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The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle (Hardcover)
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The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Philosophies
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In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to
intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new
literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these
commentaries were understood chiefly as sources of information for
the masters - Plato and Aristotle - they commented upon. However,
in recent years, it has become increasingly acknowledged that the
commentators themselves - Aspasius, Alexander, Themistius,
Porphyry, Proclus, Philoponus, Simplicius and others - even though
they worked in the Platonist - Aristotelian framework, contributed
to this tradition in original, innovative and significant ways such
that their commentaries are philosophically important sources in
their own right. This book provides the first systematic
introduction to the 'philosophy' of the commentators: their way of
doing philosophy and the kind of philosophical problems they found
interesting.Although there was no philosophy of the commentators in
the sense of a definite set of doctrines, Tuominen shows how the
commentary format was nevertheless a vehicle for original
philosophical theorizing and argues convincingly that the
commentators should take their place alongside other philosophers
of antiquity in the history of western philosophy.
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