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'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17935-6 (ISBN)

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This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle’s distant successor in early 3rd century CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. Robert Browning had earlier made the case that Michael was enlisted by Princess Anna Comnena in a project to restore and complete the ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle, including those of Alexander; he did so by incorporating available ancient commentaries into commentaries of his own.

Metaphysics Book 12 posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system Aristotle had elaborated elsewhere as having the earth at the centre. The fixed stars are whirled around it on an outer sphere, the sun, moon and recognised planets on interior spheres, but with counteracting spheres to make the motions of each independent of the motions of others and of the fixed stars, thus yielding a total of 55 spheres. Motion is transmitted from a divine unmoved mover through divine moved movers which move the celestial spheres, and on to the perishable realms. Chapters 1 to 5 describe the principles and causes of the perishable substances nearer the centre of the universe, while Chapters 6 to 10 seek to prove the existence and attributes of the celestial substances beyond.

Fred D. Miller Jr. is Research Fellow at the University of Arizona, USA and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, USA.

Preface
Conventions
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The place of Book 12 in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
2. Who wrote the commentary on Book 12?
3. Critical assessments of Ps.-Alexander
4. Ps.-Alexander’s interpretation of Metaphysics 12
5. Sources of Ps.-Alexander’s commentary on Metaphysics 12

Textual Emendations

Translation

Notes
Appendix I: Freudenthal’s Comparison of the Two Alexanders
Appendix II: Comparison of Ps.-Alexander’s Readings with the Aristotle Manuscripts
Bibliography

English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Index of Passages from Other Works
Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Übersetzer	Jr. Miller Professor Fred D.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-350-17935-3 / 1350179353
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17935-6 / 9781350179356
Zustand	Neuware