Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2

✍ Scribed by Stephen Menn (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1–2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing.
This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography.
Previous published volumes translating Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury’s series:

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Halftitle page
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Contents
Conventions
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Principal Philosophers and Mathematicians Discussed
Editors’ Preface
1. Simplicius’ life and work
2. Simplicius’ philosophical aims in his commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics and On the Heaven
3. Simplicius’ methods of commentary and use of earlier commentators
4. Themes of Simplicius’ commentary on Physics 1.1–2
A Note on the Text and Translation
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
English–Greek Glossary
Greek–English Index
Index of Names
Index of Subjects