John Pagus on Aristotle’s Categories

Extensive study of one of the first extant thirteenth-century commentaries on aristotle's categories.

The Rationes super Praedicamenta Aristotelis of John Pagus is one of the earliest known literary products of the Arts Faculty of the University of Paris. Written in the 1230s, it is among the first extant commentaries on Aristotle's Categories and reflects a period in which philosophers had already absorbed the full range of Aristotle's logical writings and were becoming increasingly familiar with his physical and metaphysical works. The present volume contains the first full critical edition of the text, preceded by an extensive introductory study consisting of two parts. The first part describes the life and work of John Pagus, the manuscript sources, formal features, authoritative sources, and date of his commentary, as well as its relationship to other known commentaries from the period. The second part is devoted to an analysis of some of the key features of Pagus' interpretation of the categories. The author takes account of Pagus' systematic construal of Aristotle's text, focusing particular attention on his position on perennial issues such as what categories are, which categories there are, what sort of items they collect, whether or not they can overlap, and the relationship between logical and metaphysical categories. To more appreciate and understand Pagus' approach, the volume also pays considerable attention to the views of his near-contemporaries Nicholas of Paris and Robert Kilwardby.

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"John Pagus on Aristotle’s Categories" was edited by Heine Hansen.

Heine Hansen has studied classics at the University of Copenhagen and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sydney (2010). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

Yes, "John Pagus on Aristotle’s Categories" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 45 in the series.

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Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Preface

PART ONE INT RODUCTORY ST UDY

Chapter One The Author and his Work

Introduction: Logic in the Thirteenth Century

1 John Pagus: Life and Works
1.1 Life
1.2 Works

2 The Commentary on the Categories
2.1 Manuscript Sources
2.2 Formal Features
2.3 Authoritative Sources
2.4 Contemporary Commentaries
2.5 Date of Composition

Chapter Two Pagus' Interpretation of the Categories

Introduction: Aristotle's Categories

1 The Categories and Logic
2 The Subject Matter of the Categories
3 The Notion of a Category
4 Equivocals, Univocals, Denominatives
5 The Ontological Square
6 The Antepredicamental Rules
7 The Content of the Category System
8 Substance
9 Accidents

Appendix Stylistic Comparison of the Commentaries in MS Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria 1589

PART TWO EDITION

Chapter Three Editor's Preface

1 Ratio edendi
2 Sigla et Compendia

Chapter Four John Pagus: Rationes super Praedicamenta Aristotelis

1 Aequivoca dicuntur etc. (1.1a1)
2 Univoca dicuntur etc. (1.1a7)
3 Denominativa dicuntur etc. (1.1a13)
4 Eorum quae sunt alia sunt in subiecto etc. (2.1a20)
5 Quando autem alterum de altero etc. (3.1b10)
6 Eorum quae secundum nullam complexionem dicuntur etc. (4.1b25)
7 Substantia est quae proprie etc. (5.2a12)
8 Manifestum est autem etc. (5.2a19)
9 Secundarum vero substantiarum etc. (5.2b7)
10 Merito autem post principales etc. (5.2b30)
11 Commune est autem etc. (5.3a7)
12 Inest autem substantiis etc. (5.3a33)
13 Inest autem substantiis etc. (5.3b25)
14 Maxime vero etc. (5.4a10)
15 Sed et si quis hoc suscipiat (5.4a27)
16 Quantitatis autem etc. (6.4b20)
17 Partium etenim numeri (6.4b26)
18 Linea vero continua est (6.5a1)
19 Amplius quidem (6.5a15)
20 Proprie autem quantitates (6.5a39)
21 Amplius quantitati nihil est contrarium (6.5b12)
22 Amplius si magnum et parvum (6.5b33)
23 Sed non videtur quantitas suscipere (6.6a20)
24 Ad aliquid vero talia dicuntur (7.6a36)
25 Inest autem contrarietas (7.6b15)
26 Omnia autem relativa ad convertentiam dicuntur (7.6b27)
27 Omnia ergo quae ad aliquid dicuntur (7.7a22)
28 Videtur autem ad aliquid simul esse natura (7.7b15)
29 Habet autem quaestionem utrum nulla substantia (7.8a14)
30 Ex his ergo manifestum est (7.8a35)
31 Qualitatem autem dico etc. (8.8b25)
32 Aliud vero genus qualitatis (8.9a14)
33 Tertia vero species qualitatis etc. (8.9a28)
34 Quoniam ergo fiunt per aliquam etc. (8.9b12)
35 Quartum vero genus (8.10a11)
36 Inest autem contrarietas secundum quod quale etc. (8.10b12)
37 Triangulus vero etc. (8.11a5)
38 Suscipit autem facere et pati etc. (9.11b1)
39 Quotiens autem solet opponi etc. (10.11b17)
40 Quorum vero non est necessarium etc. (10.12a9)
41 Non est autem neque quod sub affirmatione etc. (10.12b5)
42 In privatione vero et habitu etc. (10.13a3)
43 Quaecumque vero ut affirmatio et negatio (10.13a37)
44 Contrarium autem etc. (11.13b36)
45 Prius autem quadrupliciter dicitur etc. (12.14a26)

Appendix Anonymus Patavinus: Commentarii in Praedicamenta Aristotelis fragmentum

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index Quaestionum