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The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD, A Sourcebook - Logic and Metaphysics (Paperback)
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The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD, A Sourcebook - Logic and Metaphysics (Paperback)
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This is the first work to draw on the four hundred years of
transition from ancient Greek philosophy to the medieval philosophy
of Islam and the West. During this period, philosophy was often
written in the form of commentaries on the works of Plato and
Aristotle. Many ideas wrongly credited to the Middle Ages derive
from these centuries, such as that of impetus in dynamics and
intentional objects in philosophy of mind. The later Neoplatonist
commentators fought a losing battle with Christianity, but
inadvertently made Aristotle acceptable to Christians by ascribing
to him belief in a Creator God and human immortality. The
commentators provide a panorama of up to a thousand years of Greek
philosophy, much of which would otherwise be lost. They also serve
as the missing link essential for understanding the subsequent
history of Western philosophy. The second volume of The Philosophy
of the Commentators, 200-600 AD, A Sourcebook, deals with physics.
The physics of the commentators was innovative: the Neoplatonists
thought that the world of space and time was causally ordered by a
nonspatial, nontemporal world, and this view required original
thinking. Of the sixth-century Neoplatonists, Simplicius considered
his teacher's ideas on space and time to be unprecedented, and
Philoponus revised Aristotelianism to produce a new physics built
around the Christian belief in God's Creation of the world. The
thinkers of the Middle Ages borrowed from Philoponus and other
commentators the proofs of a finite past, the idea of degrees of
latitude in change and mixture, and in dynamics the idea of impetus
and the defense of motion in a vacuum. All sources appear in
English translation and are carefully linked and cross-referenced
by editorial comment and explanation. Bibliographies are provided
throughout.
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