Aristotle S Physics

Author : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813521920

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Aristotle's Physics by Joe Sachs Pdf

Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago

Author : David Bolotin,Aristotle
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791435520

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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics by David Bolotin,Aristotle Pdf

Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.

Author : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107197787

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Aristotle's Physics Book I by Diana Quarantotto Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Physics
ISBN : 0198240929

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Physics by Aristotle Pdf

The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chance
ISBN : 0198720262

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Aristotle's Physics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410838

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties by Helen S. Lang Pdf

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

Author : Paul Lettinck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004452459

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Aristotle's Physics and its Reception in the Arabic World by Paul Lettinck Pdf

Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's Physics, have contributed to philosophy and science in the Middle Ages. It investigates to what extent they influenced one another and to what extent they were influenced by previous Greek commentators. Besides Ibn Bājja's commentary on the Physics, which had up to now only partially been edited, the commentaries of Ibn as-Samḥ, Abū Bišr Mattā, Abū l-Faraj ibn aṭ-ṭayyib and Ibn Rušd are surveyed and discussed. The book also contains an account of an Arabic paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on the Physics, which is of special interest because this commentary was partly lost. A special feature of the book is the edition of the unpublished parts of Ibn Bājja's commentary.

Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107031463

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Aristotle's Physics by Mariska Leunissen Pdf

This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.

Author : Kenneth W. Thomas,Thomas, Aquinas Thomas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1843715457

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Commentary on Aristotle's Physics by Kenneth W. Thomas,Thomas, Aquinas Thomas Pdf

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Author : Sarah Waterlow,Sarah Broadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198244827

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Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics by Sarah Waterlow,Sarah Broadie Pdf

This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.

Author : Lindsay Judson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Physics
ISBN : UCAL:B4534500

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Aristotle's Physics by Lindsay Judson Pdf

The Physics is one of Aristotle's masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics in Aristotle's physics, and the concept of self-motion. The essays offer fresh approaches to Aristotle's work in these areas, and important new interpretations of his thought.

Author : Tony Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497282

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Aristotle on Time by Tony Roark Pdf

Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular, but also worthy of serious philosophical scrutiny. He shows how Aristotle developed an account of the nature of time that is inspired by Plato while also thoroughly bound up with Aristotle's sophisticated analyses of motion and perception. When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th-century philosophers. Roark's novel and fascinating interpretation of Aristotle's temporal theory will appeal to those interested in Aristotle, ancient philosophy and the philosophy of time.

Author : Katerina Ierodiakonou,Paul Kalligas,Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192566713

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Aristotle's Physics Alpha by Katerina Ierodiakonou,Paul Kalligas,Vassilis Karasmanis Pdf

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics, a central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge of the principles of physical change. Along with the general introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of the Aristotelian text and discuss the philosophical issues that are raised in it in detail. Aristotle is shown to be in dialogue with the divergent doctrines of earlier philosophers, namely with the Eleatics' monism, with Anaxagoras' theory of mixture, and finally with the Platonist dyadism that posits the two principles of Form and the Great and Small. Aristotle uses critical examination of his predecessors' views as the basis for formulating his own theory of the principles of natural things, which are fundamental for the entire Aristotelian study of the natural world. He provides his own solution to the problem of coming-to-be and passing-away by distinguishing between coming in actuality and in potentiality. Comprehensive analysis of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, will make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle.

Author : David Bostock,Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199286867

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Space, Time, Matter, and Form by David Bostock,Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy David Bostock Pdf

Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.

Author : Robert Wardy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521373271

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The Chain of Change by Robert Wardy Pdf

The Chain of Change is the first full-scale philosophical commentary devoted to Aristotle's Physics VII, in which Aristotle argues for the existence of a first, unmoved cosmic mover. This study systematically considers the major issues of the book, and argues for the fundamental importance of Physics VII in our understanding of Aristotelian cosmology and natural science. Physics VII is extant in two versions, and therefore poses special editorial problems. For this reason one of the features of Dr. Wardy's study is the provision of an improved text and translation in both versions. The author's comprehensive comparison of their merits, philosophical and philological, has a significant bearing on our understanding of the nature and evolution of the Aristotelian corpus. The second part of the book is devoted to critical examination of the argument, including one of the most elaborate and challenging in the entire Aristotelian corpus. Throughout, the author concentrates on those points where Aristotle diverges most sharply and provocatively from contemporary presumptions in philosophy and natural science.