TY  - JOUR
T1  - On the Common Universal Things and That They Are Not Beings by Themselves
AU  - Aphrodısıas, Alexander Of
AU  - Altuner, İ̇lyas
PY  - 2020
DA  - November
JF  - Entelekya Logico-Metaphysical Review
JO  - Entelekya
PB  - İlyas ALTUNER
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2602-3466
SP  - 113
EP  - 118
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Alexander's views on universals are, it seems, quite important in the history of western philosophy. When Boethius gives in his second commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge his solution to the problem of universals as he conceived it, he claims to be adopting Alexander's approach. If true, this means that the locus classicus for all western medieval thinkers on this topic is really a rendering of Alexander's teaching. Alexander commented Aristotle’s statement in his On the Soul “The universal animal either is nothing at all or is posterior if it exists” (402b8), and this commentary has been translated into Arabic several times in the classical period. In this study the anonymous Arabic translations of Alexander’s commentary has been translated into English.
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Alexander
KW  - On the Soul
KW  - commentary
KW  - universal
KW  - animal
CR  - Alexander of Aphrodisias. “Maqāla al-Iskandar al-Afrūdīsī fī al-Ashyā al-ʻĀmmiyya al-Kulliyya wa Annahā Laysat bi-Aʻyān Qāima.” Ar. trans. Anonymous. Zwei Arabische Fassungen der Abhandlung des Alexander von Aphrodisias Über die Universalia. Ed. Hans-Jochen Ruland. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979: 254-9..
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/entelekya/issue//840762
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1448467
ER  -