6. Plotinus’ criticism of Aristotle’s doctrine of primary substance and its background

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Publications by Paraskevi Kotzia IX
4. Contents XIII
5. I. ARISTOTLE
6. 1. The explanatory value of developmental hypotheses as exemplified by the interpretation of Aristotle 3
7. 2. About the specificity of the Aristotelian Politics 19
8. 3. The debt of Aristotle’s collection of politeiai to the sophistic tradition 33
9. 4. Aristotle on Alcmaeon in relation to Pythagoras: an addendum in Metaphysics Alpha? 49
10. II. COMMENTATORS
11. 5. Late Antiquity: “Whether we like it or not”. An Essay 71
12. 6. Plotinus’ criticism of Aristotle’s doctrine of primary substance and its background 83
13. 7. The Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle on the origins of language: a new “Tower of Babel”? 95
14. 8. The early literary construct of Boethius: Ιn Isagogen Porphyrii commenta, editio prima 107
15. 9. The title of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics 131
16. 10. Ammonius Hermeiou on the appearances of ghosts 151
17. 11.μετά τινων ἰδίων ἐπιστάσεων: John Philoponus as an editor of Ammonius’ lectures 167
18. 12. The Un-Byzantine Byzantine on two sophisms 195
19. Bibliography 207
20. Index of Names 219
21. Index of Passages 223
22. List of Contributors 235