Simplicius: on Aristotle physics 1́€ô8 : general introduction to the 12 volumes of translations.

Format:

Book

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Physics.

Aristotle.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Science, Ancient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics , published between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary. It covers the philosophical aims of Simplicius' commentaries on the Physics and the related text On the Heaven ; Simplicius' methods and his use of earlier sources; key themes and comparison with Philoponus' commentary on the same text. In the first chapters of his work, 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. By 1.7, Aristotle reaches the conclusion that we must distinguish one substratum and two contrary states that it may possess: a form and a privation of that form. But this only foreshadows what is to follow. In book 2, Aristotle introduces four kinds of explanatory factor: besides the material substratum of a thing and its form, there is its function or purpose, and the efficient cause of its taking on new forms. He goes on in Books 3 to 8 to discuss causation, chance and necessity, motion, infinity, vacuum, spatial relations and the continuum and he postulates the need for a divine first mover as the source of purposive motion in celestial bodies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Principal Philosophers and Mathematicians Discussed Introduction

1. Simplicius and his Physics Commentary

2. Simplicius' Philosophical Aims in his Commentaries on the Physics and On the Heaven

3. Simplicius' Commentary-Methods and his Use of Earlier Sources

4. Themes of Simplicius' Commentary on Physics 1.1-2, and Comparison with Philoponus

5. The Text of Simplicius and our Translation Appendix: Hippocrates' Constructions Notes

Bibliography

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350286658

9781350286641

OCLC:

1295394257

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.