r/askphilosophy • u/UntitledBridger • 14h ago

Aristotle Commentators

Who are the towering commentators of Aristotle's complete corpus in the last 50 or so years? I'm looking for something extremely in-depth, similar to the Baker and Hacker's commentaries on the Philosophical Investigations.

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u/faith4phil Ancient phil. 13h ago

To be honest, I think you shouldn't look for this. The whole corpus Aristotelicum spans two pretty hefty volumes... a commentary of all of that? That would be HUGE. You should see how big certain commentaries on even just a single chapter of Aristotle are... Plus, there is no reason to assume that the best commentator for EN is the best commentator for PA, since they're wildly different works!

Rather, read an intro to Aristotle and then the most important (or most interesting to you) works with some commentary on those works. If you tell us which works of Aristotle you're interested in, we can tell you which commentator is best.

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u/UntitledBridger 7h ago

Specifically the categories

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u/faith4phil Ancient phil. 4h ago

Ackrill's commentary for Clarendon has both a translation and a commentary of Catrgories and De interpretatione. I'd also give a look at the SEP page on Aristotle's categories.

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