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Replying to Stoics as the Basis of True Aristotelianism. The Significance of Polemics in Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Commentaries and Treatises

Chiara Militello
2021-01-01
2021
9782503596884
It may seem that, while in his treatises Alexander uses the principles of Aristotelian philosophy to address problems that are often typical of the Imperial age, in his commentaries on Aristotle he is simply concerned with explaining Aristotle’s words. However, it has been convincingly argued that all Alexander’s works – commentaries and treatises alike – are equally exegetical. In this paper, I argue that all Alexander’s works are also equally polemical, and, as a consequence, that the controversy between the Aristotelian school and the other schools (above all, the Stoic one) is foundational to Alexander’s version of Aristotelianism. As a matter of fact, in his commentaries Alexander often chooses to focus on those Aristotle’s sentences that can form the basis for a polemical argument against the Stoics. The controversy between the Aristotelian and the Stoic schools is also mentioned at the very beginning of two commentaries, as the framework of Alexander’s approach to the Aristotelian treatise.
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