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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 be an anonymous record taken from the seminars of Ammonius. Unlike much of Philoponus'' later writing, this commentary does not disagree with either Aristotle or Ammonius, and suggests the possibility that Philoponus ei

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Conventions Textual Emendations Introduction Translator's Note Translation Notes Select Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Names Subject Index

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 1/18/2014 12:12:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781472584106, 978-1472584106
      ISBN10: 1472584104
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      Book Synopsis
      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 be an anonymous record taken from the seminars of Ammonius. Unlike much of Philoponus'' later writing, this commentary does not disagree with either Aristotle or Ammonius, and suggests the possibility that Philoponus ei

      Table of Contents
      Conventions Textual Emendations Introduction Translator's Note Translation Notes Select Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Names Subject Index

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