On Aristotle S Physics 4

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
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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 : David Bolotin,Aristotle
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Themistius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : William (of Ockham),Julian Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015016973284

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Ockham on Aristotle's Physics by William (of Ockham),Julian Davies Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chance
ISBN : 0198720262

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Aristotle's Physics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Themistius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015060019778

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On Aristotle Physics 4 by Themistius Pdf

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Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191085307

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Aristotle's Theory of Bodies by Christian Pfeiffer Pdf

Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X000685043

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De Virtutibus Et Vitiis by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ON GENERATION AND CORRUPTION by Aristotle Pdf

OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature. Further, we are to study growth and 'alteration'. We must inquire what each of them is; and whether 'alteration' is to be identified with coming-to-be, or whether to these different names there correspond two separate processes with distinct natures. On this question, indeed, the early philosophers are divided. Some of them assert that the so-called 'unqualified coming-to-be' is 'alteration', while others maintain that 'alteration' and coming-to-be are distinct. For those who say that the universe is one something (i.e. those who generate all things out of one thing) are bound to assert that coming-to-be is 'alteration', and that whatever 'comes-to-be' in the proper sense of the term is 'being altered': but those who make the matter of things more than one must distinguish coming-to-be from 'alteration'. To this latter class belong Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Leucippus. And yet Anaxagoras himself failed to understand his own utterance. He says, at all events, that coming-to-be and passing-away are the same as 'being altered':' yet, in common with other thinkers, he affirms that the elements are many. Thus Empedocles holds that the corporeal elements are four, while all the elements-including those which initiate movement-are six in number; whereas Anaxagoras agrees with Leucippus and Democritus that the elements are infinite.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350285705

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2 by Anonim Pdf

With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1–2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging thing. This volume, part of the groundbreaking Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, translates into English for the first time Simplicius' commentary on this selected text, and includes a brief introduction, extensive explanatory notes, indexes and a bibliography. Previous published volumes translating Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics can all be found in Bloomsbury's series: - On Aristotle Physics 1.3–4, tr. P. Huby and C. C. W. Taylor, 2011 - On Aristotle Physics 1.5–9, tr. H. Baltussen, M. Atkinson, M. Share and I. Mueller, 2012 - On Aristotle Physics 2, tr. B. Fleet, 1997 - On Aristotle Physics 3, tr. J. O. Urmson with P. Lautner, 2001 - On Aristotle Physics 4.1–5 and 10–14, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1992 - On Aristotle on the Void, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1994 (=Physics 4.6–9; published with Philoponus, On Aristotle Physics 5–8, tr. P. Lettinck) - On Aristotle Physics 5, tr. J. O. Urmson, 1997 - On Aristotle Physics 6, tr. D. Konstan, 1989 - On Aristotle Physics 7, tr. C. Hagen, 1994 - On Aristotle Physics 8.1–5, tr. I. Bodnar, M. Chase and M. Share, 2012 - On Aristotle Physics 8.6–10, tr. R. McKirahan, 2001