Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 36,66 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
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : David Bolotin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 14,88 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 : Joe Sachs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,19 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 : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,2 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 : Simplicius
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 1997
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ISBN : 9780801432835
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Physics
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 : Aristotle
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Animal locomotion
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Author : A.R. Lacey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472501810
Book 2 of the Physics is arguably the best introduction to Aristotle's work, both because it explains some of his central concepts, such as nature and the four causes, and because it asks some gripping questions that are still debated today: Is chance something real? If so, what? Can nature be explained by chance, necessity and natural selection, or is it purposive? Philoponus' commentary is not only a valuable guide, but also a work of Neoplatonism with its own views on causation, the Providence of Nature, the problem of evil and the immortality of the soul.
Author : Tony Roark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139497286
Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular, but also worthy of serious philosophical scrutiny. He shows how Aristotle developed an account of the nature of time that is inspired by Plato while also thoroughly bound up with Aristotle's sophisticated analyses of motion and perception. When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th-century philosophers. Roark's novel and fascinating interpretation of Aristotle's temporal theory will appeal to those interested in Aristotle, ancient philosophy and the philosophy of time.
