Research Catalog

Title

On Aristotle's On interpretation 9 / Ammonius ; translated by David Blank ; with, On Aristotle's On interpretation 9 / Boethius : first and second commentaries ; translated by Norman Kretzmann ; with essays by Richard Sorabji, Norman Kretzmann & Mario Mignucci.

Author

Ammonius, Hermiae.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Boethius, -524.
• Blank, David L.
• Kretzmann, Norman.

Description

216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of determinism. It contains the two most important commentaries on the determinists' sea battle argument as well as on other deterministic arguments. The book includes the earliest full exposition of the Reaper argument for determinism, a discussion of whether changeless knowledge of the passage of time is possible, and the two fullest expositions of the idea that determinism is implied not by truth, but only by definite truth.
• Ammonius and Boethius both wrote commentaries on Aristotle's On Interpretation and on its ninth chapter, where Aristotle discusses the sea battle. Their comments are crucial, for Ammonius' commentary influenced the Islamic Middle Ages, while that of Boethius was of equal importance to medieval Latin-speaking philosophers.

Series Statement

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Uniform Title

• In Aristotelis De interpretatione commentarius. Kephalaia 9. English
• Ancient commentators on Aristotle.

Alternative Title

In Aristotelis De interpretatione commentarius. Kephalaia 9.

Subjects

• Future (Philosophy) > Early works to 1800
• Free will and determinism > Early works to 1800
• Aristotle > De interpretatione 9
• Fate and fatalism > Early works to 1800

Note

• Series from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in English; glossary and indexes in English, Greek, and Latin.

Contents

Preface / Richard Sorabji -- The three deterministic arguments opposed by Ammonius / Richard Sorabji -- Boethius, Ammonius and their different Greek backgrounds / Richard Sorabji -- Boethius and the truth about tomorrow's sea battle / Norman Kretzmann -- Ammonius' sea battle / Mario Mignucci -- Textual Emendations -- Ammonius On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 -- Boethius On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 (first commentary) -- Boethius On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 (second commentary).

ISBN

0801433355 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

98016299

OCLC

ocm38747297

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries