Author : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,7 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 : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 31,99 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 : David Bolotin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,84 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 : Diana Quarantotto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 24,90 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 : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791410837
This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.
Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,2 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 : Aristoteles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Philosophy of nature
ISBN :
Author : David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199286868
Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.
Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,75 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.
