Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.10-12 Contributor(s): Simplicius (Author), Hankinson, R. J. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1472557433 ISBN-13: 9781472557438 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Criticism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Science | Astronomy |
Dewey: 523 |
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.47 lbs) 192 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |