Simplicius: on Aristotle categories 9-15

✍ Scribed by Gaskin, Richard

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Plato's classification into five kinds which included change. In this part of his commentary, Simplicius records the controversy on the six categories which Plotinus rejected: acting, being acted upon, being in a position, when, where, and having on. Plotinus' pupil and editor, Porphyry, defended all s.;Cover; Contents; Introduction; Textual Emendations; Translation; Notes; English-Greek Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Greek-English Index; A; B; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z; Index of Passages; A; E; H; M; P; S.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
English-Greek Glossary
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Greek-English Index
A
B
D
E
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
P
R
S
T
Z
Subject Index
A
B
C
D
E
G
H
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
W
Z
Index of Passages
A
E
H
M
P
S.

✦ Subjects

Categories (Philosophy);;Early works;Electronic books;Aristotle. -- Categoriae. -- 9-15;Categories (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800;Categoriae (Aristotle)