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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
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Includes indexes. |
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Conventions; Philoponus On Aristotle Categories 1-5; Introduction; Date of Philoponus' commentary and relation to Ammonius; Revised history of universals from Aristotle to Philoponus and Simplicius; Notes; Textual Emendations; Philoponus On Aristotle Categories 1-5 Translation; John Philoponus' Scholia on Aristotle Categories 1-5; On Substance; Notes; English-Greek Glossary; Greek-English Index; Subject Index; Philoponus A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts; Introduction. |
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Parts within wholes: the philosophical backgroundThe background in Christian theology; Are the divine and human elements in Christ like parts in a whole?; Philoponus' contribution; Text and transmission; A note on the date, style, and lexicon of the Syriac version; Chapter summary; Notes; Abbreviations; Philoponus A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts Translation; A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts, Written for the Priest Sergius; Notes; English-Syriac-Greek Glossary; Syriac-English Index; Subject Index. |
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Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius, as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material individual in which it has its being. The work is important for its own philosophical discussion and for the insight it sheds on its sources. For considerable portions, On Aristotle Categories 1-5 resembles the wording of an earlier commentary which declares itself to b. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Aristotle. Categoriae.
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Categoriae (Aristotle) |
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Neoplatonism.
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Neoplatonism. |
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Electronic books.
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Sirkel, Riin.
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Print version: Philoponus : on Aristotle categories 1-5 : with Philoponus : a treatise concerning the whole and the parts. London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, ©2015 vi, 226 pages Ancient commentators on Aristotle. 9781472584106 |
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9781472584120 (electronic book) |
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1472584120 (electronic book) |
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9781472584106 |
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9781472584113 (e-pub) |
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1472584104 |
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