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Aristotle Metaphysics - questions on syntax
Metaphysics, 994b7-9:
ἅμα δὲ καὶ ἀδύνατον τὸ πρῶτον ἀΐδιον ὂν φθαρῆναι: ἐπεὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειρος ἡ γένεσις ἐπὶ τὸ ἄνω, ἀνάγκη ἐξ οὗ φθαρέντος πρώτου τι ἐγένετο μὴ ἀΐδιον εἶναι.
Latin translation:
Simul ...
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Ancient Greek - Adverb functions as Noun
Aristotle's Metaphysics, 994a,26-7:
ἀεὶ γάρ ἐστι μεταξύ, ὥσπερ τοῦ εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι γένεσις, οὕτω καὶ τὸ γιγνόμενον τοῦ ὄντος καὶ μὴ ὄντος
Reeve's translation:
for there is always an intermediate,...
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Non est non ens scire
I was reading Niccolo Cabeo's Philosophia Magnetica (1627), p. 180 and found this line:
...quicquid reclamet Aristoteles: non est non ens scire.
The context is regarding experiments, and how some ...
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Aristotle's Metaphysics - dative as predicate
Aristotle's Metaphysics 981a19-20:
οὐ γὰρ ἄνθρωπον ὑγιάζει ὁ ἰατρεύων ἀλλ᾽ ἢ κατὰ συμβεβηκός, ἀλλὰ Καλλίαν ἢ Σωκράτην ... ᾧ συμβέβηκεν ἀνθρώπῳ εἶναι.
My translation:
For the doctor doesn’t cure a ...
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Why is the phrase "horror vacui" commonly interpreted as "nature abhors a vacuum"?
Why is the Latin phrase: horror vacui commonly interpreted as: nature abhors a vacuum?
It may well be Aristotle's intended message, given the context, but it seems like a bit of a jump. Doesn't it? ...
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«ἐστὶ γνωρίζειν καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς ἐπιστήμης ἀφωρισμένης» (Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.1)
Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.1:
ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀντίστροφος τῇ διαλεκτικῇ: ἀμφότεραι γὰρ περὶ τοιούτων τινῶν εἰσιν ἃ κοινὰ τρόπον τινὰ ἁπάντων ἐστὶ γνωρίζειν καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς ἐπιστήμης ἀφωρισμένης
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Philosophically sound English translation of Duns Scotus's "sed forma non cognoscitur nisi ex operationibus"?
In Libri 1, Quaestio XX, sec. 26, of Duns Scotus's In Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis, Duns Scotus gives expression to a common tenet of a doctrine of the Forms when he writes
[S]ed forma non ...
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About Aristotelian ἐπιχαιρεκακία
In this passage from Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the word ἐπιχαιρεκακία to mean:
joy over one's neighbour's misfortune
My question is, Does ἐπιχαιρεκακία have a Latin counterpart in either ...
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How to say "Double negation affirms by accident"?
I want to know how to say, "Double negation affirms by accident" or "Double negation affirms accidentally." Would it be duplex negatio affirmat per accidens? This is in reference to the idea from ...
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Can you help me with a line from Nicomachean Ethics? (1177b.1)
I think I have the basic sense of this line. But there are a few technical details which stump me.
δόξαι τ᾽ ἂν αὐτὴ [θεωρίᾱ] μόνη δι᾽ αὑτὴν ἀγαπᾶσθαι (Nic. Eth. 1177b.1)
You'll notice that I put ...
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