Alexander Aphrodisiensis, "De anima libri mantissa" : A new edition of the Greek text with introduction and commentary / Alexander Aphrodisiensis; Robert W. Sharples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander Aphrodisiensis, author.

Contributor:

Sharples, Robert W., editor.

Series:

Peripatoi ; Band 21.

Peripatoi ; 21

Language:

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Early works to 1850.

Psychology.

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Aristotle. De anima.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

German

Summary:

R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise On the Soul by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c.200 AD). The collection includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate. The text is based upon a new collation of the principal manuscript, the ninth century Venetus Marcianus graecus 258, and the apparatus corrects Bruns' misreportings of the principal manuscript and of the others that he used. Account has also been taken of the medieval Arabic and Latin versions of some of the sections which circulated independently, notably On Intellect which had a substantial influence on medieval philosophy. The introduction is chiefly concerned with the manuscripts and the relation between them. The commentary is based on the notes to the editor's English translation of the work (London: Duckworth and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004); however, the commentary also takes into account more recent work on the collection by various scholars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

1. The Mantissa

2. Numbering of sections and within sections

3. The Text: General Observations

4. The Manuscripts

5. Relations between the Manuscripts

6. The Renaissance Correctors of a

7. This Edition

Sigla

Alexander, De anima libri mantissa

Commentary

Abbreviations and Bibliography

Index of Passages Cited

General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

3-11-097899-7

OCLC:

1013939997