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Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 9-11 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 9-11 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In one of the most original books of late antiquity, Philoponus
argues for the Christian view that matter can be created by God out
of nothing. It needs no prior matter for its creation. At the same
time, Philoponus transforms Aristotle's conception of prime matter
as an incorporeal 'something - I know not what' that serves as the
ultimate subject for receiving extension and qualities. On the
contrary, says Philoponus, the ultimate subject is extension. It is
three-dimensional extension with its exact dimensions and any
qualities unspecified. Moreover, such extension is the defining
characteristic of body. Hence, so far from being incorporeal, it is
body, and as well as being prime matter, it is form - the form that
constitutes body. This uses, but entirely disrupts, Aristotle's
conceptual apparatus. Finally, in Aristotle's scheme of categories,
this extension is not to be classified under the second category of
quantity, but under the first category of substance as a
substantial quantity. This volume contains an English translation
of Philoponus' commentary, detailed notes and introduction, and a
bibliography.
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