Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) - Hardcover

Urmson, J.O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715627651 ISBN 13: 9780715627655

Verlag: Bristol Classical Press, 1997

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Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle’s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle’s works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle.
In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as change: change of relation? The flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines ’continuous’, ’contact’ and ’next’, and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on.
This volume is complemented by David Konstan’s translation of Simplicius’ commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius’ commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.

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J.O. Urmson was Emeritus Professor of Stanford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK and his publications include Philosophical Analysis: its development between the two world wars (1963), The Emotive Theory of Ethics (1968); Berkeley (1982), and Aristotle's Ethics (1988).

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• Verlag: Bristol Classical Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0715627651
• ISBN 13: 9780715627655
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206
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