By Gen Lloyd Newton
Medieval remark writing has usually been defined as a fashion of "doing philosophy," and never with no cause. a few of the commentaries on Aristotle's "Categories" we now have from this era didn't easily tricky a dialectical workout for education scholars; particularly, they supplied their authors with an remarkable chance to paintings via an important philosophical difficulties, lots of which stay with us at the present time. As such, this special statement culture is necessary not just in its personal correct, but additionally to the background and improvement of philosophy as a whole.The members to this quantity take a clean examine it, analyzing quite a lot of medieval commentators, from Simplicius to John Wyclif, and discussing such concerns because the compatibility of Platonism with Aristotelianism; the impact of Avicenna; the connection among grammar, common sense, and metaphysics; the variety of the types; the prestige of the types as a technology; realism vs. nominalism; and the connection among different types. The individuals are: Michael Chase, Allan again, Bruno Tremblay, Robert Andrews, Paul Symington, Giorgio Pini, Martin Pickave, Todd Bates, Alexander W. corridor, and Alessandro D. Conti.
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31 Accordingly, in his Aš-Šhifā, some parts of which constitute the Avicenna Latinus, Avicenna set out to “comment upon” a great portion of Aristotle’s works, including the whole of the logic, much of the works on the natural sciences, and the Metaphysics. He completed this massive undertaking in but a few years, from 1016–27, if we are to believe the historical testimony—although it is likely that he used some earlier writings as some parts of Aš-Šhifā. In Aš-Šhifā Avicenna has respect but not reverence for Aristotle.
F. W. Zimmermann, al-Fārābī’s commentary and short treatise on Aristotle’s De interpretatione (Oxford, 1991), p. xcii. I have discussed Fārābī’s possible use of an otherwise unattested commentary by Porphyry on the Posterior Analytics in M. Chase “Did Porphyry write a commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics? Albertus Magnus, Fārābī and Porphyry on per se predication,” in P. , Classical Arabic Philosophy: Sources and Reception, London/Turin: Warburg Institute/Nino Aragno (= Warburg Institute Colloquia 11), 2007, 21–38.
Pierre Hadot, Porphyre et Victorinus, I, 91 n. 1; 327–328; J. Bouffartigue & M. Patillon, Porphyre, De l’abstinence, I (Paris 1977), pp. liii–lx; and the further literature cited by R. Majercik, “Porphyry and Gnosticism,” p. 285 & n. 48. , 11, 14–21, vol. I, p. -Ph. Segonds, Introduction to his edition of Proclus’ Commentary In Alc. (Paris 1985), vol. 1, p. xxv. , 10, p. 286, 11; Life of Pythagoras, 18, 83) are cited by Pierre Courcelle, “Le «Connais-toi toi-même» chez les néo-platoniciens grecs,” in Le néoplatonisme.