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Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1-5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts (Hardcover)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1-5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of
universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius,
as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's
Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human
mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material
individual in which it has its being. The work is important for its
own philosophical discussion and for the insight it sheds on its
sources. For considerable portions, On Aristotle Categories 1-5
resembles the wording of an earlier commentary which declares
itself to be an anonymous record taken from the seminars of
Ammonius. Unlike much of Philoponus' later writing, this commentary
does not disagree with either Aristotle or Ammonius, and suggests
the possibility that Philoponus either had access to this earlier
record or wrote it himself. This edition explores these questions
of provenance, alongside the context, meaning and implications of
Philoponus' work. The English translation is accompanied by an
introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography,
glossary of translated terms and a subject index. The latest volume
in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, the edition makes
this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership.
Philoponus was a Christian writing in Greek in 6th century CE
Alexandria, where some students of philosophy were bilingual in
Syriac as well as Greek. In this Greek treatise translated from the
surviving Syriac version, Philoponus discusses the logic of parts
and wholes, and he illustrates the spread of the pagan and
Christian philosophy of 6th century CE Greeks to other cultures, in
this case to Syria. Philoponus, an expert on Aristotle's
philosophy, had turned to theology and was applying his knowledge
of Aristotle to disputes over the human and divine nature of
Christ. Were there two natures and were they parts of a whole, as
the Emperor Justinian proposed, or was there only one nature, as
Philoponus claimed with the rebel minority, both human and divine?
If there were two natures, were they parts like the ingredients in
a chemical mixture? Philoponus attacks the idea. Such ingredients
are not parts, because they each inter-penetrate the whole mixture.
Moreover, he abandons his ingenious earlier attempts to support
Aristotle's view of mixture by identifying ways in which such
ingredients might be thought of as potentially preserved in a
chemical mixture. Instead, Philoponus says that the ingredients are
destroyed, unlike the human and divine in Christ. This English
translation of Philoponus' treatise is the latest volume in the
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this
philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The
translation in each volume is accompanied by an introduction,
comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of
translated terms and a subject index.
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