In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that they could really be reduced to relatives, so it is important how the category of Relative is defined. Aristotle offers two definitions, and the second, stricter, one is often cited by his defenders in order to rule out objections. The second definition of relative involves the idea of something changing its relationship through a change undergone by its correlate, not by itself. There were disagreements as to whether this was genuine change, and Plotinus discussed whether relatives exist only in the mind, without being real. The terms used by Aristotle for such relationships was 'being disposed relatively to something', a term later borrowed by the Stoics for their fourth category, and perhaps originating in Plato's Academy. In his discussion of Quality, Aristotle reports a debate on whether justice admits of degrees, or whether only the possession of justice does so. Simplicius reports the further development of this controversy in terms of whether justice admits a range or latitude (platos). This debate helped to inspire the medieval idea of latitude of forms, which goes back much further than is commonly recognised - at least to Plato and Aristotle.
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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".

Abbreviations
Preface by Richard Sorabji
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: The Commentators
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
General Index
Index of Passages Cited

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A translation of Simplicius' philosophical commentary on the Aristotle's Categories 7-8, with extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes.
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The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series is a prestigious scholarly project, which translates into English the principal works of the Neoplatonist commentators on Aristotle. The translation in each volume is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.

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ISBN
9781472557346
Publisert
2014-04-10
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
760 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
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240

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Barrie Fleet is Preceptor and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK.