
Philoponus
On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9
Bristol Classical Press
Published on 26. February 2009
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7156-3787-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the chapters discussed in this section of "Philoponus' Physics commentary" Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts, and sometimes in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7156-3787-6 (9780715637876)
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Person
Catherine Osborne is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.
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Content
Abbreviations
Introduction
Textual Emendations
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Subject Index
Index of Passages
Students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, studying ancient philosophy, Neoplatonist philosophy, Western philosophy and classical studies