Themistius On Aristotle Physics 4

Author : Themistius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 161 pages
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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 : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : 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 : Themistius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015060019778

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On Aristotle Physics 4 by Themistius Pdf

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Author : Themistius,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501691

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Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 1-3 by Themistius, Pdf

Themistius' treatment of Books 1-3 of Aristotle's Physics presents central features of Aristotle's thought about principles, causation, change and infinity. The tradition of synthesising and epitomising exegesis is here raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking a selective, but telling, account of the earlier Peripatetic and Presocratic tradition, Themistius creates a framework that can still be profitably used in the study of Aristotle. This volume contains the first English translation of Themistius' commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Richard Sorabji
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Andreas Lammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110546798

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The Elements of Avicenna's Physics by Andreas Lammer Pdf

This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian conception of place against the strident criticism of his predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna’s account of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking into account the entire range of Avicenna’s major writings, this study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in particular.

Author : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015029538223

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On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5, 10-14 by Simplicius (of Cilicia.) Pdf

"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 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's arguement, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Author : Themistius
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210595836

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Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 by Themistius Pdf

Discusses the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. This book covers the central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis.

Author : Philoponus,
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472501714

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14 by Philoponus, Pdf

Philoponus' commentary on the last part of Aristotle's Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle's science, as did his commentary on the earlier parts, concerning place, vacuum and motion in a vacuum. Aristotle's subject here is time, and his treatment of it had led to controversy in earlier writers. Philoponus does offer novelties when he treats motion round a bend as in one sense faster than motion on the straight over the same distance in the same time, because of the need to consider the greater effort involved. And he points out that in an earlier commentary on Book 8 he had argued against Aristotle for the possibility of a last instant of time. This volume contains an English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Author : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : J.O. Urmson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780934259

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14 by J.O. Urmson Pdf

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 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Elisa Coda,Pantelis Golitsis,Melina G. Mouzala,Sotiria A. Triantari,Ilias Vavouras,Gregory S. Paulson
Publisher : ST MAXIM THE GREEK INSTITUTE
Page : 131 pages
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Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9791221306231

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Analogia by Elisa Coda,Pantelis Golitsis,Melina G. Mouzala,Sotiria A. Triantari,Ilias Vavouras,Gregory S. Paulson Pdf

In an attempt to engage with the modern understanding of such a fertile enterprise as Byzantine Philosophy, Analogia offers this first collection of distinguished essays written by promising experts of the younger generation. Table of Contents: 1. Themistius on ‘Prime Matter’, Aristotle, and the ‘Unwritten Doctrines’ ascribed to Plato, ELISA CODA 2. Aristotelian attraction and repulsion in Byzantium, PANTELIS GOLITSIS 3. Simplicius on the principal meaning of physis in Aristotle’s Physics II. 1–3, MELINA G. MOUZALA 4. Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Manuals of Byzantine Rhetoric, SOTIRIA A. TRIANTARI 5. Visions of political philosophy in the ‘Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics’ by Michael of Ephesus, ILIAS VAVOURAS 6. BOOK REVIEWS The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction by Ágnes T. Mihálykó, GREGORY S. PAULSON