Medieval Greek commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics / edited by Charles Barber, David Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barber, Charles, 1964-

Jenkins, David.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; v. 101.

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; v. 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.

Aristotle.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Given the enduring importance of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics , it is remarkable to find that there is no extensive surviving commentary on this text from the period between the second century and the twelfth century. This volume is focused on the first of the medieval commentaries, that produced in the early twelfth century by Eustratios of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus, and an anonymous author in Constantinople. This endeavor was to have a significant impact on the reception of the Nicomachean Ethics in Latin and Catholic Europe. For, in the mid-thirteenth century, Robert Grosseteste translated into Latin a manuscript that contained these Byzantine commentators. Both Albertus Magnus and Bonaventure then used this translation as a basis for their discussions of Aristotle's book. Contributors are George Arabatzis, Charles Barber, Linos Benakis, Elizabeth Fisher, Peter Frankopan, Katerina Ierodiakonou, David Jenkins, Anthony Kaldellis and Michele Trizio.

Contents:

Classical scholarship in twelfth-century Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis

The literary, cultural and political context for the twelfth-century commentary on the Nicomachean ethics / Peter Frankopan

The Aristotelian ethics in Byzantium / Linos G. Benakis

Neoplatonic source-material in Eustratios of Nicaea's commentary on Book VI of the Nicomachean ethics / Michele Trizio

Eustratios of Nicaea's Definition of being revisited / David Jenkins

Eustratios of Nicaea on the separation of art and theology / Charles Barber

The anonymous commentary on Nicomachean ethics VII: language, style, and implications / Elizabeth A. Fisher

Michael of Ephesus on the empirical man, the scientist and the educated man (in Ethica Nicomachea X and in De partibus animalium I) / George Arabatzis

Some observations on Michael of Ephesus' comments on Nicomachean ethics / Katerina Ierodiakonou.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60251-9

9786612602511

90-474-2739-4

OCLC:

593346247

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004173934.i-228 DOI