Aristotle Transformed : The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction to Second Edition 1. The ancient commentators on Aristotle Richard Sorabji 2. Review of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Karl Praechter 3. The earliest Aristotelian commentators Hans B. Gottschalk 4. The school of Alexander? Robert W. Sharples 5. Themistius: the last Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle? Henry J. Blumenthal 6. The harmony of Plotinus and Aristotle according to Porphyry Pierre Hadot 7. Porphyry's legacy to logic: a reconstruction Sten Ebbesen 8. How did Syrianus regard Aristotle? H.D. Saffrey 9. Infinite power impressed: the transformation of Aristotle's physics and theology Richard Sorabji 10. The metaphysics of Ammonius son of Hermeias Koenraad Verrycken 11. The development of Philoponus' thought and its chronology Koenraad Verrycken 12. The life and work of Simplicius in Greek and Arabic sources Ilsetraut Hadot 13. Neoplatonic elements in the de Anima commentaries Henry J. Blumenthal 14. The Alexandrian commentators and the introductions to their commentaries L.G. Westerink 15. Boethius' commentaries on Aristotle James Shiel 16. Boethius as an Aristotelian commentator Sten Ebbesen 17. An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena Robert Browning 18. The Greek commentators on Aristotle's Ethics H.P.F. Mercken 19. Philoponus, 'Alexander' and the origins of medieval logic Sten Ebbesen 20. Aristotle's doctrine of abstraction in the commentators Ian Mueller Note on the frontispiece: 'Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias' by Ulocrino Donald R. Morrison Select bibliography Index locorum General index