Aristotle Transformed: the Ancient Commentators and their Influence

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Aristotle Transformed: the Ancient Commentators and their Influence

Description

This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. ... The importance of the commentators is partly that they represent the thought and classroom teaching of the Aristotelian and Neoplatonist schools and partly that they provide a panorama of a thousand years of anicient Greek philosophy, revealing many original quotations from lost works. Even more significant is the profound influence ... that they exert on later philosophy, Islamic and Western. Not only did they preserve anti-Aristotelian marterial which helped inspire Medieval and Renaissance science, but they presented Aristotle in a form that made him acceptable to the Christian Church. It is not Aristotle, but Aristotle transformed and embedded in the philosophy of the commentators, that so often lies behind the views of later thinkers. --From book jacket.

Publisher

London : Duckworth

Contributor

Edited by Richard Sorabji

Relation

Series: Ancient commentators on Aristotle.

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Book

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Citation

“Aristotle Transformed: the Ancient Commentators and their Influence,” Humanities Hub, accessed December 30, 2024, https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1440.