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Epictetus, His Morals, With Simplicius His Comment. Made English From The Greek: Epictetus, Simplicius Of Cilicia, Stanhope... Epictetus, His Morals, With Simplicius His Comment. Made English From The Greek
Epictetus, Simplicius Of Cilicia, Stanhope George 1660-1728
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Empedoclis Et Parmenidis Fragmenta - Ex Codice Taurinensis Bibliothecae Restituta Et Illustrata: Amedeo Peyron, Amedeo... Empedoclis Et Parmenidis Fragmenta - Ex Codice Taurinensis Bibliothecae Restituta Et Illustrata
Amedeo Peyron, Amedeo Simplicius
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum Libros Quattuor Priores Commentaria (Hardcover): Hermann Simplicius Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum Libros Quattuor Priores Commentaria (Hardcover)
Hermann Simplicius
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simplicii in Libros Aristotelis De Anima Commentaria (Hardcover): Simplicius Simplicii in Libros Aristotelis De Anima Commentaria (Hardcover)
Simplicius
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima commentaria; Volume 11 (Hardcover): Simplicius Of Cilicia, Hayduck Michael Simplicii in libros Aristotelis De anima commentaria; Volume 11 (Hardcover)
Simplicius Of Cilicia, Hayduck Michael; Created by Berlin Akademie der Wissenschaften
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Le Manuel D'epictète - Et Les Commentaires De Simplicius, Volume 2... (Hardcover): Epictetus Le Manuel D'epictète - Et Les Commentaires De Simplicius, Volume 2... (Hardcover)
Epictetus; Andrã© Dacier; Created by Simplicius (De Cilicie -)
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On Aristotle "On the Soul 3.1-5" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "On the Soul 3.1-5" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by H.J. Blumenthal; Translated by H.J. Blumenthal
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "On the Soul" 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five senses to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, whose identity was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas. In his commentary on Aristotle's text, Simplicius insists that the intellect in question is not something transcendental, but the human rational soul. He denies both Plotinus' view that a part of our soul has never descended from uninterrupted contemplation of the Platonic forms, and Proclus' view that our soul cannot be changed in its substance through embodiment. Continuing the debate in Carlos Steel's earlier volume in this series, Henry Blumenthal assesses the authorship of the commentary. He concludes against it being by Simplicius, but not for its being by Priscian. In a novel interpretation, he suggests that if Priscian had any hand in it at all, it might have been as editor of notes from Simplicius' lectures.

On Aristotle "Physics 5-8" (Hardcover): John Philoponus On Aristotle "Physics 5-8" (Hardcover)
John Philoponus; Volume editing by J.O. Urmson; Simplicius; Edited by P. Lettinck
R4,246 Discovery Miles 42 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.

Le Manuel D'epictète - Et Les Commentaires De Simplicius, Volume 1... (Hardcover): Epictetus Le Manuel D'epictète - Et Les Commentaires De Simplicius, Volume 1... (Hardcover)
Epictetus; Andrã© Dacier; Created by Simplicius (De Cilicie -)
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
On Epictetus "Handbook 1-26" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Epictetus "Handbook 1-26" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by Charles Britain, Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The "Enchiridion" or "Handbook" of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle's "Ethics", because it presupposed no knowledge of logic. We thus get a fascinating chance to see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas. The text was relevant to Simplicius because he too, like Epictetus, was teaching beginners how to take the first steps towards eradicating emotion, although he is unlike Epictetus in thinking that they should give up public life rather than acquiesce, if public office is denied them. Simplicius starts from a Platonic definition of the person as rational soul, not body, ignoring Epictetus' further whittling down of himself to just his will or policy decisions. He selects certain topics for special attention in chapters 1, 8, 27 and 31. Things are up to us, despite Fate. Our sufferings are not evil, but providential attempts to turn us from the body. Evil is found only in the human soul. But evil is parasitic (Proclus' term) on good. The gods exist, are provident, and cannot be bought off. With nearly all of this the Stoics would agree, but for quite different reasons, and their own distinctions and definitions are to a large extent ignored. This translation of the "Handbook" is published in two volumes. This is the first, covering chapters 1-26; the second covers chapters 27-53.

On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by Peter Lautner; Aristotle; Translated by J.O. Urmson
R4,239 Discovery Miles 42 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the sixth century AD Simplicius produced detailed commentaries on several of the works of Aristotle, which help in our understanding of the "Physics", and of its interpretation in the ancient world. This is Urmson's translation of Simplicius' commentaries on "Physics 5" in which Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation?; the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognized. Aristotle defines "continuous", "contact" and "next", and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on.

Corollaries of Place and Time (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius Corollaries of Place and Time (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by J.O. Urmson
R4,231 Discovery Miles 42 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas.

On Aristotle "On the Soul 1 and 2, 1-4" (Hardcover): Peter Lautner On Aristotle "On the Soul 1 and 2, 1-4" (Hardcover)
Peter Lautner; Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by J.O. Urmson
R4,242 Discovery Miles 42 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's "On the Soul". It is intended to provide a wider readership with the opportunity to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? The commentary is a source for late Neoplatonist theories of thought and sense perception and provides insight into this area of Aristotle's thought. In this volume the Neoplatonist commentator covers the first half of Aristotle's "On the Soul", comprising Aristotle's survey of his predecessors and his own rival account of the nature of the soul.

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.3-4 (Hardcover): Simplicius Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.3-4 (Hardcover)
Simplicius; Translated by Ian Mueller
R5,267 Discovery Miles 52 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' "Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World." The commentary is published in two volumes: Ian Mueller's previous book in the series, " Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3," and this book on 1.3-4. Philoponus, the Christian, had argued that Aristotle's arguments do not succeed. For all they show to the contrary, Christianity may be right that the heavens were brought into existence by the only divine being and one moment in time, and will cease to exist at some future moment. Simplicius upholds the pagan view that the heavens are eternal and divine, and argues that their eternity is shown by their astronomical movements coupled with certain principles of Aristotle.Until the launch of this series, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constituted the largest corpus of Greek philosophical writings which had not been translated into English or other European languages. There are now over 100 volumes in the series.

On Aristotle "Physics 7" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "Physics 7" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by C. Hagen
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship: for example, in the fourth century BC Eudemus, the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle, left it out of his treatment of the Physics. Now, for the first time, Charles Hagen's lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius' commentary on Book 7, an indispensable tool for the understanding of the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotle's text than the one which survives today.

On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.1-4" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.1-4" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by Jim Hankinson
R4,230 Discovery Miles 42 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In chapter 1 of "On the Heavens" Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry. Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth element, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics. Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's. This text is a transation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's "On the Heaven 1.1-4".

On Epictetus "Handbook 27-53" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Epictetus "Handbook 27-53" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by Charles Britain, Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The "Enchiridion" or "Handbook" of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle's "Ethics", because it presupposed no knowledge of logic. We thus get a fascinating chance to see how a pagan Neoplatonist transformed Stoic ideas. The text was relevant to Simplicius because he too, like Epictetus, was teaching beginners how to take the first steps towards eradicating emotion, although he is unlike Epictetus in thinking that they should give up public life rather than acquiesce, if public office is denied them. Simplicius starts from a Platonic definition of the person as rational soul, not body, ignoring Epictetus' further whittling down of himself to just his will or policy decisions. He selects certain topics for special attention in chapters 1, 8, 27 and 31. Things are up to us, despite Fate. Our sufferings are not evil, but providential attempts to turn us from the body. Evil is found only in the human soul. But evil is parasitic (Proclus' term) on good. The gods exist, are provident, and cannot be bought off. With nearly all of this the Stoics would agree, but for quite different reasons, and their own distinctions and definitions are to a large extent ignored. This translation of the "Handbook" is published in two volumes. This is the second volume, covering chapters 27-53; the first covers chapters 1-26.

On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "Physics 5" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by J.O. Urmson; Peter Lautner; Translated by J.O. Urmson
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aristotle's "Physics Book 3" covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second version is designed to show that Book 3, like Book 5, means to disqualify change in relations from being genuine change. Aristotle's successor Theophrastus, we are told, and Simplicius himself, prefer to admit relational change. Chapter 3 introduces a general causal principle that the activity of the agent causing change is in the patient undergoing change, and that the causing and undergoing are to be counted as only one activity, however different in definition. Simplicius points out that this paves the way for Aristotle's God who moves the heavens, while admitting no motion in himself. It is also the basis of Aristotle's doctrine, central to Neoplatonism, that intellect is one with the objects it contemplates. In defending Aristotle's claim that the universe is spatially finite, Simplicius has to meet Archytas' question, "What happens at the edge?". He replies that, given Aristotle's definition of place, there is nothing, rather than an empty place, beyond the furthest stars, and one cannot stretch one's hand into nothing, nor be prevented by nothing. But why is Aristotle's beginningless universe not temporally infinite? Simplicius answers that the past years no longer exist, so one never has in infinite collection.

Commentaire À La >Physique - Édition Critique Avec Traduction Et Notes (Hardcover): Simplicius (De Cilicie -) Commentaire À La >Physique - Édition Critique Avec Traduction Et Notes (Hardcover)
Simplicius (De Cilicie -); Edited by Pantelis Golitsis, Philippe Hoffmann
R3,824 Discovery Miles 38 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 (Hardcover): Simplicius Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4 (Hardcover)
Simplicius; Translated by C.C.W. Taylor, Pamela Huby
R5,259 Discovery Miles 52 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander's lost commentary on Aristotle's Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary, and includes a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3 (Hardcover): Simplicius Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.2-3 (Hardcover)
Simplicius; Translated by Ian Mueller
R5,265 Discovery Miles 52 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first complete translation into a modern language of the first part of the pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia's commentary on Aristotle's argument that the world neither came to be nor will perish. It is notable and unusual among the commentaries because Simplicius includes in his discussion lengthy representations of the Christian John Philoponus' criticisms of Aristotle along with his own, frequently heavily sarcastic, responses.

On Aristotle "Categories 7-8" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "Categories 7-8" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by Barrie Fleet
R4,237 Discovery Miles 42 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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. Arisotle offers two definitons, 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.

On Aristotle "Categories 5-6" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "Categories 5-6" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by Frans de Haas, Barrie Fleet
R4,230 Discovery Miles 42 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle's "Categories" describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. It is usually taken that Plotinus attacked Aristotle's "Categories", but that Porphyry and Iamblichus restored it to the curriculum once and for all. Nonetheless, the introduction to this text stresses how much of the defence of Aristotle Porphyry was able to draw out of Plotinus' critical discussion. Simplicius' commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of Aristotle's "Categories". One subject discussed by Simplicius in these chapters is where the differentia of a species (eg the rationality of humans) fits into the scheme of categories. Another is why Aristotle elevates the category of Quantity to second place, above the category of Quality. Further, de Haas shows how Simplicius distinguishes different kinds of universal order to solve some of the problems.

On Aristotle "On Categories 9-15" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "On Categories 9-15" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by Richard Gaskin; Translated by Richard Gaskin
R4,243 Discovery Miles 42 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's "Categories" falls into two parts. First, it examines the six categories dealt with in chapter 9 of "Categories", namely acting, undergoing, being in a position, when, where, and having. Secondly, it examines the so-called "Postpraedicamenta" consisting of chapter 10-15, which treat four kinds of opposition (relatives, contraries, possession, and privation, affirmation and negation), along with priority, simultaneity, movement and (again) having.

On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.5-9" (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius On Aristotle "On the Heavens 1.5-9" (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Translated by R.J. Hankinson
R4,232 Discovery Miles 42 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aristotle argues in "On the Heavens" 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements, earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary translated here in the sixth century AD, tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.

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