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9780715638576

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

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  • ISBN13:

    9780715638576

  • ISBN10:

    0715638572

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-08-30
  • Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr

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Summary

Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. He 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, he 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Textual Emendations
TRANSLATION
Notes
Bibliography
English-Greek Glossary
Greek-English Index
Index of Passages Cited
Subject Index

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