{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0732.tlg006.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg006.local001","title":"In Aristotelis topicorum libros octo commentaria","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alexander of Aphrodisias","authorityName":"ALEXANDER Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0732-alexander/","editors":["Maximilian Wallies"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"In Aristotelis topicorum libros octo commentaria","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1891","volume":"2.2","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/pt2commentariain02akaduoft/page/n53/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alexander Of Aphrodisias. In Aristotelis topicorum libros octo commentaria. ed. Maximilian Wallies. In Aristotelis topicorum libros octo commentaria, Berlin, Reimer, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0732.tlg006.local001","excerpt":"Τὴν μὲν πρόθεσιν τὴν τατὰ τὴν τοπικὴν πραγματείαν, καὶ πρὸς πόσα τε καὶ τίνα χρήσιμός ἐστι τῷ φιλοσοφοῦντι ἥδε ἡ μέθοδος, καὶ τί τὸ τέλος αὐτῆς, αὐτὸς λέγει, τὸ μὲν ἀρχόμενος εὐθύς, τὸ δὲ ὀλίγον προελθών, δι᾿ ὧν γνώριμον ποιεῖται ὅτι καὶ τοῖς προηγουμένως φιλοσοφοῦσιν ἀξία σπουδῆς ἡ διαλεκτική, πρὸς τὴν εὕρεσιν τῆς ἀληθείας αὐτοῖς συντελοῦσα, ὃ τέλος ἐστὶ τῆς φιλοσόφου θεωρίας. ἡμάς δὲ καλῶς ἔχει προειδέναι ὅτι τὸ τῆς διαλεκτικῆς ὄνομα οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ σημαινόμενον πάντες οἱ φιλόσοφοι φέρουσιν, ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς ὁριζόμενοι τὴν διαλεκτικὴν ἐπιστήμην τοῦ εὗ λέγειν, τὸ δὲ εὖ λέγειν ἐν τῷ τὰ ἀληθῆ καὶ τὰ προσήκοντα λέγειν εἶναι τιθέμενοι, τοῦτο δὲ ἴδιον ἡγούμενοι τοῦ φιλοσόφου κατὰ τῆς τελειοτάτης φιλοσοφίας φέρουσιν αὐτό· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μόνος ὁ σοφὸς κατ’ αὐτοὺς διαλεκτικός. Πλατῶν δὲ τὴν διαιρετικὴν μέθοδον ἐξυμνῶν καὶ τριγχὸν αὐτὴν φιλοσοφίας λέγων, ταύτης δὲ θέμενος ἔργον εἶναι…","divisions":[{"label":"ALEXANDRI APHRODISIENSIS IN ARISTOTELIS TOPICORUM LIBROS OCTO COMMENTARIA","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-1"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΑΠΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-2"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΤΡΤΤΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΥΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-3"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΗΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΓΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-4"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΠΕΜΙΠΤΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ. 185 ΑΠΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΙΠΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-5"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΖΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ TO EKTON ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ 205 ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-6"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΕΒΔΟΜΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΑΠΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΓΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-7"},{"label":"ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΟΓΔΟΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΠΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΕΙΑΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/#tlg0732-tlg006-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0732.tlg006.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0732/tlg006/local001.json.gz"}}