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On Aristotle "Physics 3" (Hardcover)
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On Aristotle "Physics 3" (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Book 3 of Aristotle's Physics primarily concerns two important
concepts for his theory of nature: change and infinity. Change is
important because, in Book 2, he has defined nature - the
subject-matter of the Physics - as an internal source of change.
Much of his discussion is dedicated to showing that the change
occurs in the patient which undergoes it, not in the agent which
causes it. Thus Book 3 is an important step in clearing the way for
Book 8's claims for a divine mover who causes change but in whom no
change occurs. The second half of Book 3 introduces Aristotle's
doctrine of infinity as something which is always potential, never
actual, never traversed and never multiplied. Here, as elsewhere,
Philoponus the Christian turns Aristotle's own infinity arguments
against the pagan Neoplatonist belief in a beginningless universe.
Such a universe, Philoponus replies, would involve actual infinity
of past years already traversed, and a multiple number of past
days. The commentary also contains intimations of the doctrine of
impetus - which has been regarded, in its medieval context, as a
scientific revolution - as well as striking examples of Philoponus'
use of thought experiments to establish philosophical and broadly
scientific conclusions.
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