| Author | : David Bolotin |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780791435526 |
Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.
| Author | : Aristotle |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Physics |
| ISBN | : 9780198240921 |
The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.
| Author | : David Bolotin |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780791435519 |
Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.
| Author | : Diana Quarantotto |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2018-01-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107197783 |
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.
| Author | : Joe Sachs |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780813521923 |
Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago
| Author | : Mariska Leunissen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2015-08-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 110703146X |
This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
| Author | : Helen S. Lang |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1998-10-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0521624533 |
In this book Helen S. Lang enters into the point of view of the ancient world to explain how they saw the world and to show what arguments were used by Aristotle to support this view. Lang demonstrates a new method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyzes a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another and reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The author establishes that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts. In so doing, her book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking among philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.
| Author | : Ursula Coope |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2005-10-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191530123 |
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
| Author | : Lindsay Judson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
The Physics is one of Aristotle's masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics in Aristotle's physics, and the concept of self-motion. The essays offer fresh approaches to Aristotle's work in these areas, and important new interpretations of his thought.
