Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8

Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8
Author: Themistius,
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501551

Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selective but telling accounts of the earlier Peripatetic tradition (notably Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias), this commentator creates a framework that can still be profitably used by Aristotelian scholars today.

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void
Author: J.O. Urmson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501829

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.

On Aristotle Physics 5-8

On Aristotle Physics 5-8
Author: John Philoponus
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.

On Aristotle's Physics 5-8

On Aristotle's Physics 5-8
Author: John Philoponus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Paul Lettnick (Semitic languages, Free U., Amsterdam) has reconstructed Philoponus' commentary on Aristotle by translating it from annotations to an Arabic translation of the Physics itself; only fragments of the commentary are extant. J.O. Urmson (philosophy, Stanford U.) translates the commentary by Simplicius on Aristotle's view of the void. The two were rival neoplatonists writing in Greek in the sixth century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Aristotle's Physics

Aristotle's Physics
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.

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 8.1-5
Author: István Bodnár
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501799

In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers, provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus' Against Aristotle On the Eternity of the World, and makes extensive use of the lost commentary of Aristotle's leading defender, Alexander of Aphrodisias. This volume contains an English translation of Simplicius' important commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5
Author: Keimpe Algra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501772

Aristotle's account of place, in which he defined a thing's place as the inner surface of its nearest immobile container, was supported by the Latin Middle Ages, even 1600 years after his death, though it had not convinced many ancient Greek philosophers. The sixth century commentator Philoponus took a more common-sense view. For him, place was an immobile three-dimensional extension, whose essence did not preclude its being empty, even if for other reasons it had always to be filled with body. However, Philoponus reserved his own definition for an excursus, already translated in this series, The Corollary on Place. In the text translated here he wanted instead to explain Aristotle's view to elementary students. The recent conjecture that he wished to attract young fellow Christians away from the official pagan professor of philosophy in Alexandria has the merit of explaining why he expounds Aristotle here, rather than attacking him. But he still puts the students through their paces, for example when discussing Aristotle's claim that place cannot be a body, or two bodies would coincide. This volume contains an English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

A Vocabulary of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Author: Richard D. McKirahan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350250457

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000 entries. It forms in effect a unique dictionary of philosophical terms from the post-Hellenistic period through to late antiquity and will be an essential reference tool for any scholar working on the meaning of these ancient texts. As traditional dictionaries have usually neglected to include translation examples from philosophical texts of this period, scholars interested in how meanings of words vary across time and author have been ill served. This index fills a huge gap, therefore, in the lexical analysis of ancient Greek and has application well beyond the reading of ancient philosophical commentaries. Bringing together the full indexes from 110 of the volumes published in Bloomsbury's Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, McKirahan has combined each word entry and analysed how many times particular translations occur. He presents his findings numerically so that each meaning in turn has a note as to the number of times it is used. For meanings that are found between one and four times the volume details are also given so that readers may quickly and easily look up the texts themselves.

Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12

Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12
Author: Yoav Meyrav
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350127264

This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle. Though the Greek text itself is lost, a full English translation is presented here for the first time, based on Arabic versions of the Greek and a Hebrew version of the Arabic. In his commentary Themistius offers an extensive re-working of Aristotle, confirming that the first principle of the universe is indeed Aristotle's God as intellect, not the intelligibles thought by God. The identity of intellect with intelligibles had been omitted by Aristotle in Metaphysics 12, but is suggested in his Physics 3.3 and On the Soul 3, and later by Plotinus. Laid out here in an accessible translation and accompanied by extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes, the work will be of interest for students and scholars of Neoplatonist philosophy, ancient metaphysics, and textual transmission.