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'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 (Hardcover)
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'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book
12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by
explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr.
argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander
of Aphrodisias, Aristotle's distant successor in early 3rd century
CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of
Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. Robert
Browning had earlier made the case that Michael was enlisted by
Princess Anna Comnena in a project to restore and complete the
ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle, including those of
Alexander; he did so by incorporating available ancient
commentaries into commentaries of his own. Metaphysics Book 12
posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system
Aristotle had elaborated elsewhere as having the earth at the
centre. The fixed stars are whirled around it on an outer sphere,
the sun, moon and recognised planets on interior spheres, but with
counteracting spheres to make the motions of each independent of
the motions of others and of the fixed stars, thus yielding a total
of 55 spheres. Motion is transmitted from a divine unmoved mover
through divine moved movers which move the celestial spheres, and
on to the perishable realms. Chapters 1 to 5 describe the
principles and causes of the perishable substances nearer the
centre of the universe, while Chapters 6 to 10 seek to prove the
existence and attributes of the celestial substances beyond.
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