Syrianus
Auteur van Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 13-14 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
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Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 13-14 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2007) 8 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Syrianus: On Aristotle Metaphysics 3-4 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2014) 7 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
In Metaphysica Commentaria 1 exemplaar
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It's in these chapters of the Metaphysics (i.e. 13 and 14) where Aristotle is at his most polemical towards Platonism. It's here where he attacks the idea of number-forms. Most of Syrianus' defenses of Plato here are pretty easily summed up: Aristotle consistently tries to conflate the super-essential numbers of Pythagoreanism/Platonism with numbers relating to quantity and magnitude. The monad and the dyad are not to be confused as relating to this mundane use of numbers except in a very tangential way. Once one has this in mind, most of Aristotle's criticisms are null and void.
In the previous commentary, Syrianus accused Aristotle of having no unifying element to his catagories; the most brutal of Syrianus' criticisms of Aristotle here is where he not only uses Aristotle to refute Aristotle (i.e. showing contradictions in his philosophical system), but when he accuses Aristotle of having a system devoid of mind (nous). He's basically accusing Aristotle of being un-philosophical--OUCH! Obviously, having Platonist sympathies myself, I certainly find myself alligned far more with Syrianus than with Aristotle.
As I said in my review to the first volume of this commentary, for anyone who wants to acquaint themselves with how Neo-Platonists dealt with Aristotle's anti-Platonic views, this is pretty much the essential source for that. Recommended.… (meer)