Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6 9781472552365, 9780715622179

Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6
9781472552365, 9780715622179

Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics, lived in the sixth century A. D. He pr

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Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle’s ideas. It defines nature and distinguishes natura

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Aristotle’s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters

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There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an

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In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quote

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This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time c

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Simplicius’ greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. This

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In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle’s account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief

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Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate caus

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With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics have been publishe

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