Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 by Sorabji, Richard

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780715638576)

Vendor: Richard Sorabji
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Format: Hardcover
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 by Sorabji, Richard

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

$220.00
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 by Sorabji, Richard

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

$220.00
Format: Hardcover
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Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by 'principle' and 'element' in Physics. Simplicius' own conception of matter is of a quantity that is utterly diffuse because of its extreme distance from its source, the Neoplatonic One, and he tries to find this conception both in Plato's account of space and in a stray remark of Aristotle's. Finally, Simplicius rejects the Manichaean view that matter is evil and answers a Christian objection that to make matter imperishable is to put it on a level with God. This is the first translation of Simplicius' important work into English.

Author: Richard Sorabji
ISBN-10: 0715638572
ISBN-13: 9780715638576
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2012
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 0.90d
By Richard Sorabji
By Richard Sorabji
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Editor/Translators:
Han Baltussen is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Thought at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the author of Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato: Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus (2000).
Michael Atkinson is a former teacher of Classics at Eton College, UK.
Michael Share is Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania.
Ian Mueller was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.

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