Translated by Dooley W. E., Madigan Arthur. — Cornell University Press, 1992. — 251 p. — ISBN: 978-0801427404. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) The two books of Alexander of Aphrodisias' third-century commentary translated in this volume are fundamentally important to the interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics 2&3. Book 2 of Aristotle's Metaphysics offers an important...
Translated by Mueller Ian. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-1472557803. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) In the second half of book 1 of the Prior Analytics, Aristotle reflects on the application of the formalized logic he has developed in the first half, focusing particularly on the non-modal or assertoric syllogistic developed in the first seven...
Translated by Mueller I., Gould J. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 197 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). — ISBN: 978-1780938813. The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is the main ancient commentary, by the 'greatest' commentator, on the chapters of the Prior Analytics in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of...
Translated by Dooley W.E. — Cornell University Press, 1989. — 251 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). — ISBN: 978-0801422355. Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on Metaphysics '1-5 is the most substantial commentary on the Metaphysics to have survived from antiquity. In the first book of Metaphysics,...
Translated by Dooley W.E., Madigan Arthur. — Cornell University Press, 1994. — 236 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). — ISBN: 978-0801429774. The purpose of this brief introduction is to alert the reader to what he or she will find in Alexander's commentary on Metaphysics 4, and to give some indications of what may be of interest. To this end it may be helpful to begin...
Translated by Dooley W.E. — Cornell University Press, 1994. — 233 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-2969-2. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) Book 5 of the Metaphysics is extremely important because it consists of definitions of the main uses of key terms of Aristotle's philosophy. Aristotle is a systematic writer who often cross-refers to the definitions of terms given elsewhere, and this...
Translated by Barnes J., Bobzien S., Flannery K., Ierodiakonou K. — Cornell University Press, 1992. — 263 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). — ISBN: 978-0801426896. A leading Peripatetic philosopher of the early third century A.D., Alexander of Aphrodisias provided a commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics which remains one of the most thorough and helpful guides to...
Translated by Mueller Ian. — Cornell University Press, 1994. — 201 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-3618-4. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is the main ancient commentary, by the 'greatest' commentator, on the chapters of the Prior Analytics in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of...
Sharples R.W. (Text, translation and commentary). — Trowbridge, Great Britain, Redwood Burn Ltd, 1983. — 310 p. — ISBN: 0-7156-1589-0. В трактате «О судьбе» (Περὶ εἱμαρμένης, лат. De fato) Александр Афродисийский подробно изложил школьную перипатетическую позицию о соотношении судьбы, предопределения и свободы выбора. В структуре трактата можно выделить две неравные по объему...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 362 p. — (Scientia Graeco-Arabica 38). Alexander’s essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the early history of Aristotle’s logic. The essay survives only in a mutilated Arabic translation. This volume contains a new edition of the text, a translation (the first into any modern language), and a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 216 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that might or might not belong to a subject (for instance,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the Topics as a sort of handbook teaching how to defend and how attack any philosophical claim against philosophical adversaries. In book 3, Aristotle...
Brill, 2001. — viii, 190 p. — (Islamic Philosophy Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 44). This volume contains the Arabic translations of a lost treatise by Alexander of Aphrodisias (c. AD 200) On the Principles of the Universe with English translation, introduction and commentary. It also includes an Arabic and Syriac glossary. The introduction and commentary deal in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 189 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle, are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence. They exemplify the process by which Aristotle's thought came to be organised into 'Aristotelianism', and show how...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 219 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). This volume completes the translation in this series of Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle. The Quaestiones are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence. They exemplify the process whereby Aristotle's thought...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 240 p. — (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle). Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property,...
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