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1 Online-Ressource (192 p)
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Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472552167
Series Statement:
Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Uniform Title:
Commentarius in Aristot 1-4 Categoriae
Content:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and indexes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780715631973
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472501073
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472500502
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472552167
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