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Author : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
Release : 2004
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.5-9 by : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
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Author : Simplicius,
Release : 2014-04-22
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12 by : Simplicius,
Download or read book Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12 written by Simplicius,. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Simplicius
Release : 2004
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis On Aristotle on the Heavens 2.1-9 by : Simplicius
Download or read book On Aristotle on the Heavens 2.1-9 written by Simplicius. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Simplicius,
Release : 2014-04-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4 by : Simplicius,
Download or read book Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4 written by Simplicius,. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry. Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth elements, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics. Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's.
Author : Simplicius
Release : 2004
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Book Synopsis On Aristotle's "On the Heavens 2.1-9" by : Simplicius
Download or read book On Aristotle's "On the Heavens 2.1-9" written by Simplicius. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried around us on a transparent sphere. In the Aristotelian view, there are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon, and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which can be destroyed by none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold. It is able only to rotate in a uniform manner. This creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light and, in the case of the sun, heat." "The main value of Simplicius' commentary to On the Heavens 2.1-9 arises from its preservation of the lost comments of Alexander and of the controversy between Alexander and Simplicius. The two of them discuss not only the problem mentioned, but also whether soul and nature move the spheres as two distinct forces or as one. Alexander appears to have simplified Aristotle's system of fifty-five spheres down to seven, and some hints may be gleaned as to whether, simplifying further, he thinks there are seven ultimate movers or only one."--BOOK JACKET.
