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Informationen zum Autor Ian Mueller was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Michae Chase is Adjunct Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, and Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His books include three in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and his research focuses on Ancient Greek Neoplatonism with increasing interest in its relation to medieval Islamic Philosophy. He has also made accessible the work of the French scholar Pierre Hadot through English translations of his work and expositions of his view of Philosophy as a way of life, which was also the view of much of Greek Philosophy, including the commentary tradition. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In his "Categories", Aristotle divides what exists in the sensible world into ten categories. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentary on "Categories" and represents over 600 years of criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Textual Emendations TRANSLATION Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index ...
