MS C189 Text 2
Title: Praedicamenta (also known as Categoriae or Categories)
Author: Aristotle (translated by Boethius)
Language: Latin
Praedicamenta
"[rubric] Incipit liber p[re]dicame[n]to[rum].
[incipit] [E]quivoca dicu[n]t[ur] quo[rum] nom[en] solu[m] co[mmun]e est ...
[explicit] s[ed] q[ui] [con]sueveru[n]t dici pene om[ne]s enum[er]ati s[unt]."
The set of doctrines in the Categories, provides the framework for Aristotle’s philosophical questions
Aristotle frames his categories through 10 different lenses:
- Substance
- Quality
- Quantity
- Relative
- Place
- Time
- Position
- Having
- Acting Upon
- Being Affected
Aristotle
(384 BCE - 322 BCE),
Born: Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece
Died: Chalcis, Euboea
Aristotle was born in 384 BCE, and he lived on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. He moved to Athens in 367 and joined the Academy of Plato, where he stayed for 20 years as Plato’s pupil and colleague. Aristotle wrote on a range of disciplines, from philosophy, rhetoric and ethics through aesthetics, botany and zoology, and into fields such as political science and metaphysics.