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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12 (Paperback, Nippod)
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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.10-12 (Paperback, Nippod)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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In the three chapters of On the Heavens dealt with in this volume,
Aristotle argues that the universe is ungenerated and
indestructible. In Simplicius' commentary, translated here, we see
a battle royal between the Neoplatonist Simplicius and the
Aristotelian Alexander, whose lost commentary on Aristotle's On the
Heavens Simplicius partly preserves. Simplicius' rival, the
Christian Philoponus, had conducted a parallel battle in his
Against Proclus but had taken the side of Alexander against Proclus
and other Platonists, arguing that Plato's Timaeus gives a
beginning to the universe. Simplicius takes the Platonist side,
denying that Plato intended a beginning. The origin to which Plato
refers is, according to Simplicius, not a temporal origin, but the
divine cause that produces the world without beginning.
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