Abstract
Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories contains the most extended testimony about the Stoic conception of acting (ποιεῖν) and undergoing (πάσχειν). Simplicius ascribed to the Stoics the idea that acting and undergoing are to be reduced to the movement. To this opinion Simplicius opposed the Aristotelian view according to which acting and undergoing are two different categories. In this paper I intend to outline the original Stoic position comparing the reportage of Simplicius with other Stoic sources. Later, I will deal with Boethus’ defense of the distinction between the categories of acting and undergoing. I will argue that Boethus directly reacted against the Stoic opinion reformulating it in Aristotelian language.
Ringraziamenti
Desidero ringraziare il mio supervisore, il prof. Bruno Centrone, per aver letto la prima versione estesa di questo studio e per il suo supporto costante. Ringrazio anche Francesco Ademollo, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Michael Griffin, Francesco Pelosi, Federico Petrucci e Barbara Castellani per i suggerimenti e le osservazioni critiche. Un ringraziamento speciale va a Concetta Luna, alla quale dedico questo articolo. Gli eventuali errori sono di mia responsabilità.
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- Frontmatter
- Articles
- The Riddle of the Great-souled eiron. Virtue, Deception and Democracy in the Nicomachean Ethics
- Le problème de la compréhension de la dualité de la téléologie d’Aristote comme « but » et « bénéficiaire »
- Providence et passions divines dans le stoïcisme : comment prémunir un dieu bienveillant contre la colère ?
- Zwei Prinzipienlehren aber nur ein Prinzip. Eudoros von Alexandrien und (neu-)pythagoreische Henologie
- Galen on the Stoic-Peripatetic Controversy about Mixtures: Qualities or Bodies?
- Plotinus on the Daemon as the Soul’s Erotic Disposition towards the Good
- Stoici e Peripatetici su agire, patire e movimento: la testimonianza di Simplicio
- Reviews
- Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF) (2019) e (2021): Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II.1* e Parte II.1**. Frammenti adespoti
- Lorenzo Giovannetti: Eidos and Dynamis: The Intertwinement of Being and Logos in Plato’s Thought
- Christelle Veillard: Hécaton de Rhodes. Les Fragments
- Maria Carmen De Vita (a c. di): Giuliano Imperatore. Lettere e Discorsi