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Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8

By Robert B. Todd

Book information

Publisher
Duckworth
Year
2008
ISBN
9781472552471, 9780715636640
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1662587 bytes)
Series
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Pages
\202
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 22:34:17

Description

Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentators capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle’s account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotles physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but was raised to a new level by the innovative method of paraphrase pioneered by Themistius. Taking selective but telling account of the earlier Peripatetic tradition (notably Theophrastus and Alexander of Aphrodisias), this commentator creates a framework that can still be profitably used by Aristotelian scholars today.

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