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aristotle physics greek text: De Virtutibus Et Vitiis Aristotle, 1915 |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties Helen S. Lang, 1992-01-01 This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Book I Diana Quarantotto, 2018-01-11 This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth study of Physics I, the first book of Aristotle's foundational treatise on natural philosophy. While the text has inspired a rich scholarly literature, this is the first volume devoted solely to it to have been published for many years, and it includes a new translation of the Greek text. Book I introduces Aristotle's approach to topics such as matter and form, and discusses the fundamental problems of the study of natural science, examining the theories of previous thinkers including Parmenides. Leading experts provide fresh interpretations of key passages and raise new problems. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as to specialists working in the fields of philosophy and the history of science. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle: The physics I-IV Aristotle, 19?? |
aristotle physics greek text: An Approach to Aristotle's Physics David Bolotin, Aristotle, 1998-01-01 Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention. |
aristotle physics greek text: Commentary on Aristotle's Physics Kenneth W. Thomas, Thomas, Aquinas Thomas, 2003-06-01 No Marketing Blurb |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Joe Sachs, 1995 Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied great books--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics and its Reception in the Arabic World Paul Lettinck, 2021-09-06 Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's Physics, have contributed to philosophy and science in the Middle Ages. It investigates to what extent they influenced one another and to what extent they were influenced by previous Greek commentators. Besides Ibn Bājja's commentary on the Physics, which had up to now only partially been edited, the commentaries of Ibn as-Samḥ, Abū Bišr Mattā, Abū l-Faraj ibn aṭ-ṭayyib and Ibn Rušd are surveyed and discussed. The book also contains an account of an Arabic paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on the Physics, which is of special interest because this commentary was partly lost. A special feature of the book is the edition of the unpublished parts of Ibn Bājja's commentary. |
aristotle physics greek text: Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics Sarah Waterlow, Sarah Broadie, 1988 An investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature as expounded in the Physics. It focuses in particular his conception of change, a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure, with implications that should engage the attention of contemporary analysis. First published in hardback in 1982, the book is now available for the first time in paperback. 'A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics into a neat unitary stucture.' Canadian Philosophical Review |
aristotle physics greek text: Time for Aristotle Ursula Coope, 2005-10-20 What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha Carlos Steel, Oliver Primavesi, 2015-05-15 The 18th Symposium Aristotelicum, dedicated to the first Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics, was held in Leuven from 7th to 13th July 2008.--Pref. |
aristotle physics greek text: Self-Motion Mary Louise Gill, James G. Lennox, 2017-03-14 The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but it is also central to many theories of human agency and moral responsibility. In this collection of mostly new essays, scholars of classical, Hellenistic, medieval, and early modern philosophy and science explore the question of whether or not there are such things as self-movers, and if so, what their self-motion consists in. They trace the development of the concept of self-motion from its formulation in Aristotle's metaphysics, cosmology, and philosophy of nature through two millennia of philosophical, religious, and scientific thought. This volume contains Self-Movers (David Furley), Aristotle on Self-Motion (Mary Louise Gill), Aristotle on Perception, Appetition, and Self-Motion (Cynthia Freeland), Self-Movement and External Causation (Susan Sauvé Meyer), Aristotle on the Mind's Self-Motion (Michael Wedin), Mind and Motion in Aristotle (Christopher Shields), Aristotle's Prime Mover (Aryeh Kosman), The Transcendence of the Prime Mover (Lindsay Judson), Self-Motion in Stoic Philosophy (David Hahm), Duns Scotus on the Reality of Self-Change (Peter King), Ockham, Self-Motion, and the Will (Calvin Normore), and Natural Motion and Its Causes: Newton on the 'Vis Insita' of Bodies (J. E. McGuire). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Mariska Leunissen, 2015-08-27 This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle on How Animals Move Andrea Falcon, Stasinos Stavrianeas, Pantelis Golitsis, 2021-06-24 Critical edition, translation, and extended interpretation of this important work which reveals the operation of Aristotle's methodology. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Alpha Katerina Ierodiakonou, Paulos Kalligas, Vassilis Karasmanis, 2019 Eleven scholars present a collaborative commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics. This text is central to Aristotle's studies of the natural world and the principles of physical change. He formulates his theory on the basis of critical examination of hispredecessors' views, so the book is also a key source for early Greek philosophy. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Chain of Change Robert Wardy, 1990-09-27 The Chain of Change is the first full-scale philosophical commentary devoted to Aristotle's Physics VII, in which Aristotle argues for the existence of a first, unmoved cosmic mover. This study systematically considers the major issues of the book, and argues for the fundamental importance of Physics VII in our understanding of Aristotelian cosmology and natural science. Physics VII is extant in two versions, and therefore poses special editorial problems. For this reason one of the features of Dr. Wardy's study is the provision of an improved text and translation in both versions. The author's comprehensive comparison of their merits, philosophical and philological, has a significant bearing on our understanding of the nature and evolution of the Aristotelian corpus. The second part of the book is devoted to critical examination of the argument, including one of the most elaborate and challenging in the entire Aristotelian corpus. Throughout, the author concentrates on those points where Aristotle diverges most sharply and provocatively from contemporary presumptions in philosophy and natural science. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda Michael Frede, David Owain Maurice Charles, 2000 A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Book Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume is derived. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens Aristotle, 1999-01-01 This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the British Museum in London, 1891. |
aristotle physics greek text: Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics Chelsea C. Harry, 2015-04-25 This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Trial and Death of Socrates Plato, 2012-03-01 Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett. |
aristotle physics greek text: Commentarius in Metaphysica Aristotelis Hermann Bonitz, 1960 |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotleʼs ›Physics‹ VIII, Translated into Arabic by Ishaq ibn Hunayn (9th c.) Rüdiger Arnzen, 2020-11-23 Aristotle's theory of eternal continuous motion and his argument from everlasting change and motion to the existence of an unmoved primary cause of motion, provided in book VIII of his Physics, is one of the most influential and persistent doctrines of ancient Greek philosophy. Nevertheless, the exact wording of Aristotle's discourse is doubtful and contentious at many places. The present critical edition of Ishaq ibn Hunayn's Arabic translation (9th c.) is supposed to replace the faulty edition by A. Badawi and aims at contributing to the clarification of these textual difficulties by means of a detailed collation of the Arabic text with the most important Greek manuscripts, supported by comprehensive Greek and Arabic glossaries. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Physics Aristotle, 1968 |
aristotle physics greek text: Alcibiades I; Alcibiades II Plato, 2022-10-29 Reproduction of the original. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought Barbara Sattler, 2020-10-08 This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle. |
aristotle physics greek text: On the Soul Aristotle, 2018-05-11 '. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its basic thesis, that the soul is the form of an organic body, sets it in sharp contrast with both Pre-Socratic physicalism and Platonic dualism. On the Soul contains Aristotle's definition of the soul, and his explanations of nutrition, perception, cognition, and animal self-motion. The general theory in De Anima is augmented in the shorter works of Parva Naturalia, which deal with perception, memory and recollection, sleep and dreams, longevity, life-cycles, and psycho-physiology. This new translation brings together all of Aristotle's extant and complementary psychological works, and adds as a supplement ancient testimony concerning his lost writings dealing with the soul. The introduction by Fred D. Miller, Jr. explains the central place of the soul in Aristotle's natural science, the unifying themes of his psychological theory, and his continuing relevance for modern philosophy and psychology. |
aristotle physics greek text: Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World , 2022-01-10 This volume—the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation—brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into state-of-the-art contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together, they demonstrate how Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions that benefit interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Aristoteles, 1985 |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion Christopher Byrne, 2018-01-01 Although Aristotle's contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years. They argue that Aristotle never considered the nature of matter as such or the changes that perceptible objects undergo simply as physical objects; he only thought about the many different, specific natures found in perceptible objects. Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion focuses on refuting this misconception, arguing that Aristotle actually offered a systematic account of matter, motion, and the basic causal powers found in all physical objects. Author Christopher Byrne sheds lights on Aristotle's account of matter, revealing how Aristotle maintained that all perceptible objects are ultimately made from physical matter of one kind or another, accounting for their basic common features. For Aristotle, then, matter matters a great deal. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle on Teleology Monte Ransome Johnson, 2005-11-03 Monte Johnson examines one of the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Does it exclude or obviate mechanism, determinism, or materialism? Is it focused on the good of individual organisms, or is god or man the ultimate end of all processes and entities? Is teleology restricted to living things, or does it apply to the cosmos as a whole? Does it identify objectively existent causes in the world, or is it merely a heuristic for our understanding of other causal processes? Johnson argues that Aristotle's aporetic approach drives a middle course between these traditional oppositions, and avoids the dilemma, frequently urged against teleology, between backwards causation and anthropomorphism. Although these issues have been debated with extraordinary depth by Aristotle scholars, and touched upon by many in the wider philosophical and scientific community as well, there has been no comprehensive historical treatment of the issue. Aristotle is commonly considered the inventor of teleology, although the precise term originated in the eighteenth century. But if teleology means the use of ends and goals in natural science, then Aristotle was rather a critical innovator of teleological explanation. Teleological notions were widespread among his predecessors, but Aristotle rejected their conception of extrinsic causes such as mind or god as the primary causes for natural things. Aristotle's radical alternative was to assert nature itself as an internal principle of change and an end, and his teleological explanations focus on the intrinsic ends of natural substances - those ends that benefit the natural thing itself. Aristotle's use of ends was subsequently conflated with incompatible 'teleological' notions, including proofs for the existence of a providential or designer god, vitalism and animism, opposition to mechanism and non-teleological causation, and anthropocentrism. Johnson addresses these misconceptions through an elaboration of Aristotle's methodological statements, as well as an examination of the explanations actually offered in the scientific works. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics Helen S. Lang, 2007-09-24 This book enters into the point of view of the ancient world in order to explain how they saw the world, and to show what arguments were used by Aristotle to support this view. Lang demonstrates a new method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo, and analyzes a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another to reveal their elegance and coherence. She establishes the case that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts. |
aristotle physics greek text: On Sense and the Sensible Aristotle, 2021-04-10 In On Sense and the Sensible, Aristotle delves into the intricate relationship between perception and the material world, exploring the faculties of sense perception and the nature of the objects that are perceived. This seminal work is characterized by its systematic approach, blending empirical observation with rigorous philosophical analysis, offering insights into how humans engage with and interpret sensory experiences. Written during the height of Greek philosophy, Aristotle'Äôs text stands as a cornerstone in the epistemological tradition, influencing subsequent thinkers as he articulates the mechanisms through which knowledge of reality is constructed from sensory inputs. Aristotle, often heralded as the father of Western philosophy, draws from his extensive studies in natural sciences and ethics, as well as his engagement with Platonic thought, to address the dynamics of sensation. His commitment to the empirical method informed his exploration of the senses, asserting that understanding human cognition and perception is essential for grasping the broader spectrum of existence. The work not only reflects Aristotle's intellectual heritage but also his lifelong quest to inquire into the nature of being and knowing. On Sense and the Sensible is a vital read for anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, or the nature of human experience. Aristotle'Äôs meticulous method and profound insights offer timeless relevance, inviting readers to contemplate the complexities of perception and their implications for knowledge. This book is essential for scholars, students, and general readers eager to grasp foundational concepts that continue to resonate in contemporary discussions of perception and reality. |
aristotle physics greek text: The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution David Marshall Miller, Dana Jalobeanu, 2022-01-06 A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's Physics Lindsay Judson, 2023 This collection of essays examines a range of major issues in the Physics and other related works, including method, causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics and the concept of self-motion. |
aristotle physics greek text: Retrieving the Ancients David Roochnik, 2004-06-18 Retrieving the Ancients tells the story of the first philosophers in the West. A clear and engaging introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. Tells the story of the first philosophers in the West, from Thales to Aristotle. Has a strong sense of narrative drive. Treats the history of ancient Greek philosophy dialectically, as a conversation in which each thinker responds to and moves beyond his predecessors. Argues that the works of the ancients are as valuable today as ever. |
aristotle physics greek text: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought Chelsea C. Harry, Justin Habash, 2021 In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by Gottfried Heinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham, Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Christopher Kurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on the philosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics. Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy-- |
aristotle physics greek text: Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics Michael James Bennett, 2019-01-24 In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing critical analysis of his highly original readings of Stoicism, Aristotle, and Epicurus, this book shows that it is Deleuze's interpretations of ancient Greek physics that provide the key to understanding his conception of nature. Using the works of Aristotle, Plato, Chrysippus, and Epicurus, Michael Bennett traces the development of Deleuze's key concepts of event, difference, and problem. Arguing that it is difficult, if not impossible, to fully understand these ideas without an appreciation of Deleuze's Hellenistic influences, Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics situates his commentaries in the context of contemporary scholarship on ancient Greek philosophy. Delving into the original Greek and Latin texts, this book shows that Deleuze's readings are more complex and controversial than they first appear, simultaneously advancing Deleuze as a new voice in interpretations of ancient Greek philosophy. Generating both new critical analyses of Deleuze and a new appreciation for his classical erudition, Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in ancient Greek philosophy, Deleuze's philosophical project or his unique methodology in the history of philosophy. |
aristotle physics greek text: Proclus Lucas Siorvanes, 2019-08-07 Lucas Siorvanes takes the reader through Proclus' metaphysics and theory of knowledge with original research examining all aspects of Proclus' work. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology Jason W. Carter, 2019-03-21 This volume is the first in English to provide a full, systematic investigation into Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories of the soul from the perspective of his theory of scientific explanation. Some interpreters of the De Anima have seen Aristotle's criticisms of Presocratic, Platonic, and other views about the soul as unfair or dialectical, but Jason W. Carter argues that Aristotle's criticisms are in fact a justified attempt to test the adequacy of earlier theories in terms of the theory of scientific knowledge he advances in the Posterior Analytics. Carter proposes a new interpretation of Aristotle's confrontations with earlier psychology, showing how his reception of other Greek philosophers shaped his own hylomorphic psychology and led him to adopt a novel dualist theory of the soul–body relation. His book will be important for students and scholars of Aristotle, ancient Greek psychology, and the history of the mind–body problem. |
aristotle physics greek text: Aristotle's On the Soul Aristotle, 2001 In this timeless and profound inquiry, Aristotle presents a view of the psyche that avoids the simplifications both of the materialists and those who believe in the soul as something quite distinct from body. On the Soul also includes Aristotle's idiosyncratic and influential account of light and colors. On Memory and Recollection continues the investigation of some of the topics introduced in On the Soul. Sachs's fresh and jargon-free approach to the translation of Aristotle, his lively and insightful introduction, and his notes and glossaries, all bring out the continuing relevance of Aristotle's thought to biological and philosophical questions. |
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