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'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Traducere de Professor Fred D. Miller, Jr.
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mai 2021
This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle's distant successor in early 3rd century CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. Robert Browning had earlier made the case that Michael was enlisted by Princess Anna Comnena in a project to restore and complete the ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle, including those of Alexander; he did so by incorporating available ancient commentaries into commentaries of his own. Metaphysics Book 12 posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system Aristotle had elaborated elsewhere as having the earth at the centre. The fixed stars are whirled around it on an outer sphere, the sun, moon and recognised planets on interior spheres, but with counteracting spheres to make the motions of each independent of the motions of others and of the fixed stars, thus yielding a total of 55 spheres. Motion is transmitted from a divine unmoved mover through divine moved movers which move the celestial spheres, and on to the perishable realms. Chapters 1 to 5 describe the principles and causes of the perishable substances nearer the centre of the universe, while Chapters 6 to 10 seek to prove the existence and attributes of the celestial substances beyond.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350179356
ISBN-10: 1350179353
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias in early 3rd century CE Athens, but Michael of Ephesus in 12th century CE Constantinople

Notă biografică

Fred D. Miller Jr. is Research Fellow at the University of Arizona, USA and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, USA.

Cuprins

Preface Conventions Abbreviations Introduction 1. The place of Book 12 in Aristotle's Metaphysics 2. Who wrote the commentary on Book 12? 3. Critical assessments of Ps.-Alexander 4. Ps.-Alexander's interpretation of Metaphysics 12 5. Sources of Ps.-Alexander's commentary on Metaphysics 12 Textual Emendations Translation NotesAppendix I: Freudenthal's Comparison of the Two AlexandersAppendix II: Comparison of Ps.-Alexander's Readings with the Aristotle ManuscriptsBibliography English-Greek GlossaryGreek-English IndexIndex of Passages from Other WorksSubject Index

Recenzii

Miller's translation is clear, and the English flows naturally. Moreover, he has enlarged Michael's lemmata, so that the reader can see what is being commented on. Copious notes provide further help, and there are useful indexes and appendices.