Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on<i> P
On Aristotle Physics 5
β Scribed by Lautner, Peter;Cilicius Simplicius;Urmson, James O
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 206
- Series
- Ancient commentators on Aristotle
- Edition
- Paperback ed. 1. publ
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on.;Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as a change: change of relation? the flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact', and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on. This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Textual Emendations TRANSLATION Notes Bibliography English-Greek Glossary Greek-English Index Index of Passages Cited Subject Index
β¦ Subjects
Physica (Aristoteles);Aristoteles, -- v384-v322. -- Physica 5
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Cover; Contents; Preface; Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8; Translator's Note; Introduction; Translation; Aristotle 5.1; Aristotle 5.2; Aristotle 5.3; Aristotle 5.4; Aristotle 5.5; Aristotle 5.6; Aristotle 6.1; Aristotle 6.2; Aristotle 6.3; Aristotle 6.4; Aristotle 6.5; Aristotle 6.6; Aristotle
Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of anc
Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentators capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotleβs account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will n