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De Interpretatione: Commented Biography of Euclid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Imre Toth
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It is said that all philosophy is nothing other than a commentary on Plato.

Maybe.

But was not Plato himself a commentary on Parmenides, Heraclitus, the Pythagoreans, and the Sophists, not to mention Socrates?

And conversely, too, the Commentary on Aristotle composed by St Thomas was not the personal philosophy of Thomas Aquinas? Or then again, do Proclus’ Commentarii in primum Euclidis Elementorum librum not embody a new and original neoplatonic philosophy of mathematics?

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 48 , Issue 192 , December 2000 , pp. 3 - 40
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Copyright © ICPHS 2000

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Notes

* A preliminary version of this paper was given to the international conference ‘Philosophy and the Human Sciences at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries’, which took place under the auspices of UNESCO at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici at Naples on 17–18 October 1998, on the fiftieth anniversary of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Françoise Willman for having generously allowed me to benefit from her extensive knowledge and deep awareness during the revision of the last version of this work.

1. I refer the reader to my book (1994), Iparadossi di Zenone nel Parmenide di Platone (Naples: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici).

2. The author makes play here on the German word, Zweifel, ‘doubt': literally, ‘split in two' (translator's note).

3. Imre Toth, Palimpseste: Propos avant un triangle 2000 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France).