Author : David Bolotin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791435526
Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198240921
The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.
Author : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107197783
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science.
Author : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813521923
Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago
Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 110703146X
This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
Author : David Bolotin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780791435519
Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.
Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191530123
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
Author : Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319178342
This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time.
Author : Lindsay Judson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The Physics is one of Aristotle's masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics in Aristotle's physics, and the concept of self-motion. The essays offer fresh approaches to Aristotle's work in these areas, and important new interpretations of his thought.
Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 1998-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521624533
In this book Helen S. Lang enters into the point of view of the ancient world to explain how they saw the world and to show what arguments were used by Aristotle to support this view. Lang demonstrates a new method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyzes a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another and reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The author establishes that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts. In so doing, her book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking among philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.
