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In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume, Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side, denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the divine cause that produces the world without beginning.
Product details
- Type:
- Book
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Languages:
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Original:
English
- Number of Pages:
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146
- Publisher:
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Bloomsbury 3PL
- Publication Date:
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2014-04-10
- ISBN / EAN:
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9781472557438
- Weight:
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234 g
- Dimensions:
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16/23/1 cm
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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[email protected]
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