Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) - Image 1

£84.15

By Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Essays, Journals & Letters

Price History & Forecast

Last 82 days • 82 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 82 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £43 (42 days, 51.2%)

Price range: £43 - £84

Price levels: 3 different prices over 82 days

Description

Book 3 of Aristotle's Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for his theory of nature: change and infinity. Change is important because, in Book 2, he has defined nature - the subject-matter of the Physics - as an internal source of change. Much of his discussion is dedicated to showing that the change occurs in the patient which undergoes it, not in the agent which causes it. Thus Book 3 is an important step in clearing the way for Book 8's claims for a divine mover who causes change but in whom no change occurs. The second half of Book 3 introduces Aristotle's doctrine of infinity as something which is always potential, never actual, never traversed and never multiplied. Here, as elsewhere, Philoponus the Christian turns Aristotle's own infinity arguments against the pagan Neoplatonist belief in a beginningless universe. Such a universe, Philoponus replies, would involve actual infinity of past years already traversed, and a multiple number of past days. The commentary also contains intimations of the doctrine of impetus - which has been regarded, in its medieval context, as a scientific revolution - as well as striking examples of Philoponus' use of thought experiments to establish philosophical and broadly scientific conclusions.

Product Specifications

Brand: By
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0715626167
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Essays, Journals & Letters
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 January 1994
Listed Since: 15 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

By Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical pearl (1503)

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1–8: General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

T. F. Torrance's Reconstruction of Natural Theology: Christ and Cognition

Platons Timaios Als Grundtext Der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter Und Renaissance = Plato's Timaeus and the Foundations of Cosmology in Late ... and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1, 34)

Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy and Its Value

Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind

Art and Objects

Can Theories be Refuted?: Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis: 81 (Synthese Library, 81)

Daughters of Alchemy (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History): Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy: 17

Handbook of Philosophical Logic: 7

Physics and Our View of the World

Time in Eternity: Pannenberg, Physics, and Eschatology in Creative Mutual Interaction

Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Palimpsests

Personal Identity

The Enchantment Of Urania: 25 Centuries Of Exploration Of The Sky

Instituting Thought: Three Paradigms of Political Ontology

Nikephoros Blemmydes, ›Epitome physica‹: Untersuchungen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung: 6 (Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica, 6)

Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide: 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history

Worldviews, Science And Us: Studies Of Analytical Metaphysics - A Selection Of Topics From A Methodological Perspective - Proceedings Of The 5Th Metaphysics Of Science Workshop

Cross-border Enforcement of Debts in the European Union: Default Judgments, Summary Judgments and Orders for Payment

Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory: Reflections on Bell's Theorem: 2 (Studies in Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values)

Sacred Marriages: A Discourse Analysis (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion)

The Problem of Existence (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)