Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-8
Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-8 by David L. Blank, published by Bristol Classical Press in January 1996, is a scholarly examination of Aristotle’s pivotal work on logic. This edition spans 214 pages and is presented in English. The book focuses on the first eight chapters of Aristotle’s On Interpretation, which explore the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements, beginning with their fundamental components and progressing to the nature of affirmations and negations.
Readers will find a detailed analysis of Ammonius’s commentary, which is significant as it is the only one attributed to him, despite his extensive teachings on Aristotle’s works. The text draws on the ideas of his teacher, Proclus, and references the influential yet lost commentary of Porphyry. This volume contributes to the understanding of logic and language, making it relevant for those interested in philosophy, particularly within the context of Greek and Roman thought.
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Aristotle’s On Interpretation, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, analysed in this volume, explain what statements are, starting from their basic components – the words – and working up to the character of opposed affirmations and negations.
Ammonius, who in his capacity as Professor at Alexandria from around AD 470 taught almost all the great sixth-century commentators, left just this one commentary in his own name, although his lectures on other works of Aristotle have been written up by his pupils, who included Philoponus and Asclepius. His ideas on Aristotle’s On Interpretation were derived from his own teacher, Proclus, and partly from the great lost commentary of Porphyry. The two most important extant commentaries on On Interpretation, of which this is one (the other being by Boethius) both draw on Porphyry’s work, which can be to some extent reconstructed for them
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