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Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 5 9
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Author : Simplicius,
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 5 9 written by Simplicius, and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
Aristotle argues in On the Heavens 1.5-7 that there can be no infinitely large body, and in 1.8-9 that there cannot be more than one physical world. As a corollary in 1.9, he infers that there is no place, vacuum or time beyond the outermost stars. As one argument in favour of a single world, he argues that his four elements: earth, air, fire and water, have only one natural destination apiece. Moreover they accelerate as they approach it and acceleration cannot be unlimited. However, the Neoplatonist Simplicius, who wrote the commentary in the sixth century AD (here translated into English), tells us that this whole world view was to be rejected by Strato, the third head of Aristotle's school. At the same time, he tells us the different theories of acceleration in Greek philosophy.
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 1 4
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Author : Simplicius,
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 1 4 written by Simplicius, and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Philosophy categories.
In chapter 1 of On the Heavens Aristotle defines body, and then notoriously ruptures dynamics by introducing a fifth element, beyond Plato's four, to explain the rotation of the heavens, which, like nearly all Greeks, Aristotle took to be real, not apparent. Even a member of his school, Xenarchus, we are told, rejected his fifth element. The Neoplatonist Simplicius seeks to harmonise Plato and Aristotle. Plato, he says, thought that the heavens were composed of all four elements but with the purest kind of fire, namely light, predominating. That Plato would not mind this being called a fifth element is shown by his associating with the heavens the fifth of the five convex regular solids recognised by geometry. Simplicius follows Aristotle's view that one of the lower elements, fire, also rotates, as shown by the behaviour of comets. But such motion, though natural for the fifth elements, is super-natural for fire. Simplicius reveals that the Aristotelian Alexander of Aphrodisias recognised the need to supplement Aristotle and account for the annual approach and retreat of planets by means of Ptolemy's epicycles or eccentrics. Aristotle's philosopher-god is turned by Simplicius, following his teacher Ammonius, into a creator-god, like Plato's. But the creation is beginningless, as shown by the argument that, if you try to imagine a time when it began, you cannot answer the question, 'Why not sooner?' In explaining the creation, Simplicius follows the Neoplatonist expansion of Aristotle's four 'causes' to six. The final result gives us a cosmology very considerably removed from Aristotle's.
On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 5 9
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Author : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2004
On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 5 9 written by Simplicius (of Cilicia.) and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 2 1 9
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Author : Simplicius,
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 2 1 9 written by Simplicius, and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The value of Simplicius' commentary on On the Heavens 2,1-9 lies both in its preservation of the lost comments of Alexander and in Simplicius' controversy with him. The two of them discuss not only the problem mentioned, but also whether soul and nature move the spheres as two distinct forces or as one. Alexander appears to have simplified Aristotle's system of 55 spheres down to seven, and some hints may be gleaned as to whether, simplifying further, he thinks there are seven ultimate movers, or only one.
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 10 12
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Author : Simplicius,
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Simplicius On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 10 12 written by Simplicius, and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
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.
On Aristotle S On The Heavens 1 1 4
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Author : Simplicius
language : en
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Release Date : 2002
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On Aristotle S On The Heavens 1 5 9
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Author : Simplici (de Cilícia)
language : en
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Release Date : 2004
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Simplicius On Aristotle S On The Heavens 2 1 9
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Simplicius On Aristotle S On The Heavens 2 1 9 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Cosmology categories.
"Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The value of Simplicius' commentary on On the Heavens 2, 1-9 lies partly in its preserving the lost comments of Alexander and in Simplicius' controversy with him. The two of them discuss not only the problem mentioned, but also whether soul and nature move the spheres as two distinct forces or as one. Alexander appears to have simplified Aristotle's system of 55 spheres down to seven, and some hints may be gleaned as to whether, simplifying further, he thinks there are seven ultimate movers, or only one."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 1 4
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Author : Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2002
On Aristotle On The Heavens 1 1 4 written by Simplicius (of Cilicia.) and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
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On Aristotle On The Heavens 2 1 9
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Author : Simplicius
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2004
On Aristotle On The Heavens 2 1 9 written by Simplicius and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.
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