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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">steps</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Шаги/Steps</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Shagi / Steps</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2412-9410</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2782-1765</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-183-196</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">steps-167</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>АНТИЧНЫЙ МИР</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>WORLD OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0812-6789</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Афонасина</surname><given-names>А. С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Afonasina</surname><given-names>A. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Анна Сергеевна Афонасина, кандидат философских наук, доцент</p><p>Высшая школа философии, истории и социальных наук</p><p>236041; ул. Александра Невского, д. 14; Калининград</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Anna S. Afonasina, Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Assistant Professor</p><p>Higher School of Philosophy, History and Social Sciences</p><p>236041; Alexander Nevsky Str., 14; Kaliningrad</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">afonasina@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Балтийский федеральный университет им. И. Канта<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">I. Kant Baltic Federal University<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2024</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>183</fpage><lpage>196</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Афонасина А.С., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Афонасина А.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Afonasina A.S.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/167">https://steps.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/167</self-uri><abstract><p>   В настоящем исследовании предпринята попытка показать, какое влияние может оказывать комментарий на формирование представлений о предшествующей философской традиции. Примером здесь выступает комментарий Симпликия на «Физику» Аристотеля и на фрагменты поэмы Эмпедокла. Выбранный отрывок хоть и мал по размеру, но весьма примечателен в отношении содержания и того, как с ним работает Симпликий. В плане содержания мы имеем здесь дело с одним из фундаментальных проблематичных сюжетов философии Эмпедокла о поочередном правлении Любви и Вражды. Но Симпликий добавляет к этому свое представление о философии Эмпедокла, продиктованное его желанием гармонизировать мнения всех языческих философов и поместить их в одну непротиворечивую схему. Симпликий хотел противопоставить что-нибудь набирающему силу христианству и показать, что вся греческая философия развивалась по определенному пути и не содержит внутренних разногласий. С одной стороны, Симпликий сохранил для нас очень ценный материал — довольно длинные разделы текста поэмы Эмпедокла. С другой — желая осуществить свою программу, Симпликий выбирал те фрагменты поэмы, которые хорошо в нее вписывались. Поэтому встает вопрос, должны ли мы учитывать контекст, в котором процитированы фрагменты, или просто вычленять из общего тела комментария нужные нам фрагменты поэмы Эмпедокла и рассматривать их независимо.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>   The present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem. The selected passage, though small in size, is quite remarkable in terms of content and the way Simplicius deals with it. With regard to content, we are dealing here with one of the fundamental problematic plots of Empedocles’ philosophy about the alternate rule of Love and Strife. But Simplicius adds to this his own view of Empedocles’ philosophy, dictated by his desire to harmonize the views of all the pagan philosophers and place them within a single consistent scheme. Simplicius wanted to counterpose something to Christianity, which was gaining in strength, and to show that all Greek philosophy developed along a certain path and contains no internal disagreements. On the one hand, Simplicius has preserved for us very valuable material — fairly lengthy sections of the text of Empedocles’ poem. On the other hand, wishing to implement his program, Simplicius chose those fragments of the poem that fit well into it. Therefore, the question arises whether we should take into account the context in which the fragments are quoted, or simply extract from the general body of the commentary those fragments of Empedocles’ poem that we need and consider them independently?</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Симпликий</kwd><kwd>Эмпедокл</kwd><kwd>комментаторская традиция</kwd><kwd>любовь</kwd><kwd>вражда</kwd><kwd>неоплатонизм</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Simplicius</kwd><kwd>Empedocles</kwd><kwd>commentary</kwd><kwd>love</kwd><kwd>strife</kwd><kwd>Neoplatonism</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Afonasina, A. S., &amp; Kovalchuk, Χ. S. (2022). Rizōmata — chetyre osnovaniia vselennoi [Rizōmata — the four roots of the universe]. Respublica Literaria, 3(3), 5–18. doi: 10.47850/RL.2022.3.3.5-18. 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