On Aristotle Physics 4

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530128

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Time for Aristotle by Ursula Coope Pdf

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : 40,7 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 : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199247905

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Time for Aristotle by Ursula Coope Pdf

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion.Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for itsexistence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chance
ISBN : 0198720262

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Aristotle's Physics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X000685043

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De Virtutibus Et Vitiis by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Themistius
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015060570325

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On Aristotle's "Physics 4" by Themistius Pdf

"Aristotle's conception of place as surroundings makes it problematic how his outermost sphere, which carries the stars, can have any place, given that it has no surroundings. Themistius suggests various solutions, including treating the inner spheres as surroundings." "Turning to time, Themistius again reveals Galen's objections to Aristotle and defends Aristotle from the charge of giving a circular definition of time. On the other hand, Themistius criticizes Aristotle for saying that there would be no time if there were no soul. Most of these points were debated by later commentators."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Themistius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501059

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Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 4 by Themistius, Pdf

Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist, not only a philosopher, and he thought that only paraphrases of Aristotle were needed, because there were already such comprehensive commentaries. Nonetheless, his paraphrastic commentaries are full of innovative comment. According to Aristotle, there is no such thing as 3-dimensional space. A thing's exactly-fitting place is a surface, the inner surface of its immediate surroundings. One problem that this created was that the outermost stars, in Aristotle's view, have no surroundings, and so no place. Themistius suggests that we might think instead of the neighbouring bodies which they surround as providing their place. Aristotle saw time as something countable, and concluded that it depends for its existence on that of conscious beings to do the counting. Themistius is in the minority among commentators in disagreeing. Themistius concurs with Aristotle in denying the existence of vacuum. We cannot think that a space formerly empty of body penetrates right through a body inserted into it. If one extension could penetrate another, says Themistius, a body could penetrate a body, because bodies occupy places solely in virtue of being extended.

Author : Themistius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015060019778

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On Aristotle Physics 4 by Themistius Pdf

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Author : Aristotle,David Keyt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198235925

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Politics by Aristotle,David Keyt Pdf

This reissue of Robinson's classic volume on Books III and IV of the Politics is brought up-to-date by a new supplementary essay and bibliography.

Author : Katerina Ierodiakonou,Paul Kalligas,Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Tony Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.