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Chase, Michael, Editor and Translator. Simplicius: On Aristotle's Categories 1-4.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20050601
Author:Newton, Lloyd A.

CHASE, Michael, Editor and Translator. Simplicius: On Aristotle's Categories 1-4. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Series. New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii + 192 pp. Cloth, $62.50--This work is the final installment of a four-part project to translate into English all of Simplicius's Commentary on Aristotle's Categories (the other three sections were not translated by Chase). A sixth-century philosopher exiled from Athens in 529 by Justinian, Simplicius was one of the last of the Neoplatonists to write a commentary on Aristotle's Categories. In keeping with the ...

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