ABSTRACT
Late antique prolegomena to Aristotelian philosophy situated at the beginning of commentaries on the Categories provide valuable information on the writer’s approach to the study of philosophy as a whole. While Sergius of Reshaina did not adopt the prevailing contemporary form of a prolegomenon consisting of a number of standard questions, the first two chapters of his (still unedited) commentary on the Categories (the first of which has already been published in a French translation) deal with some of the same questions. The current chapter provides a translation and commentary on the second chapter of this work. The commentary not only pays particular attention to the relation of Sergius’ ideas to the late antique Greek commentators on Aristotle, but also draws attention to where he seems to follow Platonic concepts, despite his general lack of interest in the Platonic corpus.
