Simplicius: on Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Baltussen, Han (EDT)/ Atkinson, Michael (EDT)/ Share, Michael (EDT)

Bristol Classical Press（2012/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780715638576
• DDC分類 185

Full Description

In the chapters of his 'Physics' commented on here, Aristotle disagrees with Pre-Socratic philosophers about the basic principles that explain natural changes. But he finds some agreement among them that at least two contrary properties must be involved, for example hot and cold. His own view is that there are two contrary principles at a more abstract level: the form possessed at the end of a change and the privation of that form at the beginning. But there is also a third principle needed to supply continuity - the matter to which first privation and later form belong. Despite the apparent disagreements, Simplicius, the Neoplatonist commentator, wants to emphasise the harmony of all pagan Greek thinkers, as opposed to Christians, on such a basic matter as first principles. He therefore presents not only the Pre-Socratics and Aristotle, but also himself and earlier commentators of different schools as all in basic agreement.

Contents

Introduction Richard Sorabji 1
Conventions 13
Abbreviations 14
Translation: 1.5-6 15
1.5 Han Baltussen 17
1.6 Michael Share and Michael Atkinson 30
Departures from Diels' Text and Bibliography 50
Notes 53
English-Greek Glossary 65
Greek-English Index 71 S
ubject Index 79
Memorial notice 85
Translation: 1.7-9 Ian Mueller 87
Notes 145
English-Greek Glossary 157
Greek-English Index 161
Subject Index 166