On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 Philoponus ; translated by Catherine Osborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philoponus, John, active 6th century, author.

Contributor:

Osborne, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Ancient commentators on Aristotle

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Aristotle. Physics.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 185 pages).

Place of Publication:

London Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 2009.

Summary:

"In the chapters discussed in this section of Philoponus' Physics commentary, Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts, and sometimes in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Contents:

Abbreviations

Introduction

Textual Emendations

Translation

Notes

Bibliography

English-Greek Glossary

Greek-English Index

Subject Index

Index of Passages

Students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, studying ancient philosophy, Neoplatonist philosophy, Western philosophy and classical studies

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement

ISBN:

9781472551962

OCLC:

1138655364