (The Platonist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076001006944

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On Aristotle's Categories by Dexippus (The Platonist) Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368431334

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The Categories by Aristotle Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226921853

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Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle Pdf

The “groundbreaking translation” of the foundational text of Western political thought, now in a revised and expanded edition (History of Political Thought). Aristotle’s masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. Carnes Lord’s lucid translation helped raise scholarly interest in the work and has served as the standard English edition for decades. Widely regarded as the most faithful to both the original Greek and Aristotle’s distinctive style, it is also written in clear, contemporary English. This new edition of the Politics retains and adds to Lord’s already extensive notes, clarifying the flow of Aristotle’s argument and identifying literary and historical references. A glossary defines key terms in Aristotle’s philosophical-political vocabulary. Lord has also made revisions to problematic passages throughout the translation in order to enhance both its accuracy and its readability. He has also substantially revised his introduction for the new edition, presenting an account of Aristotle’s life in relation to political events of his time; the character and history of his writings and of the Politics in particular; his overall conception of political science; and his impact on subsequent political thought from antiquity to the present. Further enhancing this new edition is an up-to-date selected bibliography.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015000653728

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Aristotle's Categories and Propositions (De Interpretatione) by Aristotle Pdf

Author : F.C. Brentano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400981898

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The Theory of Categories by F.C. Brentano Pdf

This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and 1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's text. These notes have been included, with some slight omissions, in the present edition; the bibliographical references have been brought up to date. Brentano's approach to philosophy is unfamiliar to many contemporay readers. I shall discuss below certain fundamental points which such readers are likely to find the most difficult. I believe that once these points are properly understood, then what Brentano has to say will be seen to be of first importance to philosophy. THE PRIMACY OF THE INTENTIONAL To understand Brentano's theory of being, one must realize that he appeals to what he calls inner perception for his paradigmatic uses of the word "is". For inner perception, according to Brentano, is the source of our knowledge of the nature of being, just as it is the source of our knowledge of the nature of truth and of the nature of good and evil. And what can be said about the being of things that are not apprehended in inner perception can be understood only by analogy with what we are able to say about ourselves as thinking subjects.

Author : Lloyd A. Newton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004167520

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Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories by Lloyd A. Newton Pdf

The contributors to this volume cover a wide range of philosophers, from Simplicius to John Wyclif, and philosophical problems, including: the harmony of Platonism and Aristotelianism; the relationship between logic, and metaphysics; the number of categories; and realism vs. nominalism.