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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most
comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written,
representing 600 years of criticism. In his Categories, Aristotle
divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories of
Substance, Quantity, Relative, Quality and so on. Simplicius starts
with a survey of previous commentators, and an introductory set of
questions about Aristotle's philosophy and about the Categories in
particular. The commentator, he says, needs to present Plato and
Aristotle as in harmony on most things. Why are precisely ten
categories named, given that Plato did with fewer distinctions? We
have a survey of views on this. And where in the scheme of
categories would one fit a quality that defines a substance - under
substance or under quality? In his own commentary, Porphyry
suggested classifying a defining quality as something distinct, a
substantial quality, but others objected that this would constitute
an eleventh. The most persistent question dealt with here is
whether the categories classify words, concepts, or things.
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