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Alexander of Aphrodisias

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Alexander of Aphrodisias

Celebrated peripatetic philosopher and early commentator on Aristotle, from Caria, southwestern Asia Minor.


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According to Piccolomini the mistake of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Galen was that they did not fully realize this.
According to Piccolomini the mistake of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Galen was that they did not fully realize this.
The poets were misusing the mysteries of religion, the Peripatetics -- read "the Paduan Academics," be they the followers of Alexander of Aphrodisias or of Averroes -- were ruining religion by denying the possibility of individual survival, and even by betraying Aristotle whose religious meaning had just been revealed to the learned world through the Latin translation of Themistius's paraphrases made by Ermolao Barbaro in 1481.
 
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