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This 1999 book demonstrates a method for reading the texts of
Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from
the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyses a group of arguments
that are almost always treated in isolation from one another, and
reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why
these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they
are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The
book establishes the case that we must rethink our approach to
Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts, and as such
will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking amongst
philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.
This 1999 book demonstrates a method for reading the texts of
Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from
the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyses a group of arguments
that are almost always treated in isolation from one another, and
reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why
these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they
are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The
book establishes the case that we must rethink our approach to
Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts, and as such
will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking amongst
philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.
In the fifth century A.D., Proclus served as head of the Academy in
Athens that had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. Proclus
was the last great systematizer of Greek philosophy, and his work
exerted a powerful influence in late antiquity, in the Arab world,
and in the Renaissance. His treatise" On the Eternity of the World
"formed the basis for virtually all later arguments for the
eternity of the world and for the existence of God; consequently,
it lies at the heart of neoplatonic philosophy and the controversy
between pagans and Christians at the end of antiquity.
Proclus's eighteen Arguments were quoted within John Philoponus'
polemic against him, written in the sixth century; but the opening
pages of the sole extant manuscript, which contained the first
Argument, have been lost. In this book, Helen Lang and A.D. Macro
present the seventeen Arguments preserved by Philoponus and
translate them as an independent work. The first Argument, which
survives in Arabic, is also included and makes this the only
complete edition of "On the Eternity of the World" since antiquity.
This bilingual edition comprises the seventeen Arguments (II-XVIII)
in Greek and English, along with an introduction, synopses, and
detailed notes which help readers with or without Greek to
understand them philosophically and historically. Two appendices
complete the volume: the Arabic text of the first Argument, also
with English translation and notes, and the first modern edition of
an important Latin translation from the Renaissance.
In a valuable introduction, Lang and Macro examine the complex
history of these Arguments. Together with its excellent
annotations, and English and Greek texts en face, the publication
of Proclus's "On the Eternity of the World"makes available an
influential work by a major figure in the history of late Greek
philosophy.
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