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Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 13-14 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 13-14 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Until the launch of this series in 1985, the 15,000 volumes of the
ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200
and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek
philosophical writings not translated into English or other
European languages. Syrianus, originally from Alexandria, moved to
Athens and became the head of the Academy there after the death of
Plutarch of Athens. Syrianus attacked Aristotle in his commentary
on Books 13 and 14 of the "Metaphysics," just as his pupil Proclus
was to do later in his commentaries on Plato. This is because in
"Metaphysics" 13-14, Aristotle himself was being thoroughly
polemical towards Platonism, in particular against the Academic
doctrine of Form-numbers and the whole concept of separable number.
In reply, Syrianus gives an account of mathematical number and of
geometrical entities, and of how all of these are processed in the
mind, which was to influence Proclus and all subsequent
Neoplatonists.
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