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- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works
- Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings
- Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science
- Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: A Platonic Provenance
- Aristotle's Categorial Scheme
- De Interpretatione
- Aristotle's Logic
- Aristotle's Philosophical Method
- Aristotle on Heuristic Inquiry and Demonstration of <i>What it is</i>
- Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the <i>Physics</i> and <i>De Generatione et Corruptione</i>
- Teleological Causation
- Aristotle on the Infinite
- The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals
- Aristotle on the Separability of Mind
- Being <b><i>Qua</i></b> Being
- Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology
- <i>Energeia</i> and <i>Dunamis</i>
- Aristotle's Theology
- Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics
- Conceptions of Happiness in the <i>Nicomachean Ethics</i>
- Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception
- Aristotle's <i>Politics</i>
- Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion
- Aristotle on Poetry
- Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle
- Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition
- The Latin Aristotle
- General Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
In late antiquity, the commentary became the most prominent genre of philosophical writing. Aristotle was the author who received the lion's share of attention, even though the commentators, beginning with Porphyry, were Platonists. Since Aristotle was seen not only as harmonious with Plato, but as more suitable for initial study in philosophy, commentaries for the use of students were naturally more often devoted to his works than to Plato's. The practice of writing commentaries on Aristotle, and the curriculum the commentaries were meant to support, cut across confessional lines. The Arabic tradition of commentary on Aristotle focuses on the earlier parts of the Aristotelian curriculum, with most emphasis on the logical and physical works. Only the greatest commentator of the Arabic tradition, Averroes, commented extensively on the De Anima or the Metaphysics. As in the Greek tradition, confessional divides were no obstacle to continuous and even co-ordinated efforts to understand Aristotle. This is best shown by the group of commentators known as the “Baghdad school.”
Keywords: Aristotle, Plato, commentaries, Baghdad school, philosophy, Arabic tradition, Averroes, De Anima, Metaphysics
Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is the author of Al-Kindī (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) and the editor of numerous books on philosophy in the Islamic world, including Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is also the author of a book-series entitled A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, appearing with Oxford University Press
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works
- Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings
- Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science
- Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: A Platonic Provenance
- Aristotle's Categorial Scheme
- De Interpretatione
- Aristotle's Logic
- Aristotle's Philosophical Method
- Aristotle on Heuristic Inquiry and Demonstration of <i>What it is</i>
- Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the <i>Physics</i> and <i>De Generatione et Corruptione</i>
- Teleological Causation
- Aristotle on the Infinite
- The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals
- Aristotle on the Separability of Mind
- Being <b><i>Qua</i></b> Being
- Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology
- <i>Energeia</i> and <i>Dunamis</i>
- Aristotle's Theology
- Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics
- Conceptions of Happiness in the <i>Nicomachean Ethics</i>
- Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception
- Aristotle's <i>Politics</i>
- Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion
- Aristotle on Poetry
- Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle
- Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition
- The Latin Aristotle
- General Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
- Subject Index