{"id":75,"date":"2011-11-25T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-11-25T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:05:46","slug":"session-3-michele-anik-stanbury-alexander-of-aphrodisias-and-the-place-of-the-commentary-tradition-in-the-study-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/2011\/11\/25\/session-3-michele-anik-stanbury-alexander-of-aphrodisias-and-the-place-of-the-commentary-tradition-in-the-study-of-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 3:  Michele Anik Stanbury, &#8220;Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Place of the Commentary Tradition in the Study of Philosophy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a talk by Michele Anik Stanbury\u00a0<strong>10:30-11:30, Wednesday November 30th in 339 O&#8217;Shaughnessy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>The history of philosophy is generally thought of in terms of the \u2018greats\u2019, and not without reason.\u00a0 Theophrastus and Simplicius are interesting in their own right, but where would they have been, intellectually speaking, without Plato and Aristotle?\u00a0 In this talk I will address the question of the value of historical commentaries for our understanding of the primary sources, considering in particular the example of Alexander of Aphrodisias.\u00a0 Dubbed \u2018the commentator\u2019, he was for several hundred years considered\u00a0<em>the<\/em>\u00a0secondary source on Aristotle.\u00a0 Though this fact makes him historically interesting, it obviously does not make him an unquestionable authority on Aristotle; it is not impossible that for several hundred years scholars were led astray in their understanding of Peripatetic doctrine.\u00a0 Moreover, in principle a good interpretation of Aristotle should look first and foremost to Aristotle\u2019s own writings rather than to commentaries, whether ancient or modern.\u00a0 What reason do we have to think that Alexander has something to offer us as students of Aristotle, or students of philosophy generally?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a talk by Michele Anik Stanbury\u00a010:30-11:30, Wednesday November 30th in 339 O&#8217;Shaughnessy. Refreshments will be provided. Abstract: The history of philosophy is generally thought of in terms of the \u2018greats\u2019, and not without reason.\u00a0 Theophrastus and Simplicius are interesting in their own right, but where would they have been, intellectually speaking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/philosophyandhistoryworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}