Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
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Commentary on Aristotle's Categories is a late antique philosophical work in which Simplicius of Cilicia offers a detailed Neoplatonist exegesis and defense of Aristotle’s treatise on categories.
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| Commentary on Aristotle's Categories canonical | 1 |
| On the Categories (commentary) | 1 |
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Target entity: Commentary on Aristotle's Categories Context triple: [Simplicius of Cilicia, notableWork, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories]
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Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
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Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
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Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
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Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories is the section in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason where he derives the fundamental pure concepts of the understanding (the categories) from the logical forms of judgment.
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Target entity: Commentary on Aristotle's Categories Target entity description: Commentary on Aristotle's Categories is a late antique philosophical work in which Simplicius of Cilicia offers a detailed Neoplatonist exegesis and defense of Aristotle’s treatise on categories.
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A.
Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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B.
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
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C.
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
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D.
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
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E.
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories
Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories is the section in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason where he derives the fundamental pure concepts of the understanding (the categories) from the logical forms of judgment.
- F. None of above. chosen
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late antique philosophical work
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philosophical commentary ⓘ |
| aim |
defense of Aristotle's Categories
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detailed exegesis of Aristotle's Categories ⓘ |
| associatedPhilosopher | Simplicius of Cilicia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Athenian Neoplatonic school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Simplicius of Cilicia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commentaryOn | Categories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commentaryOnAuthor | Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
defenses of Aristotelian doctrines
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line-by-line exegesis ⓘ philosophical digressions ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Aristotelian categories
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classification of beings ⓘ problem of universals ⓘ relation between language and reality ⓘ |
| genre | commentary ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Iamblichus NERFINISHED ⓘ Plotinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Proclus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
members of Neoplatonic schools
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students of philosophy in late antiquity ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
accident
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category theory in Aristotle ⓘ predication ⓘ substance ⓘ |
| literaryForm | exegesis ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
logic
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metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ |
| philosophicalPosition | harmonization of Plato and Aristotle ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Neoplatonism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | extant ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima
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Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo NERFINISHED ⓘ Commentary on Aristotle's Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOfWork | Aristotle's Categories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Commentary on Aristotle's Categories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionRole |
integration of Aristotle into Neoplatonic curriculum
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transmission of Aristotelian philosophy ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Byzantine philosophical education
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medieval scholastic tradition ⓘ |
| workType | scholastic commentary ⓘ |
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On the Categories (commentary)