ON ARISTOTLE'S "ON COMING-TO-BE AND PERISHING 2.5-11"

Philoponus & Inna Kupreeva

ISBN 10: 0801443369 / ISBN 13: 9780801443367

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2005

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 232 pp; Ancient Commentators On Aristotle. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 54471

Inhaltsangabe:

Subjects covered in this, the third and last, volume of translation of this work include: why the elements are four in number; what's wrong with Empedocles' theory of elements; how homogeneous stuffs, particularly the tissues of a living body, come to be and consist of the elements. The volume also contains very important discussions of causes, particularly of efficient cause, and of necessity in the sphere of generation and corruption. It will be of interest to the students of ancient philosophy and science (the commentary draws on earlier philosophical and medical texts); of Patristics and Christian Theology (it allows comparison of Philoponus' later creationist doctrine with his earlier ideas about generation); of medieval philosophy (this text was known to the Arabs; it is used by Avicenna and Averroes); and to anyone with interest in the metaphysics of causation, emergence, necessity and determinism.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ON ARISTOTLE'S "ON COMING-TO-BE AND ...
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine