Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›Categories‹

Critical Edition and Translation
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-144395-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 497 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Sciences in the Christian Orient

Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle’s logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5 century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose lectures formed the basis for Sergius’ main philosophical work, his extensive . In this treatise, Sergius adapted for his Christian audience the Alexandrian educational model and exegesis of Aristotle logical writings and in this way influenced subsequent centuries of Aristotelian studies in Syriac.

The commentary contains an extensive introductory part which deals with the traditional set of preliminaries (), e.g., the general division of sciences, the scope of Aristotle’s logic in general and of his treatise in particular, etc. Moreover, it includes excurses in natural philosophy and contains extensive quotations from Aristotle’s . Thus, Sergius’ treatise not only introduced the tradition of exegesis of Aristotle to the Syriac world, but provided Syriac readers with a general introduction to philosophy and logic and thus paved the way for the transmission of Greek sciences and philosophy from Alexandria to Baghdad.

Zielgruppe

Historians and students of philosophy, specialists in the Neoplat

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arzhanov, Yury

Sergius

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Yury Arzhanov, University of Salzburg, Austria.