Simpliciusβ commentary on Aristotleβs Categoriesβ is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and s
Simplicius : on Aristotle categories 1-4
β Scribed by Chase, Michael; of Cilicia. Simplicius
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press;Bloomsbury Academic
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 201
- Series
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Preface Introduction Textual Emendations TRANSLATION Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index
β¦ Subjects
Aristotle. -- Categoriae. -- 1-4. Simplicius, -- of Cilicia. Categories (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800. Categoriae (Aristotle) Categories (Philosophy)
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, etc. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred Pla
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 stresse
Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotleβs Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotleβs Categories, but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresse
In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined.