Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 6-15

List of contents

Conventions
Abbreviations

Introduction
Departures from Busse's Text
Translation
Notes

English–Greek Glossary
Greek–English Index
Subject Index

About the author

Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Summary

This volume completes, starting from chapter 6, the commentary by the young Philoponus on Aristotle’s Categories, of which chapters 1–5 were previously published in this series (Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1–5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts). This ancient commentary was the first work in the Aristotelian syllabus after a general introduction to Aristotle by the same author. It is influenced by an extant short anonymous record of Philoponus’ teacher Ammonius’ lectures on the same work, but Philoponus’ commentary is two and a half times as long as that anonymous record, and includes special contributions of Philoponus’ own, for example in philology, Christian theology and in disagreements with Aristotle.

This English translation of Philoponus' work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.

Foreword

A translation of Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories from chapter 6-15, accompanied by extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes.

Additional text

[The book is] very valuable for our knowledge of Philopon and his way of commenting on Aristotle, as well as for the interpretation of ... commentaries [of] Aristotle's Categories.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Share, Share Michael
• Assisted by: Michael Griffin (Editor), Richard Sorabji (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781350193161
• ISBN: 978-1-350-19316-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle; Ancient Commentators on Aristo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500