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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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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. Aristotle offers two
definitions, and the second, stricter, one is often cited by his
defenders in order to rule out objections. The second definition of
relative involves the idea of something changing its relationship
through a change undergone by its correlate, not by itself. There
were disagreements as to whether this was genuine change, and
Plotinus discussed whether relatives exist only in the mind,
without being real. The terms used by Aristotle for such
relationships was 'being disposed relatively to something', a term
later borrowed by the Stoics for their fourth category, and perhaps
originating in Plato's Academy. In his discussion of Quality,
Aristotle reports a debate on whether justice admits of degrees, or
whether only the possession of justice does so. Simplicius reports
the further development of this controversy in terms of whether
justice admits a range or latitude (platos). This debate helped to
inspire the medieval idea of latitude of forms, which goes back
much further than is commonly recognised - at least to Plato and
Aristotle.
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