Medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Categories / edited by Lloyd A. Newton.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Newton, Lloyd A.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction - The importance of medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s categories /; The medieval posterity of Simplicius ’commentary on the categories:Thomas Aquinas and Al-Fārābī /; Avicenna the commentator /; Albertus Magnus on the subject of Aristotle’s categories /; Interconnected literal commentaries on the categories in the middle ages /; Thomas Aquinas on establishing the identity of Aristotle’s categories /; Reading Aristotle’s categories as an introduction to logic: Later medieval discussions about its place in the aristotelian corpus /; Simon of Faversham on Aristotle’s categories and the scientia praedicamentorum /; Duns Scotus ’s account of a propter quid science of the categories /; Fine-tuning Pini ’s reading of Scotus ’s categories commentary /; How is Scotus’s logic related to his metaphysics? A reply to Todd Bates /; John Buridan : On Aristotle’s categories /; A realist interpretation of the categories in the fourteenth century:The Litteralis Sententia Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis of Robert Alyngton /; Thomas Maulevelt’s denial of substance /; Quaestiones Super Veteri Arte Ff. 1ra–145vb Quaestiones Super Praedicamenta Erfurt Sb Ampl. Q 288 (XIV) Ff. 43rb–145vb /; Categories And universals in the later Middle Ages /; Bibliography /; List of contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-427) and index.
• ISBN: 1282399101; 9786612399107; 9047442075
• ISSN: 1871-6377
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lloyd A. Newton.

Medieval commentary writing has often been described as a way of \'doing philosophy,\' and not without reason. The various commentaries on Aristotle's Categories we have from this period did not simply elaborate a dialectical exercise for training students; rather, they provided their authors with an unparalleled opportunity to work through crucial philosophical problems, many of which remain with us today. As such, this unique commentary tradition is important not only in its own right, but also to the history and development of philosophy as a whole. The contributors to this volume take a fresh look at it, examining a wide range of medieval commentators, from Simplicius to John Wyclif, and discussing such issues as the compatibility of Platonism with Aristotelianism; the influence of Avicenna; the relationship between grammar, logic, and metaphysics; the number of the categories; the status of the categories as a science realism vs. nominalism; and the relationship between categories.