Simplicius On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Bloomsbury Academic
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
10.04.2014
Verlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSeitenzahl
146
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/0.8 cm
Gewicht
234 g
Übersetzt von
R.J. Hankinson
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4725-5743-8
In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning.
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