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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Metaphysics 1

Author : E.W. Dooley

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 24,4 MB

Release : 2014-04-10

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1780933630

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Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on Metaphysics 1-5 is the most substantial commentary on the Metaphysics to have survived from antiquity. The commentary on book 1 has the further interest that over half of it is devoted to Aristotle's discussion of Plato. Aristotle's battery of objectives to the theory of Ideas is spelled out with fragmentary quotations and paraphrases from four of Aristotle's lost works, and we are given an extended account of Plato's 'unwritten doctrines' according to which the Ideas are numbers, namely the One and Indefinite Dyad. The deliberations for and against the theory of Ideas recorded by Alexander are more detailed than anything in Plato's dialogues and tell us more than any other source how they were conceived in Plato's most developed theory.



Commentary on Aristotle, ›Metaphysics‹ (Books I–III)

Author : Alexander of Aphrodisias

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 462 pages

File Size : 21,16 MB

Release : 2021-12-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 3110731320

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This is the first of a two-volume edition of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The new edition, which includes a philosophical and philological introduction, as well as notes to textcritical issues, is based on a critical evaluation of the entire manuscript tradition of the commentary. It also takes into account its indirect tradition and the Latin translation of Juan Ginès Sepúlveda.



On Aristotle Metaphysics 4

Author : Alexander (of Aphrodisias.)

Publisher : Bristol Classical Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 46,16 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Literary Collections

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'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12

Author : Fred D. Miller, Jr.

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 10,74 MB

Release : 2022-11-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1350185620

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Preface -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The place of Book 12 in Aristotle's Metaphysics -- 2. Who wrote the commentary on Book 12? -- 3. Critical assessments of Ps.-Alexander -- 4. Ps.-Alexander's interpretation of Metaphysics 12 -- 5. Sources of Ps.-Alexander's commentary on Metaphysics 12 Textual Emendations Translation Notes -- Appendix I: Freudenthal's Comparison of the Two Alexanders -- Appendix II: Comparison of Ps.-Alexander's Readings with the Aristotle Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- English-Greek Glossary -- Greek-English Index -- Index of Passages from Other Works -- Subject Index.



Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Metaphysics 2&3

Author : E.W. Dooley

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 42,44 MB

Release : 2014-04-10

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1780934459

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Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point, but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light. In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out what he sees as the central problems of metaphysics. Alexander's commentary was subsequently used by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their own commentaries, so that Alexander's Aristotelian interpretation can be compared with its rivals.



Commentary on the Metaphysics

Author : Saint Thomas Aquinas

Publisher : Aeterna Press

Page : 1376 pages

File Size : 31,7 MB

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Category : Religion

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When several things are ordained to one thing, one of them must rule or govern and the rest be ruled or governed, as the Philosopher, teaches in the Politics. This is evident in the union of soul and body, for the soul naturally commands and the body obeys. The same thing is true of the soul’s powers, for the concupiscible and irascible appetites are ruled in a natural order by reason. Now all the sciences and arts are ordained to one thing, namely, to man’s perfection, which is happiness. Hence one of these sciences and arts must be the mistress of all the others, and this rightly lays claim to the name wisdom; for it is the office of the wise man to direct others. Aeterna Press







Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" Lambda – New Essays

Author : Christoph Horn

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 27,9 MB

Release : 2016-06-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1501503448

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The treatise known as book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics has become one of the most debated issues of recent scholarship. Aristotle adresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Furthermore, the importance of the text is due to the fact that it contains an outline of what was traditionally understood as Aristotle’s theology.



Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Metaphysics 5

Author : E.W. Dooley

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 30,20 MB

Release : 2014-04-22

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1780934513

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Aristotle was a systematic writer who often cross-referred to the definitions of terms given elsewhere in his work. Book 5 of the Metaphysics is important because it consists of definitions of the main uses of key terms in Aristotle's philosophy, and it is extremely valuable to have a commentary on this important text by Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading commentator of his school. Alexander provides a detailed commentary on all of the thirty terms analysed in Book 5, weighing alternative interpretations of what Aristotle says one against another, defending Peripatetic views against actual and possible criticisms, and attempting to integrate what is said in Book 5 into the context of the Metaphysics as a whole.