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Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming to be and Perishing 2.5-11 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming to be and Perishing 2.5-11 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Until the launch of this series over ten years ago, the 15,000
volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written
mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of
extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or
other European languages. Subjects covered in this, the third and
last, volume of translation of this work include: why the elements
are four in number; what's wrong with Empedocles' theory of
elements; how homogeneous stuffs, particularly the tissues of a
living body, come to be and consist of the elements. The volume
also contains very important discussions of causes, particularly of
efficient cause, and of necessity in the sphere of generation and
corruption. It is of interest to students of ancient philosophy and
science (the commentary draws on earlier philosophical and medical
texts); of Patristics and Christian Theology (it allows comparison
of Philoponus' later creationist doctrine with his earlier ideas
about generation); of medieval philosophy (this text was known to
the Arabs; it is used by Avicenna and Averroes); and to anyone with
interest in the metaphysics of causation, emergence, necessity and
determinism.
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