In this commentary onAristotlePhysics book eight chapters one to five the si...In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus...more
Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the...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...more
Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary onAristotleonPhysics1.5...Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by principle and element in Physics....more
Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority onAristotle s Physics liv...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...more
Aristotle s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof th...Aristotle s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato s...more
Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and t...Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2 as...more
In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics a...In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus Parmenides and Zeno sometimes from their original works but also from later...more
Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle s ideas a...Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle s ideas as well as being the most interesting and representative book in the whole of his corpus. It defines nature and distinguishes natural science from mathematics. It...more
This companion to J. O. Urmson s translation in the same series of Simplicius ...This companion to J. O. Urmson s translation in the same series of Simplicius Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle s Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800...more
Book Six of Aristotle s Physics which concerns the continuum shows Aristotle a...Book Six of Aristotle s Physics which concerns the continuum shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno s paradoxes of...more
Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the...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...more
In this commentary onAristotlePhysics book eight chapters one to five the si...In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus...more
Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary onAristotleonPhysics1.5...Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by principle and element in Physics....more
In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics a...In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus Parmenides and Zeno sometimes from their original works but also from later...more
In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume Aristotle ar...In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius commentary translated here we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the...more