On the Common Universal Things and That They Are Not Beings by Themselves

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Entelekya Logico-Metaphysical Review
Volume:4 Issue:2
On the Common Universal Things and That They Are Not Beings by Themselves

On the Common Universal Things and That They Are Not Beings by Themselves

Authors : Alexander Of APHRODISIAS

Pages : 113-118

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Publication Date : 2020-11-30

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Alexander`s views on universals are, it seems, quite important in the history of western philosophy. When Boethius gives in his second commentary on Porphyry`s Isagoge his solution to the problem of universals as he conceived it, he claims to be adopting Alexander`s approach. If true, this means that the locus classicus for all western medieval thinkers on this topic is really a rendering of Alexander`s teaching. Alexander commented Aristotle’s statement in his On the Soul “The universal animal either is nothing at all or is posterior if it exists” insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(402b8);, and this commentary has been translated into Arabic several times in the classical period. In this study the anonymous Arabic translations of Alexander’s commentary has been translated into English.
Keywords : Aristotle, Alexander, On the Soul, commentary, universal, animal

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