Han Baltussen: 2 books
Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius
The Methodology of a Commentator
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This is the first book-length study in English of the interpretative and philosophical approach of the commentaries of Simplicius of Cilicia (c. AD 530). Simplicius' work, marked by doctrinal complexity and scholarship, is unusually self-conscious, learned and rich in its sources, and he is therefore...
The Peripatetics
Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a fundamental...