
HoP 184 - Robert Wisnovsky on Commentary Culture
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Role of Commentators in Systematizing Philosophy
Commentators are engaged in systematizing the philosophy in the core text. It's quite often the case that philosophers are inconsistent, he says. The job of the commentator is to address issues of consistency between those two texts and show how, in fact, there is an underlying harmony. And we see this, particularly with John Falopanis, for example, and his theory of impetus,.
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