Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 1.1-2.15 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) – R.W. Sharples Koopje

The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle, are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence. They exemplify the process by which Aristotle’s thought came to be organised into ‘Aristotelianism’, and show how interpretations were influenced by the doctrines of Hellenistic philosophy. Some of them, translated into Arabic and thence into Latin, played a part in the transmission of ancient Greek philosophy to the medieval worl…