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Plutarch’s Life of Nicias
A Study and Edition of the Rationes super Praedicamenta
A Commentary
Aristotelis
Frances B. Titchener
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Text & Literature
Philosophy / Medieval Philosophy
John Pagus on Aristotle’s Categories Heine Hansen (ed.) extensive study of one of the first extant thirteenthcentury commentaries on aristotle’s categories € 69,50 / £60.50 isbn 978 90 5867 913 0 05/2012 16 x 24 cm Hardback ca. 350 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – series 1 – 45 English
The Rationes super Praedicamenta Aristotelis of John Pagus is one of the earliest known literary products of the Arts Faculty of the University of Paris. Written in the 1230s, it is among the first extant commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories and reflects a period in which philosophers had already absorbed the full range of Aristotle's logical writings and were becoming increasingly familiar with his physical and metaphysical works. The present volume contains the first full critical edition of the text, preceded by an extensive introductory study consisting of two parts. The first part describes the life and work of John Pagus, the manuscript sources, formal features, authoritative sources, and date of his commentary, as well as its relationship to other known commentaries from the period. The second part is devoted to an analysis of some of the key features of Pagus’ interpretation of the categories. The author takes account of Pagus’ systematic construal of Aristotle’s text, focusing particular attention on his position on perennial issues such as what categories are, which categories there are, what sort of items they collect, whether or not they can overlap, and the relationship between logical and metaphysical categories. To more appreciate and understand Pagus’ approach, the volume also pays considerable attention to the views of his near-contemporaries Nicholas of Paris and Robert Kilwardby.
study of the literary technique, goals, and methods of plutarch’s life of nicias
Appointed against his will to spearhead the Athenians’ ill-fated invasion of Sicily in 415 bc, Nicias became entangled in a disaster that ultimately led his city to military defeat and humiliation. Historians have deliberated ever since over the role that Nicias, and especially his character and behaviour, played in this catastrophe. Five centuries later, Plutarch of Chaeronea, the author of moral essays and a series of twinned biographies known collectively as The Parallel Lives, entered this debate with his Life of Nicias. Drawing not only from historical sources like Thucydides but also from the works of philosophers, lyric poets, tragedians, comic playwrights, and many others, some of which writings are now lost, Plutarch wove a rich tapestry from the data available to him about Nicias’ career and times and created a new vision of the doomed general’s life-story. Titchener’s commentary analyses Plutarch’s use of these sources in the Life of Nicias, along with his literary technique, goals, and methods, and in the process sheds new light on the author and subject alike. frances b. titchener is professor of history at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
€ 55,00 / £48.00 isbn 978 90 5867 904 8 06/2012 16 x 24 cm Hardback 256 p.
heine hansen has studied classics at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in
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Philosophy from the University of Sydney (2010). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow
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at the University of Copenhagen.
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