Events

On December 19, professor of Ilia state university, Tamar Tsopurashvili and assistant-researcher Ana Lomadze delivered a public lecture on the topic “The Georgian Language Reception of Aristotle”.

They talked about Georgian translations of Aristotle’s “Peri Hermeneias” and its commentaries. These texts were translated in XVIII century and now belong to Georgian National center of manuscripts. Savle Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy works on publishing critical edition of these works.

Aristotle’s “Peri Hermeneias” played a great role in developing philosophy of language and theory of language. There are many commentaries about this work. One of the prominent commentaries belongs to Boethius. The research process also involves comparing “Peri hermeneias” commentaries’ Georgian translations to its Latin commentaries.