Alexander of Aphrodisias, a pupil of Aristocles of Messene, was the most celebrated of the Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was styled, by way of pre-eminence, o exegetes ("the expositor"). He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria. Aristocles of Messene (100-150) was a skeptic. ... Aristotle (Greek: Aristotélēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... The tetrapylon (monumental gate) Aphrodisias was a town in Caria, now part of modern Turkey, about 230 km (142. ... Location of Caria Caria (Greek Καρία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia. ...

He came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century, became head of the Lyceum and lectured on peripatetic philosophy. The object of his work was to free the doctrine from the syncretism of Ammonius and to reproduce the pure doctrine of Aristotle. Athens (Greek: Αθήνα - Athína) is the largest city and capital of Greece, located in the Attica periphery of central Greece. ... The 2nd century is the period from 101 - 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ... A lyceum can be an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe), or a public hall used for cultural events like concerts. ... Peripatetic means wandering. The Peripatetics were a school of philosophy in ancient Greece. ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. ... Ammonius Saccas (3rd century AD) was a Greek philosopher of Alexandria, often called the founder of the Neoplatonic school. ...

Commentaries by Alexander on the following works of Aristotle are still extant:

• the Analytica Priora, i
• the Topica
• the Meteorologica
• the De Sensu
• the Metaphysica, i-v, together with an abridgment of what he wrote on the remaining books of the Metaphysica.

His commentaries were greatly esteemed among the Arabs, who translated many of them. Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Islam Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ); is a member of a Semitic group of people whose cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases, ancestral origins trace back to the...

Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him. Alexanders band lies between the two rainbows. ... An optical phenomenon is any observable event which results from the interaction of light and matter. ...

There are also several original writings by Alexander still extant. The most important of these are a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity; and one On the Soul, in which he contends that the undeveloped reason in man is material (nous ulikos) and inseparable from the body. He argued strongly against the doctrine of immortality. He identified the active intellect (nous poietikos), through whose agency the potential intellect in man becomes actual, with God. Stoicism is a school of philosophy commonly associated with such Greek philosophers as Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, or Chrysippus and with such later Romans as Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus. ... This article is about living for infinite period of time. ...

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495-1498; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice (1534); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847. J. Nourisson has treated of his doctrine of fate (De la liberte et du hazard, Paris, 1870). In the early Renaissance his doctrine of the soul's mortality was adopted by Pietro Pomponazzi (against the Thomists and the Averroists), and by his successor Cesare Cremonini. Themistius (317 - c. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, or Hugo de Groot; 10th April 1583 - 28th August 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. ... J. C. Orelli may be: Johann Caspar von Orelli Johann Conrad Orelli Hans Konrad von Orelli, theologian Category: ... View of the inner city with the four main churches visible, and the Albis in the backdrop Zürich (German: , Zürich German: Züri , French: , in English generally Zurich, Italian: ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Hermann Bonitz (29 July 1814 - 25 July 1888), German scholar, was born at Langensalza in Saxony. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (16 September 1462 - 18 May 1525) was an Italian philosopher born in Mantua and died in Bologna. ... Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of Thomas Aquinas. ... Averroism was a philosophical trend among scholastics in the late 1200s based on Averroës interpretations of Aristotle. ... Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino (22 December 1550[1] in Cento in the then Papal States - 19 July 1631 in Padua then under Republic of Venice rule) was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. ...

In 2007 words found in a 13th Century copy of a prayer book, the Archimedes Palimpsest, written by a scribe called John Myronas were attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias. [1] A Modern Prayer Book The Book of Common Prayer is the prayer book of the Church of England and also the name for similar books used in other churches in the Anglican Communion. ... The Archimedes Palimpsest[1] is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex which originally was a copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors. ... This is about scribe, the profession. ...

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Further reading

• Merlan, Philip. (1970). "Alexander of Aphrodisias". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 117-120. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 

• See also Alexandrists, Pietro Pomonazzi. Also A. Apelt, Die Schrift d. Alex. v. Aphr., Philolegus, xlv., 1886: C. Ruelle, Alex. d'Aphr. et le pretendu Alex. d'Alexandrie, Rev. des etudes grecques, v., 1892; E. Zeller's Outlines of Gk. Phil. (Eng. trans., ed. 1905, p. 296).