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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Alexander, intellect (νοῦς) in its primitive state is nothing but an aptitude associated with the other faculties of the soul, the formative principle of the organism.
		The theory of Alexander, therefore, is that the finite intellect is nothing but a capacity moved by the Universal Soul, that is, God; and that it (the finite intellect) does not admit, accordingly, of any numerical or specific differentiation.
		In fine, Alexander was the pivot on which turned all the discussions of the scholastic circles of the Middle Ages.
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	Alexander of Aphrodisias (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2005 Edition)
		Alexander also presents, albeit in a dialectical fashion intended to lead to the defeat of the Stoic tenets, the arguments used by the Stoics in their defense of contingency, chance, and human responsibility.
		Alexander’s construction of an Aristotelian account of fate and divine providence that limits them to nature and its overall benign order represents quite a weak conception of fate; but it is clearly the only one that Alexander regarded as compatible with the principles of Aristotelian philosophy of nature and ethics.
		Bodnar, I., 1997, ‘Alexander of Aphrodisias on Celestial Motions’.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/fall2005/entries/alexander-aphrodisias (4772 words)

	Alexander of Aphrodisias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander of Aphrodisias, pupil of Aristocles of Messene, the most celebrated of the Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle, and styled, by way of pre-eminence, o exegetes ("the expositor"), was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria.
		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.
		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.
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	Alexander von Aphrodisias - Wikipedia
		Alexander hielt sich vom Synkretismus und Mystizismus seiner Zeit fern und vertrat einen "reinen", naturalistischen Aristotelismus, der bis zur Leugnung der Unsterblichkeit der Seele ging.
		Alexander von Aphrodisias: Über das Schicksal, übersetzt und kommentiert von Andreas Zierl, Berlin 1995, Akademie-Verlag.
		Alexander wurde früher als Schüler des Aristokles von Messene bezeichnet, jedoch scheint die neuere Forschung stattdessen einen Aristoteles von Mytilene anzunehmen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_von_Aphrodisias (327 words)

	Alexander
		Alexander I of Epirus king of Epirus about 342 B.C. Alexander II of Epirus king of Epirus 272 B.C. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of Macedonia
		Alexander III (912 - 913), emperor of the Byzantine Empire
		Alexander Balas ruler of the Greek kingdom of Syria 150-146 B.C. Alexander Cornelius Greek grammarian
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	Commentators on Aristotle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Alexander of Aphrodisias was one of these teachers publicly appointed to a chair of Aristotelian philosophy.
		Alexander of Aphrodisias developed a line of interpretation that made the active intellect a non-human intellect and identified it with God.
		The exegetical tradition that finds its culmination in Alexander of Aphrodisias was primarily (but not exclusively) motivated by an attempt to defend the philosophy of Aristotle in the context of a debate between the different schools.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-commentators (8107 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.05.05
		On confronting this translation, the eighth volume devoted to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, the present reviewer cannot help recalling the scholarly situation that prevailed when he began a doctoral dissertation on this Aristotelian commentator in 1968.
		There were few current articles, and in fact more recent work on Alexander and the other Greek Aristotelian commentators in publications by students of medieval or renaissance philosophy and science than in those of students of ancient philosophy.
		A commentator as imaginative as Alexander may have digressed on what sense could be made of the expression "as it were without parts", given that this would be the status of a length thought in undivided time.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.05.05.html (1428 words)

	R.W. Sharples - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alexander of Aphrodisias, Quaestiones on Possibility, I. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 29 (1982) 91- 108.
		The Unmoved Mover and the Motion of the Heavens in Alexander of Aphrodisias.
		Implications of the new Alexander of Aphrodisias inscription.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /GrandLat/people/sharples/rwsbibl.html (1674 words)

	Alexander of Aphrodisias \| Encyclopedia of Philosophy
		Alexander of Aphrodisias, who was teaching at Athens in 200 CE, was recognized for centuries as the most authoritative exponent of Aristotle.
		These were the unqualified priority of the particular substance and the existence of universals only as concepts, or "acts of intellect." The form was what made "this" matter (that is, an identifiable piece) what it was, but it was contingent whether the form was universal in the sense of generic.
		(Alexander does not notice that a class with only one member, like his case of the sun, is still a class.) What the form is as a subject remains unclear.
	www.bookrags.com /research/alexander-of-aphrodisias-eoph (566 words)

	Commentaries on Aristotle
		Alexander's answer (which is different from Aristotle's) is that the thrower makes the air a self-mover for a limited time, and so the air can continue being moved, and hence move the projectile, even after the thrower stops moving it.
		While Alexander's answer is that the primary unmoved mover, not the sphere of the fixed stars, is the cause of the motion of the planetary spheres, Simplicius suggests that the motion of the entire heavens including the planets is a single motion.
		At 1358,18‑1359,4, he praises Alexander for recognizing that in the case of something that is moving ad infinitum (like the sphere of the fixed stars), when we speak of its power or capacity (dunamis) to be moved, we are using the word `power' only homonymously.
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	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.67
		Some parts of the Mantissa are certainly weak and many arguments are shallow, but we must admit that Alexander can show different degrees of acuteness in his argumentation and some variations in depth of analysis.
		"Alexander of Aphrodisias: what is a mantissa?", in P. Adamson et al., eds., Philosophy, Science and Exegesis, London.
		Chapter 22: "Responsibility, chance and not-being (Alexander of Aphrodisias Mantissa pp.179-186 Bruns)", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 27 (1980), 76-94; chapters 22-25: On Fate, London, Duckworth, 1983, p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-07-67.html (1238 words)

	The Rainbow and the dark Alexander Band
		Between these two rainbow arcs there is a dark band called Alexander's dark band as Alexander of Aphrodisias was the first who described this phenomenon.
		Alexander of Aphrodisias was a Peripatetic philosopher and commentator, active in the late second and early third century AD.
		Aristotle wrote extensively on rainbows in his De Meteorologica, and even speculated that a rainbow is caused by the reflection of sunlight from the drops of water in a cloud.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Rainbow.htm (435 words)

	Alexander of Aphrodisias - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These latter include On the Soul, in which Alexander examines the nature of human intellect, and On Fate, a refutation of the Stoic doctrine of determinism.
		Some of the works attributed to Alexander are thought to be spurious.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Alexander of Aphrodisias" at HighBeam.
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	Alexander of Aphrodisias [addendum] \| Encyclopedia of Philosophy
		Alexander of Aphrodisias's influence on Islamic philosophy was far reaching.
		The counterpart of this upward motion is the influence that the contrasting motions of the stars exert on the world of nature.
		But this providence, although emanating from the heavens, is not willed by them, because Alexander postulates that the superior cannot care for the inferior without debasing itself.
	www.bookrags.com /research/alexander-of-aphrodisias-addendum-eoph (380 words)

	Midterm Study Guide
		The Stoics on Fate; Alexander of Aphrodisias On Fate 22.
		Alexander of Aphrodisias On Fate 11-14: Explain what Alexander's position on the problem of determinism and moral responsibility is. Why is he a "libertarian"?
		Alexander of Aphrodisias On Fate 30-31: Explain Alexander's solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge.
	www.uic.edu /classes/phil/phil120/handouts/midtermstudyguide.htm (1239 words)

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		Alexander Hume: 'Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue'
		Alexander of Aphrodisias: on Aristotle: on Sense Perception
		Alexander of Aphrodisias: on Aristotle: Prior Analytics 1.14-22
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		Alexander of Aphrodisias : Supplement to on the Soul (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
		Plotinus' Theory of Matter-Evil and the Question of Substance: Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander of Aphrodisias
		Alexander of Aphrodisias: on Aristotle: Metaphysics 4 (The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
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	ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS - Online Information article about ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS
		eminence, O E rt'p r iS (" the expositor "), was a native of Aphrodisias in See also:
		Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, See also:
		Venice, 1495–1498; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of See also:
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		Todd, 'Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 2.16-3.15', Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9505 URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-9505-todd-alexander @@@@95.5.5, Sharples, trans., Alexander of Aphrodisias R.W. Sharples (trans.), Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 2.16-3.15 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle).
		Reviewed by Robert B. Todd -- University of British Columbia bobtodd@unixg.ubc.ca On confronting this translation, the eighth volume devoted to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, the present reviewer cannot help recalling the scholarly situation that prevailed when he began a doctoral dissertation on this Aristotelian commentator in 1968.
		The last monograph on Alexander had been a these by Paul Moraux published in 1941.
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		A section of the Ethical Problems, another collection of texts attributed to Alexander but probably rather to be taken as evidence for the activity of Alexander himself and his school, bears the same title and advances arguments which are similar to some of those in the mantissa collection.
		For the second solution in Problem 8 answers the other horn of the dilemma, by claiming that the definition of virtue in general does not apply to the individual virtues, and that virtue can therefore after all be a whole of parts.
		F.M. Schroeder, The Provenance of the De Intellectu attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 8 (1997) 105-120, and R.W. Sharples, Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 1.1-2.15, London: Duckworth, 1992, 50 n.126.
	www.units.it /~etica/2000_2/sharples.doc (6276 words)

	Alexander (disambiguation) - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is more than one meaning of Alexander discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
		We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
		This page was last modified 15:58, 15 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexander_(disambiguation) (67 words)

	UCL Department of Greek and Latin: Staff - Bob Sharples
		I was born in 1949 in Beckenham, Kent, and educated at Dulwich College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where I read Classics and began my research; I was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1978 (thesis title: Studies in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias).
		I was a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in 1972-3, and since then have been in the Department of Greek and Latin at UCL as lecturer, Reader in Greek and Latin, and currently Professor of Classics.
		Aristotelian Commentators Series as Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /GrandLat/people/sharples/sharples.html (622 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander of Aphrodisias (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	Rainbows near Sunset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The area between the two rainbows seems to have less light than the area inside the main bow, especially near ground.
		The darker area is called "Alexander's Dark Band," named after the Greek commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias, who wrote about the phenomenon around A.D. Normally the rainbows have more blue and purple than this, and the area inside is more white.
		Since this is almost sunset, the atmosphere already has stripped much of the blue and violet from incoming sunlight before it reached the drops, making less of those colors available to the rainbows and giving a peachy tint to the bright patch within.
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		Alexander of Aphrodisias: on Aristotle: Metaphysics 2 and 3 (The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd)
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	Paper assignment
		Compare Alexander of Aphrodisias' and Boethius' solutions to this problem.
		NOTE: In evaluating and criticizing Alexander's and Boethius' solutions, you should grant the assumption that God exists (or that gods exist).
		Euripides' story of Medea provides an interesting test case for the question of what motivates us to act the way we do.
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	Amazon.com: Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (Philosophia Antiqua): Books: Kevin L. Flannery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.com: Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (Philosophia Antiqua): Books: Kevin L. Flannery
		Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias is intended to give an overview of the logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl.
		Since much of what might be called Alexander's logic is simply Aristotelian logic, instead of engaging in point-by-point analysis, it takes up three themes, one from each of the main areas of traditional logic: the assertoric syllogistic, the modal syllogistic, and the area of metalogical concerns.
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