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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Book Six of Aristotle's Physics, which concerns the continuum,
shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism
which forced subsequent Greek and Islamic atomists to reshape their
views entirely. It also elaborates Zeno's paradoxes of motion and
the famous paradoxes of stopping and starting. This is the first
translation into any modern language of Simplicius' commentary on
Book Six. Simplicius, the greatest ancient authority on Aristotle's
Physics whose works have survived to the present, lived in the
sixth century A.D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of
Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over
1300 pages in the original Greek, preserve not only a centuries-old
tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle but also fragments of
lost works by other thinkers, including both the Presocratic
philosophers and such Aristotalians as Eudemus, Theophrastus and
Alexander. The Physics contains some of Aristotle's best and most
enduring work, and Simplicius' commentaries are essential to an
understanding of it. This volume makes the commentary on Book Six
accessible at last to all scholars, whether or not they know
classical Greek. It will be indispensible for students of classical
philosophy, and especially of Aristotle, as well as for those
interested in philosophical thought of late antiquity. It will also
be welcomed by students of the history of ideas and philosophers
interested in problem mathematics and motion.
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