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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10–14

By Sarah Broadie

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2011
ISBN
9781472552006, 9780715640883
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
915 kB (937385 bytes)
Series
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Pages
\136
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:47:38

Description

Philoponus’ commentary on the last part of Aristotle’s Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle’s science, as did his commentary on the earlier parts, concerning place, vacuum and motion in a vacuum. Aristotle’s subject here is time, and his treatment of it had led to controversy in earlier writers. Philoponus does offer novelties when he treats motion round a bend as in one sense faster than motion on the straight over the same distance in the same time, because of the need to consider the greater effort involved. And he points out that in an earlier commentary on Book 8 he had argued against Aristotle for the possibility of a last instant of time. This book is in the prestigious series, The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, which translates the works of the ancient commentators into English for the first time.

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