Alexander Of Aphrodisias On Aristotle On Coming To Be And Perishing 2 2 5

Author : Alexander Of Aphrodisias
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 173 pages
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Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501295

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Coming to be and Perishing 2.2-5 by Alexander Of Aphrodisias Pdf

This important commentary by Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's work on biochemistry was previously lost. However, four chapters of it have been re-identified in an Arabic translation by Emma Gannage and are here translated for the first time. The chapters were preserved in the writings of an eighth-century alchemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan. In addition to preserving an interesting example of very early cross-cultural scientific activity in the Muslim world, the newly discovered material is of philosophical importance: We learn how Alexander attempted to provide a unified theory that would unite Aristotle's chemistry with his elemental physics. As well as an English translation of the text, this volume includes a detailed introduction demonstrating the authenticity of the work and discussing its contribution to our understanding of ancient science.

Author : C.J.F. Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780938684

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Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 1.1-5 by C.J.F. Williams Pdf

The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth. They include a fascinating debate about the atomists' analysis of creation and destruction as due to the rearrangement of indivisible atoms. Aristotle's rival belief in the infinite divisibility of matter is explained and defended against the atomists' powerful attack on infinite divisibility. But what inspired Philoponus most in his commentary is the topic of organic growth. How does it take place without ingested matter getting into the same place as the growing body? And how is personal identity preserved, if our matter is always in flux, and our form depends on our matter? If we do not depend on the persistence of matter why are we not immortal? Analogous problems of identity arise also for inanimate beings. Philoponus draws out a brief remark of Aristotle's to show that cause need not be like effect. For example, what makes something hard may be cold, not hard. This goes against a persistent philosophical prejudice, but Philoponus makes it plausible that Aristotle recognized this truth. These topics of identity over time and the principles of causation are still matters of intense discussion.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199679447

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 45 by Brad Inwood Pdf

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. 'The serial Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) is fairly regarded as the leading venue for publication in ancient philosophy. It is where one looks to find the state-of-the-art. That the serial, which presents itself more as an anthology than as a journal, has traditionally allowed space for lengthier studies, has tended only to add to its prestige; it is as if OSAP thus declares that, since it allows as much space as the merits of the subject require, it can be more entirely devoted to the best and most serious scholarship.' Michael Pakaluk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author : Alexander (of Aphrodisias.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
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Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:83718972

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Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle Metaphysics 5 by Alexander (of Aphrodisias.) Pdf

Author : Ulrich Rudolph,Rotraud Hansberger,Peter Adamson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 864 pages
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Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004492547

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Philosophy in the Islamic World by Ulrich Rudolph,Rotraud Hansberger,Peter Adamson Pdf

A comprehensive reference work covering all figures of the earliest period of philosophy in the Islamic world. Both major and minor thinkers are covered, with details of biography and doctrine as well as detailed lists and summaries of each author’s works.

Author : Themistius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
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Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501554

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Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 by Themistius, Pdf

Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selective but telling accounts of the earlier Peripatetic tradition (notably Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias), this commentator creates a framework that can still be profitably used by Aristotelian scholars today.

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080148989X

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The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Logic and metaphysics by Richard Sorabji Pdf

The third volume of this invaluable sourcebook covers three main subject areas: the metaphysics of Aristotle's logical works; logic; and the higher metaphysics of Neoplatonism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501721

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On the Soul by Anonim Pdf

Around 200 AD, the greatest defender and interpreter of Aristotle within his school, Alexander of Aphrodisias, composed his own book On the Soul, partly following the pattern of Aristotle's. In the first half, translated in this volume, he discusses the soul as the form of the body, and the idea of parts or powers that constitute the soul of living things, including the two lowest powers: nutrition and perception. In the second half, translated in Part II, he discusses perception, representation, desire, understanding and - a notion emphasised by the Stoics - the governing part of the soul. He takes the soul to consist of these powers, which supervene on the mixture of the body's elemental ingredients, just as inanimate powers like buoyancy or lightness can supervene on other qualities. They are new, emergent causal powers of the living thing, which do not belong to the constituent ingredients of the body in themselves. Through his notion of emergence, he seeks to steer between the Platonic dualism of soul and body and the extreme materialism of his Stoic rivals. This volume contains the first English translation of the work, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Author : Alexander (of Aphrodisias.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Dialectic
ISBN : 1350151319

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On Aristotle Topics 2 by Alexander (of Aphrodisias.) Pdf

"Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that might or might not belong to a subject (for instance, Socrates has five fingers, but might have had six), and about properties that simply belong to a subject without further specification. In the present commentary, here translated into English for the first time, Alexander develops a careful study of Aristotle's text. He preserves objections and replies from other philosophers whose work is now lost, such as the Stoics. He also offers an invaluable picture of the tradition of Aristotelian logic down to his time, including innovative attempts to unify Aristotle's guidance for dialectic with his general theory of deductive argument (the syllogism), found in the Analytics. The work will be of interest not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the Middle Ages and later"--

Author : Philoponus,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
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Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501257

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Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming to be and Perishing 2.5-11 by Philoponus, Pdf

Until the launch of this series over ten years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Subjects covered in this, the third and last, volume of translation of this work include: why the elements are four in number; what's wrong with Empedocles' theory of elements; how homogeneous stuffs, particularly the tissues of a living body, come to be and consist of the elements. The volume also contains very important discussions of causes, particularly of efficient cause, and of necessity in the sphere of generation and corruption. It is of interest to students of ancient philosophy and science (the commentary draws on earlier philosophical and medical texts); of Patristics and Christian Theology (it allows comparison of Philoponus' later creationist doctrine with his earlier ideas about generation); of medieval philosophy (this text was known to the Arabs; it is used by Avicenna and Averroes); and to anyone with interest in the metaphysics of causation, emergence, necessity and determinism.

Author : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0801489881

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The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Physics by Richard Sorabji Pdf

Physics in Neoplatonist thought, the subject which occupies the second volume of this sourcebook, was innovative: the world of space and time was causally ordered by a nonspatial, nontemporal world, and this view required original thinking

Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198042663

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Ancient Greek Scholarship by Eleanor Dickey Pdf

Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the manuscript tradition. Now, for the first time, there is an introduction to such scholarship that will enable students and scholars unfamiliar with this material to use it in their work. Ancient Greek Scholarship includes detailed discussion of the individual ancient authors on whose works scholia, commentaries, or single-author lexica exist, together with explanations of the probable sources of that scholarship and the ways it is now used, as well as descriptions of extant grammatical works and general lexica. These discussions, and the annotated bibliography of more than 1200 works, also include evaluations of the different texts of each work and of a variety of electronic resources. This book not only introduces readers to ancient scholarship, but also teaches them how to read it. Here readers will find a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the language, a glossary of over 1500 grammatical terms, and a set of more than 200 passages for translation, each accompanied by commentary. The commentaries offer enough help to enable undergraduates with as little as two years of Greek to translate most passages with confidence; in addition, readers are given aids to handling the ancient numerical systems, understanding the references found in works of ancient scholarship, and using an apparatus criticus (including an extensive key to the abbreviations used in an apparatus). Half the passages are accompanied by a key, so that the book is equally suitable for those studying on their own and for classes with graded homework.

Author : John Philoponus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004339916

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Philoponus on Aristotle's On Coming-to-be and Perishing 1.1-5 by John Philoponus Pdf

The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth. But what inspires Philoponus most in his commentary on these chapters is the topic of organic growth. How does it take place without ingested matter getting into the same place as the growing body? And how is personal identity preserved, if our matter is always in flux, and our form depends on our matter? If we do not depend on the persistence of matter why are we not immortal? Analogous problems of identity arise also for inanimate beings. These topics of identity over time and the principles of causation are still matters of intense philosophical discussion.

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780195170726

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The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 by Michael Gagarin Pdf

Author : E.W. Dooley,Arthur Madigan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780934457

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Metaphysics 2&3 by E.W. Dooley,Arthur Madigan Pdf

Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains. The subject is vital for scientific method and for theological belief in a first cause and in a beginning of the universe. Philoponus later attacked Aristotle on this last point, but Alexander presents Aristotle's view in a most favourable light. In Metaphysics 3, Aristotle sets out what he sees as the central problems of metaphysics. Alexander's commentary was subsequently used by the Neoplatonists, two of whom have left their own commentaries, so that Alexander's Aristotelian interpretation can be compared with its rivals.