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Simplicii, Omnium Aristotelis Interpretum Praestantissimi, in Eiusdem Philosophi Categorias Siur Praedicamenta (1551)

Simplicius, Of,Justus Velsius

Simplicii, Omnium Aristotelis Interpretum Praestantissimi, In Eiusdem Philosophi Categorias Siur Praedicamenta (1551) est liber qui a Simplicio scriptus est. Autor est interpretum Aristotelis omnium praestantissimus. In hoc libro, auctor Aristotelis…

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Digressions Sur Le Lieu Et Sur Le Temps: Edition Critique Avec Traduction Et Notes

Simplicius de Cilicie

Die Reihe Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Series academica wird von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften herausgegeben; sie ist der Reihe Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Quellen und…

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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…

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Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor priores commentaria

Simplicius Cilicius

Between 1883 and 1909 a team of scholars led by Hermann Diels produced 15,000 pages of edited text of commentaries on Aristotle in Greek from the 2nd to the 13th…

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Simplicii in Aristotelis physicorum libros quattuor posteriores commentaria

Simplicius Cilicius

Between 1883 and 1909 a team of scholars led by Hermann Diels produced 15,000 pages of edited text of commentaries on Aristotle in Greek from the 2nd to the 13th…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4

Simplicius

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…

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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…

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Book two of Aristotle’s Physics is thought by some to be the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. This is a translation of Simplicius’s commentary…

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This is a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotles’ Categories . Falling into two parts, it examines first of all the six categories dealt with in chapter 9 of Categories…

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In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Categories .

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This text is a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s On the Heaven 1.1-4 .

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In On the Heavens Aristotle discusses his theory that the stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s work.

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Simplicii in libros Aristotelis de anima commentaria

Simplicius Cilicius

Between 1883 and 1909 a team of scholars led by Hermann Diels produced 15,000 pages of edited text of commentaries on Aristotle in Greek from the 2nd to the 13th…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5

Istvan Bodnar (Associate Professor at Eoetvoes University and Central European University, Budapest),Dr Michael Chase (University of Victoria, Canada),Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia)

This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius on Aristotle’s Physics book eight, chapters one to five, which discuss Alexander’s analysis of the…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

The first translation into English of this part of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, which deals with the treatment of matter.

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‘Simplicius’: On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6-13

Carlos Steel (University of Leuven, Belgium)

This translation in the commentary series on Aristotle On the Soul discusses the objects of the intellect, practical reasoning and the interaction between desire and cognition.

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‘Simplicius’: On Aristotle On the Soul 3.6-13

Carlos Steel (University of Leuven, Belgium)

This translation in the commentary series on Aristotle On the Soul discusses the objects of the intellect, practical reasoning and the interaction between desire and cognition.

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Simplicius on the Planets and Their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy

Alan C. Bowen

The book contends that the digression ending Simplicius’ In de caelo 2.12 is not a proper history of early Greek planetary theory, but a creative atempt to show that to…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8

Barrie Fleet

In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Categories .

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Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53

Charles Brittain,Tad Brennan

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. This is the…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4

Simplicius

A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into…

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Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26

Charles Brittain,Tad Brennan

Originally published by Duckworth in 2002.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15

Richard Gaskin

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…

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Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator

Han Baltussen

A study in English of the interpretative and philosophical approach of the commentaries of Simplicius of Cilicia. This work argues that our understanding of Simplicius’ methodology will be greatly enhanced…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1-7

Presents Simplicius’ selection of Presocratic texts. This book criticizes the lost commentary of the leading Aristotelian commentator, Alexander.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.7-4.6

Examines Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus . This book identifies fifteen objections by Aristotle to Plato’s views on weight in the four elements.

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

This is the first translation into English of this part of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, which deals with the treatment of matter.

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Simplicius

A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 5-6

Barrie Fleet,Frans de Haas

Chapters 5 and 6 of Aristotle’s Categories describe his first two categories, Substance and Quantity. Simplicius’ commentary is our most comprehensive account of the debate on the validity of these…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.6-10

Richard D. McKirahan (Pomona College, USA)

Aristotle’s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1-2

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the number…

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With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1-2, Aristotle raises the question of the number…

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Der Simplicius: Oper in 3 Akten

Hans Huber,A Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Der Simplicius - Oper in 3 Akten ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1899. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5

Istvan Bodnar (Associate Professor at Eoetvoes University and Central European University, Budapest),Dr Michael Chase (University of Victoria, Canada),Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia)

This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius on Aristotle’s Physics Book 8, Chapters 1-5 which discuss Alexander’s analysis of the transition between…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1-8

Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume…

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4

Professor J.O. Urmson (Late of University of Oxford, UK)

The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle’s ‘On the Soul’ appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for…

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Simplicius’: On Aristotle On the Soul 3.1-5

H.J. Blumenthal

In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still…

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Der Abenteurlicher Simplicius Simplicissimus;

Engelbert Hegaur,Hans Jakob Christoph Von Grimmelshausen

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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Simplicius - Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Epictete

This volume presents, together with a broad historical introduction, the first critical edition based on all the known MSS of this work and offers, in contrast to preceding editions, a…

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A Study of the Position of the Verb in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicius Simplicissimus

Sophia Gerhardine Harms

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Aristotle’s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. This text provides a translation of Simplicius’…

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Here is a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander on the origins, if any, of the universe. A parallel battle had already been conducted by Philoponus…

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Epicteti Dissertationum Ab Arriano Digestarum Libri Iv

John Upton

This classic work collects together the teachings and thoughts of the ancient philosopher Epictetus, as recorded by his student Arrian. With detailed commentary and analysis by a variety of scholars…

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Andr E Dacier,Simplicius (Cilicius)

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John Upton

This classic work collects together the teachings and thoughts of the ancient philosopher Epictetus, as recorded by his student Arrian. With detailed commentary and analysis by a variety of scholars…

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