This volume completes, starting from chapter 6, the commentary by the young Philoponus on Aristotle »s Categories, of which chapters 1–5 were previously published in this series (
Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1–5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts). This ancient commentary was the first work in the Aristotelian syllabus after a general introduction to Aristotle by the same author. It is influenced by an extant short anonymous record of Philoponus » teacher Ammonius » lectures on the same work, but Philoponus » commentary is two and a half times as long as that anonymous record, and includes special contributions of Philoponus » own, for example in philology, Christian theology and in disagreements with Aristotle.
This English translation of Philoponus » work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
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