Les "Seconds Analytiques" dans le commentaire de Syrianus sur la "Métaphysique" d'Aristote

"The paper demonstrates the rather ambiguous reception of the "Posterior Analytics" by Syrianus in his commentary on Aristotle's "Metaphysics". First, in his comments on "Metaphysics" III and IV, Syrianus makes positive references to the theory of science from the "Posterior Analytics" and uses it to offer his own solutions to Aristotelian problems. However, when commenting on "Metaphysics" XIII and XIV, Syrianus employs selected passages from the "Posterior Analytics" as a weapon against the anti-Platonic negation of the indipendent existence of mathematical universals that Aristotle endorses there, thus using "Aristotle against Aristotle". In short, according to Syrianus, a Pythagorean-Platonic ontology is better served with an epistemology based on a selection of rules from the "Posterior Analytics" than with Aristotle's actual argument in the "Metaphysics" - with the corollary that Aristotle's criticism of Pythagoras and Plato cannot stand up to his own methodology"